'Enormous Honor' -- Stax Star's Name Graces Stretch of Interstate 40
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › August 23, 2010
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Tennessee's great roadway got a little more soulful on Friday, as Stax Records legend Isaac Hayes' name was added to a swath of Interstate 40.
On a day that would have marked Hayes' 68th birthday, the state officially recognized the Memphis music icon by renaming a stretch of I-40 - running from the Fayette-Shelby County line to its intersection at Sam Cooper Boulevard - "Isaac Hayes Memorial Highway."See the full content of this document
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'Enormous Honor' -- Stax Star's Name Graces Stretch of Interstate 40
The occasion was commemorated with a ceremony near Hayes' grave site at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis...
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