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Memphis: city of firsts
1916 Piggly Wiggly, the first self-service grocery store in the country, opens, finally evolving into the first modern supermarket.
1948 WDIA radio adopts the first all African-American format, launching the careers of B.B. King, Rufus Thomas and others.
1952 Kemmons Wilson opens the first Holiday Inn --part of the first hotel-motel chain in the country -- in Memphis.
1952 Jackie...
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