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All Music, All Day

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Our last day in Memphis and all we need to do was: eat at the Arcade; go to STAX, Sun, Gibson factory tour, Rock and Soul Museum; take a soda counter break; eat more BBQ; find some great donuts.  If you follow our travels, you will not be surprised to find out we managed to almost do it all. In the immortal words of Alexander Hamilton, "Let's Go." Rockabilly Brandon told us we really need to go to t he Arcade , Memphis's longest running restaurant (since 1919), and who were we to refuse?   The Arcade has been featured in many movies.  At one point, Ned realized that he was in the same restaurant where Joe Strummer ate!  You'll see it again in the CMT Million Dollar Quartet or in the next TNT rerun of Walk the Line. We did have a bit of a wait since we hit the Arcade at high brunch on a Saturday.  Ned and Penn discovered a print shop next door that was devoted solely to sci-fi and fantasy.  I discovered a bookstore that also sold some