Many of our Nashville 24/7 readers don't live in Middle or West Tennessee, so it's likely they're unaware that the city of Memphis has its own Pyramid, a 20,142-seat arena located in downtown Memphis at the banks of the Mississippi River. Memphis' pyramid is, in fact the sixth largest in the world. But the arena has not seen much activity since 2004 and in 2009 the Shelby County Commission sold its share of the structure to the City of Memphis.
Now an agreement has been reached with Bass Pro Shops to turn the Pyramid into a outdoor goods outlet. It is left as an exercise for the reader to determine whether - when the Mississippi floods - piranha fish will be released into the river. Just the thing the Gulf needs right now, but we digress.
A focus of concern is the only sanctioned copy of a statue of Ramesses the Great that stands in front of the main entrance to the venue.
If you have not yet started the video at the head of this story, now's a good time to do it because as with all major developments that displace somewhat historical items, hilarity ensues.
Here at Nashville 24/7 we have some ideas of our own as to where Ramesses might find a place of comfort and repose, locals will need no explanation.
For our other readers, these pictures are captioned "When I was your age I wore clothes (the controversial statue "Musica" on Music Row);" "Hi Honey, I'm Home!! (Athena, at Nashville's Parthenon, wondering why she ever let this guy through the door)" and the embodiment of Mason Williams' "Them Poem:" "Them banjo pickers, straight-faced mugs, they don't say nothin' they just play Scruggs!"
