Photo gallery: A quiet St. Patrick’s Day on Beale Street
Kendrica Wright and Lee Williams sit on an empty Beale Street on St. Patrick’s Day Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Area restaurants and bars are experiencing smaller number of customers due to the outbreak of coronavirus. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Miss Polly’s waiter Eli Wheeler scans his cell phone during an unusually slow St. Patrick’s Day night Tuesday, March 17, 2020 on Beale Street. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Harmonica player Micheal Blumenthal performs in front of the empty Kings Palace Cafe on St. Patrick’s Day Tuesday, March 17, 2020 on Beale Street. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Artist Carl Brown (left) and Ernest Lawson (right) pack up their supplies around 7:30 p.m. on St. Patrick's Day Tuesday, March 17, 2020 on Beale Street. Smaller crowds forced the the pair to head home hours before they normally would. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Tourists celebrating St. Patrick’s Day walk by the Blues City Cafe & Band Box billboard stating they will longer have live music on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, on Beale Street. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Buddy Nemenz sings to a small crowd at Silky O’Sullivan’s on St. Patrick’s Day Tuesday, March 17, 2020, on Beale Street. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus a smaller number of tourists and locals attend the on St. Patrick’s Day festivities Tuesday, March 17, 2020, on Beale Street. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Musician Jamie Kenton strums his guitar on a vacant Beale Street on St. Patrick’s Day Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, a smaller number of tourists and locals attend the St. Patrick’s Day festivities Tuesday, March 17, 2020, on Beale Street. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
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