Gay street knoxville tn
Dazzo's Pizzeria. K Brew Downtown. Nama Sushi Bar. Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain. Status Dough Downtown. Five Thirty Lounge at Hyatt Place. Ham 'N' Goodys Downtown. Jacks of Knoxville. Maple Hall. Mirage Knoxville. Primetime Hotdogs. SkyBox Sports Bar and Grill. Suttree's High Gravity Tavern.
As Knoxville grew, Gay Street did, too! See the famous road through the years
All of them still stand. The skyscraper race commenced again in the late s, when the steel and glass United American Bank building, later known as Plaza Tower, soared above the Andrew Johnson, and Riverview Tower, almost as tall, rose near it. From to , Gay Street was the site of dozens of civil-rights demonstrations, first sit-ins at all-white lunch counters, then demonstrations outside the still-segregated movie theaters.
Ghost Walking Gay Street at Union
You can still see the name above the entrance to Lilou Brasserie. In , several thousand veterans came to Knoxville for a rare Blue-Gray reunion, commemorating the Battle of Fort Sanders in during the Civil War. Many walked right by this corner on parade, straight from the Southern Station, and it would have been the first time since the war that they had returned to the city in which they had fought.