It brings back memories from when I was a child. How time, people and places change,, life was good in those days!! To much violence these days,, it's really a sad,, sad world we live in today!
I remember shopping the shops of downtown knoxville as a child in the early 80s just b4 east town mall made downtown a ghost town. We'd eat lunch at the food counter of the drugstore then continued our shopping at Zayres on Baxter Ave and Sears on Central, and I'll occasionally drive through those areas just to think of my mom and reminisce. Sadly, downtown's all bars for the materialized yuppies nowadays. I understand things change through time, but it saddens me to see theres no downtown shops any longer while the trendiness of snooty millenials take over.
I remember shopping in downtown Knoxville in the 60's and 70's as a child. Before there was an West Town or An East Town. It was a busy place . West town destroyed the shopping downtown. In the 70's it was shoulder to shoulder. In the 80's it was almost like a ghost town. It coming back to life now. It busy again. I've worked down town for 25 years . 20 years ago you didn't see anyone downtown. Everything was pretty much closed down at sunset. Now with all the new condos and restaurants being built it hard to walk down the street again.
I'm thankful that what remains of downtown is beautiful, but so much of it is gone. So sad. Imagine how many more businesses and restaurants would have been there if it were all still there. It seems nobody cared in the 1950s-70s.
Nice musical assortment. It makes me sad that so much of those old,quaint buildings and streets had to give way to multi-lane highways. Sad about the old churches, too.
Don't worry. Eventually people will be looking at pictures from now when we're all dead and gone. They won't truly understand what it was like to live now
It's really sad what the Interstate Highway system did to the majority of American cities. They should have been routed around cities rather than straight through them. You can see in several of these the dense neighborhoods that were wiped out and are desolate hellscapes now.
It seems so sad. In the photos from the 20s and 40s, the streets seem so crowded and busy. By contrast, the modern photos of the same streets are so empty, they seem almost abandoned.
I disagree the area where the world fair was built was run down. I remember there was some kind of rail cart on the side of the L&N train station. It was a pretty scary looking place then. There is a really nice park there now. I sometimes go there to take photos.
I wished I could’ve lived back in the 20s 30s and 40s and I’ve been gone from this world today. Seems like back then was a much better time. Much better character architecture quality of people today not so much.
All the "now" pictures are ugly or perhaps my viewpoint is somehow flawed. I really liked the music, nice song list. I've never been to Knoxville but feel as though I have after reading McCarthy's Suttree.
I'm a born and raised east tennessean, lived allot of other places to. But I always find myself coming back home. I'm a explorer at heart. So my conclusion is why our TN horror is wide spread is because of the lack of survivors. Just saying.
