Posted February 4, 20196 yr nashville a cold, but nice wintery weekend of touristy nashvuhl -- enjoy the ‘ol fauxthenon vandy hattie b’s hot shikn broadway arena predators hockey team printers alley roof deck newishville johnny cash museum hatch show print shop karaoke ryman nashville country music hof studio b wrapping up --- country star blake skeleton pops up live in his bar its been a long time --- goodnight nashville *** i hope you enjoyed a look around nashville, tennessee ***
February 4, 20196 yr Thanks! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 5, 20196 yr Almost all of these "old" signs appeared in the last 5-6 years. I only recognize two of them from when my parents moved there in 1996. <a href="https://s1340.photobucket.com/user/NYCnMore/media/nashvuhl/47C88F1B-318E-4225-8DD5-CC79485DC647_zps2bxveffh.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i1340.photobucket.com/albums/o725/NYCnMore/nashvuhl/47C88F1B-318E-4225-8DD5-CC79485DC647_zps2bxveffh.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 47C88F1B-318E-4225-8DD5-CC79485DC647_zps2bxveffh.jpg"></a> There were only about five bars -- if that -- on Broadway in the 90s, and maybe one boot shop. Most of the tourist stuff was on Second Ave. at that time (i.e. Hard Rock Café, Olde Spaghetti Factory) and Printer's Alley had that arched sign but there was basically nothing there, maybe three bars. So please don't be fooled by the "authenticity". Hedge Funds own those buildings and the quote-unquote honkey tonks with the possible exception of Robert's, which I recall still had original ownership around 2000 and might still.
February 7, 20196 yr Author dont be fooled by five 1990s bars and printers alley arches authenticity either. i lived around nashville for almost a year in the 1980s and had not been back since. it was interesting to see someplace after such a long gap.
February 7, 20196 yr I will forever now associate Nashville with heinous older neighborhood gentrification...beyond help here.
February 8, 20196 yr Author 19 hours ago, SleepyLeroy said: What is the place with the old Greyhound Scenicruiser on the roof? i found this - pretty cool: https://www.wkrn.com/news/greyhound-bus-placed-on-top-of-roof/1057412539
May 8, 20196 yr The Tennessean just sold its nondescript 2-floor downtown office & printing press for a staggering $50 million. As luck would have it, it's in the center of all of the crazy hi-rise development. They probably built there back in the 1920s or 30s when newsprint was delivered by rail car. Seriously, look at what $50 million gets you in Nashville: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1576762,-86.7881684,3a,75y,104.83h,93.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqhgUYJyFruyZ3ODKJXh1Sg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 The newsroom has moved to rented office space a few blocks away and printing has moved to...Louisville. Yes, 200+ miles away. Edited May 8, 20196 yr by jmecklenborg
May 8, 20196 yr 42 minutes ago, GCrites80s said: That is some truly terrible street interaction. The place is nuts. Columbus -- #3 for traditional streetscapes in Ohio -- absolutely blows away Nashville. Like, there isn't even a Parsons Ave.-type strip anywhere in Nashville.
May 8, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: The Tennessean just sold its nondescript 2-floor downtown office & printing press for a staggering $50 million. As luck would happen, it's in the center of all of the crazy hi-rise development. They probably built there back in the 1920s or 30s when newsprint was delivered by rail car. Seriously, look at what $50 million gets you in Nashville: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1576762,-86.7881684,3a,75y,104.83h,93.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqhgUYJyFruyZ3ODKJXh1Sg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 The newsroom has moved to rented office space a few blocks away and printing has moved to...Louisville. Yes, 200+ miles away. They (and the Enquirer) are all part of the USA Today network, so it's all centralized. All of our papers here in Ithaca, Elmira and Binghamton are printed in... Rochester, a good 2 hours at a minimum from Ithaca and 3-4 hours from Binghamton. But with print demand declining so much, they can eat the transportation costs.
May 8, 20196 yr 27 minutes ago, seicer said: They (and the Enquirer) are all part of the USA Today network, so it's all centralized. All of our papers here in Ithaca, Elmira and Binghamton are printed in... Rochester, a good 2 hours at a minimum from Ithaca and 3-4 hours from Binghamton. But with print demand declining so much, they can eat the transportation costs. They've shifted all their costs to the subscribers who somehow have $60 a month to get the paper. My mother can't use the internet (despite spending hundreds if not thousands on lessons) so I suppose she is saving $10 a month over the internet.
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