Club 152
Beale Street
Memphis TN
2014

Tri-level dance club with bands, DJs & pub grub drawing young crowds until the wee hours.

If there's a must-experience dance club in Memphis, Club 152 may just be it. With three floors of dance space, each with its own vibe, there's virtually something for every dance taste. The first floor offers either live music or DJs spinning true dance tracks from the 70's through today; depending on the night, live music starts the evening and then the DJ steps in for the late night crowd. The first floor is open nightly, while the other two floors are open on Friday and Saturday nights only. Floor two focuses on mainstream hip hop and old school jams, and later in the evening is truly crunk; the vibe is dark, hip lounge with an all-female staff. Floor three is funk-a-licious, no-holds-barred fun, with giant video screens and mirrored walls, and this is where inhibitions (and sometimes jaws) drop.


Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles. It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of blues music.

http://www.bealestreet.com/history

Beale Street was built on memories – good and bad.

Beale Street’s heyday was in the roaring 20′s, when it took on a carnival atmosphere. The booming nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, stores, pawnshops and hot music thrived alongside gambling, drinking, prostitution, murder and voodoo.

In the early evenings, boxback suits and Stetson hats mingled with overalls.

Young ladies sashayed down Beale Street and inside the bars, gamblers waited for an easy mark to stroll in. If the mark escaped from the dice or the cards, maybe he would fall victim to Little Ora – always ready to prove her reputation as the best pickpocket between New Orleans and St. Louis. Maybe he’d just stop over at PeeWee’s and visit with the musicians, play a little pool, or secure the voodoo protection of Mary the Wonder.