1. Collierville Herald
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Media
Telephone: (901) 853-2241
Address: 148 North Main Street
Description: The Herald, one of Tennessee’s oldest newspapers, is distributed weekly with a circulation of about 7,200. Because the suburb of Collierville has a second weekly newspaper, local wags say it enjoys a more competitive newspaper scene than Memphis proper. The Herald also carries local sports and community news. Cost is 50 cents an issue, $18 for a year’s subscription to a Collierville address, and $22 a year to an address outside the area.
2. The Independent
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Media
Telephone: (901) 853-7060
Address: 151 North Main Street
Description: The Independent is Collierville’s other weekly paper and has a circulation of about 12,000, mostly distributed free. It competes with the Collierville Herald on local news. The newspaper, although free to the town’s homeowners, is 50 cents a copy or $9.36 for a year’s subscription inside Collierville (for residents).
3. Funquest Lanes
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (901) 850-9600
Address: 440 Highway 72
Description: This all-purpose 32-lane facility features leagues most days and neon bowling on weekends. FunQuest has a pro shop, a snack bar, a lounge, a restaurant, a roller-skating rink, and a game room, as well as meeting and party rooms. It closes earlier than most other bowling alleys around town.
4. Ymca At Schilling Farms
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (901) 850-9622
Address: 1185 Schilling Boulevard
Description: The city also boasts a calendar of annual sports events, starting in February with the Regions Morgan Keegan indoor tennis championships. The event features top tennis stars in a weeklong tournament that’s steeped in tradition. In spring professional golfers of national prominence play here in a PGA stop, the Stanford St. Jude Championship, which has taken its place as one of the most competitive on the tour. There’s also the Germantown Charity Horse Show in June, which draws top riders. The annual matchup between two top area historically black universities, Tennessee State University and Jackson State University, fills the Liberty Bowl for the Southern Heritage Classic in September. The Liberty Bowl is also the site of the AutoZone Liberty Bowl Football Classic, an annual college football game pitting the champions of Conference USA and Mountain West (typically held in late December). One of the oldest bowls in college football, the Liberty brings national exposure to the city. As for other spectator sports, there’s wrestling from time to time at the Mid-South Coliseum. This retro arena near the Liberty Bowl has a rich tradition of professional wrestling, and it’s here that Sputnik Monroe and Jerry “The King” Lawler built their careers. Across the river in West Memphis, Arkansas, “The Sport of Kings,” greyhound racing, is a nightly attraction at Southland Greyhound Park. North of the city in Millington, auto racing makes itself heard at the Memphis Motorsports Park. Amateur sports thrive in the city under the auspices of the Memphis Parks Commission, which operates baseball, softball, soccer, and basketball leagues for all ages, and for the city and county schools.
5. John Green & Co., Realtors
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (901) 853-0763
Address: 108 Mulberry Street
Description: Based in Collierville, this realty company handles new and existing homes in Collierville, Germantown, Cordova, East Memphis, and other suburban areas. John Green is the owner and has 50 agents on his staff as well as a Relocation Department to take care of clients’ relocation needs. The company works with properties in all price ranges, but most are $150,000 or more, given the home prices in the Collierville area. Although primarily a residential real estate firm, the company also does some commercial and land transactions. John Green & Co. does about $102 million in annual gross sales.
6. Osaka
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (901) 861-1438
Address: 3670 South Houston Levee Road
Description: Located in an upscale strip mall in Collierville, Osaka’s atmosphere is cozy and the clientele is mostly families. The menu has standard Japanese dishes and sushi but it also includes Japanese curry and all the sushi rolls are available as a half order. Open for lunch and dinner every day except Saturday, which is lunch only.
7. Corky’S Ribs & Bbq
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (901) 405-4999
Address: 743 West Poplar Avenue
Description: Corky’s serves up some of the most popular ribs and pork shoulder in town at its three suburban restaurants. The meats are slow cooked over hickory wood and charcoal, and you can order the ribs in both dry and wet styles. The restaurants are casual, rustic-style places, where you can expect to wait for a table during peak dinner hours, because they don’t take reservations. All three have a drive-through window, so you can get your barbecue to go. Corky’s also does a huge mail-order business (see the Web site for more information) and sells its meats (frozen), sauce, and seasoning at supermarkets. It has been voted the best ribs restaurant in Memphis for more than 15 years by readers of Memphis magazine. The Cordova and Poplar Avenue restaurants serve beer, but no liquor or wine. Open every day. NOTE: You will see Corky’s franchises in other parts of the South, but the Memphis locations are operated hands-on by the Pelts family, the original owners.
8. Jim’S Place Grille
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (901) 861-5000
Address: 3660 Houston Levy, Suite 112
Description: Jim’s Place East, family owned and operated here since 1921, is one of the city’s oldest restaurants, having moved from downtown Memphis to its current location in the 1970s. It is situated off the beaten path on a woodsy lot amid warehouses and other commercial businesses off Summer Avenue. This large and beloved Memphis establishment is chopped up into smaller, cozy dining rooms nicely decorated in different styles, with views of the grounds which are particularly attractive in spring and summer. Greek specialties such as pork tenderloin and beef kabobs grace the menu, but there’s also shrimp stuffed with lump crabmeat, grouper Pontchartrain, and excellent steaks. Jim’s Place is a wonderful setting in which to celebrate a birthday or other special occasion. Open for lunch Monday through Friday and for dinner Monday through Saturday.
9. El Porton
City: Collierville, TN
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (901) 854-5770
Address: 1016 West Poplar Avenue
Description: This kid-friendly Mexican restaurant is generous with the chips and has a nice outdoor eating area. It gets crowded especially around happy hour, so go early.