History supplies a handy perspective to almost every current issue. Crazy, angry gunmen, for example. We’ve had them in Knoxville since the saloon era, they always made the papers, and they were often described in vivid detail. (They usually just […]
A while back there was an announcement of the likely prospects for the 1920s Pryor Brown Garage, the four-story brick building at Market and Church that was very nearly torn down a couple of years ago. If parking garages aren’t […]
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. The Tennessee Theatre’s tall sign, removed this week, is only about 12 years old. A vertical sign was there during the theater’s early years, but it was removed in 1956. When […]
At its messy, railroad-track-strewn intersection with Western, Keith Avenue offers the promise of a clever shortcut west. But follow it into West View, and it starts to look like a sleepy country road. If you can remember where it is, […]
Memorial Day has been celebrated in Knoxville for about as long as the holiday has existed. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was a day for decorating the graves of war dead with flowers. A day to remember Union soldiers […]
For the last few weeks, the Knox County Public Library’s “Paper to Pixels” project has made a couple of decades of News Sentinel articles and ads available to us via the library’s website. Lots of interesting details of Knoxville’s cultural […]
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Knox Heritage announces its short list of historical resources that are threatened, but show promise for new life in the future. As always, this year’s announcement of the Fragile Fifteen includes a […]
Maybe you haven’t spent much time in Burlington since Ruby’s Coffee Shop closed, 16 years ago. But when you get to the eastern end of MLK, it’s still tempting to pull over and get out of the car. A cluster […]
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Central Street is the focus of this Sunday’s “Open Streets” festival, when the street turns pedestrians-only for a few hours. One of Knoxville’s oldest streets, it hasn’t always been called Central. South […]
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