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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – On this day in 1969, a new entertainment district soon known as Overton Square was unveiled one day after voters approved liquor-by-the-drink.<\/p>\n

Modeled after hotspots in New York and San Francisco, the district officially opened in 1970 with TGI Friday\u2019s and later grew into a hub featuring Bombay Bicycle Club, Paulette\u2019s, Lafayette\u2019s Music Room and more.<\/p>\n

After decline in the 1980s and preservation battles in the 2000s, Loeb Properties transformed it into a modern theater arts district in 2011.<\/p>\n

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – On this day in 1969, a new entertainment district soon known as Overton Square was unveiled one day after voters approved liquor-by-the-drink. Modeled after hotspots in New York and San Francisco, the district officially opened in 1970 with TGI Friday\u2019s and later grew into a hub featuring Bombay Bicycle Club, Paulette\u2019s, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[419501,22188,419500,419505,310401,404307,419496,21741,419499,419495,419506,351467,419494,419498,419497,385429,419504,306217,419502,419507,419503,382712,419491,419493,419492],"class_list":["post-2179078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bartlett","tag-breaking-news","tag-collierville","tag-days","tag-district","tag-drink","tag-east-arkansas","tag-entertainment","tag-germantown","tag-i-40","tag-liqour","tag-memphis","tag-mid-south","tag-missouri-boothill","tag-north-mississippi","tag-olive-branch","tag-overton-square","tag-severe-weather","tag-southaven","tag-the-drink","tag-west-memphis","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wmc-action-news-5","tag-wmc5","tag-wmctv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179079,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179078\/revisions\/2179079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}