25 Feb 07
Roaming RD.jpg
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25 Feb 07
Resting RD
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25 Feb 07
Reclining RD
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6 Jan 06
visiting another cache Roaming RD visited in the area of the fountain and sat in a sleigh by another cache.
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6 Jan 06
Worlds Tallest Fountain Roaming RD visiting "Worlds Tallest Fountain" in Fountain Hills AZ. He made the trip here from IN and Il with no apparent jet lag.
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4 Dec 05
Home of the Fighting Irish RD in front of the famous Notre Dame Golden Dome.
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28 Feb 05
Pavilion at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital When his career as a comedian was on the ropes, the late Danny Thomas prayed to St. Jude for intercession on his behalf and pledged a great gift if he were to be successful. He was successful, and his great gift was founding, financing and fund raising for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which provides free care for desparately ill children. The pavilion with the gold dome is a visitor's center that tells the story of the nearby hospital and its founder.
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28 Feb 05
Roamin RD views Graceland from a perch on the wall You didn't think we were going to miss this did you?
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28 Feb 05
Roamin' RD is in an "Ooby Dooby" mood. Sam Phillips who operated the Sun Record Studio, shown here, had much to do with the birth of rock and roll. Artists who recorded at this studio included Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison.
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28 Feb 05
Roamin' RD thinks he might be a Soul Man The now-reconstructed Stax Records studio, in its heyday recorded a number of soul artists and groups with a unique Memphis sound. These including the following Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members: Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Booker T and the MGs.
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28 Feb 05
Where Doctor Martin Luther King was slain. Reindeer RD pensively stares at the motel balcony made infamous by an assassin's bullet. Dr. King was a martyr to the cause that won him a Nobel Peace Prize. Was it a prophet, or just an engineer, who laid out the streets of South Memphis 160 years ago and named one -- now just behind the Lorraine Motel --- Saint Martin Street?
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28 Feb 05
Fedex Forum --- The Newest NBA Arena The Fedex Forum is the home of the Memphis Grizzlies of the MBA and the Memphis Tigers of Conference USA. Directly to the right of our roaming reindeer is the Gibson guitar factory.
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28 Feb 05
Roaming RD enjoys Beale Street ambiance. Directly behind the little guy in this picture is BB King's night club.
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28 Feb 05
Hannibal Lector Venue? In the movie Silence of the Lambs, the story put the psychopathic killer Hannibal Lector in a specially constructed detention facility in Memphis. If I had to pick a place where this could have happened, it would be here, the old Shelby County jail, now renovated for office use.
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28 Feb 05
On Location: The Client Tommy Lee Jones played a scene here for the movie: The Client. This is the entrance to the Clifford Davis Federal Building in downtown Memphis. Between the Federal Building and City Hall is a courtyard of flags, also shown here, remembering the various nations whose arts and crafts have been featured at the City's annual Memphis in May Festival.
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28 Feb 05
On Location: "Cast Away" Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt filmed some scenes here for the move "Cast Away"
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28 Feb 05
On Location: "The Firm" Tom Cruise and Jeanne Tripplehorn filmed scenes here for the movie "The Firm".
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19 Aug 03
Benjamin Hardin Helm Benjamin Hardin Helm was the son of John Larue Helm. Helm was a rising young lawyer of Louisville when the Civil War started. He rose to the rank of grigader-general for the southern cause and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. He was the commander of the Orphan Brigade, 1st Kentucky Cavalry.
The ist kentucky Cavalry was the oldest regiments in Confederate service.
Benjamin Harden helm was it first commander, helm was the brother-in-law of Union president Abraham Lincoln.
Its men were the first kentucky cavalerymen to respond to the call for service to the Confederate States.
The 1st Ky served to the very end, as President Jeffersons Davis guard when he was captured in Georgia.
Served with the Army of Tennessee under Joseph Wheeler and Gen Nathan Bedford Forest.
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19 Aug 03
John Larue Helm John Larue Helm was the Grandson of Thomas Helm. He was a governer of Kentucky, speaker of the house and senate and one of the most celebrated lawyers of Kentucky. John Larue Helm was the father of Benjamin Helm.
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19 Aug 03
Thomas Helm The upload pictures were taken in the Helm Cemetery not to far from downtown Elizabethtown KY.
Thomas Helm was the grandfather of John Larue Helm. Thomas Helm was a prominent pioneer from Williams County Virginia. That settled in the Severns Valley of Hardin County (Elizabethtown). The garve stone that RD is setting on is the grave of Thomas Helm. Thomas Helm also served as a CPT in the 1st Virginia Reg. During the Revolutionary war.
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