Turner's Drug Store

In 1942 Mississippi had twelve radio stations; by 1952 it had 48, and that postwar boom put a Belzoni drugstore corner on the air. Before 1948 Black performers were seldom heard on the state's airwaves, and Memphis's WDIA had only just become the nation's first station programmed entirely for Black listeners. Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James played live in Belzoni, their show carried by telephone line to Yazoo City's WAZF and Greenville's WJPR. Within a few years both men were recording in Jackson.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 21 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Triangle Cultural Center — 23 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.

More markers nearby

• Denise LaSalle — steps away
• Pinetop Perkins — 1.5 mi
• Jaketown Site — 4.1 mi
• Hank Cochran — 7.7 mi