Lusk Body Co. – Off Central
Lusk Body Co. refurbished their sign I think. Great sign regardless. Happy Hollow, well, holler, is an infamous area of Knoxville and is rapidly gentrifying. I am trying to document Read More …
If it’s Swank…
The book about the penultimate Tiki establishment
Lusk Body Co. refurbished their sign I think. Great sign regardless. Happy Hollow, well, holler, is an infamous area of Knoxville and is rapidly gentrifying. I am trying to document Read More …
Star Sales has just all kinds of stuff. But the sign is an icon. You can see the neon of this sign from all over Knoxville. There are concentric neon Read More …
Knox Glass sign on Central. Looks like it could have gas tiki torches.
I’m not sure what this says about me, but a few months ago, this sign was un-retouched and showed it’s 50 plus years of service and I loved it. Now Read More …
Electrical Wholesalers This place is still open doing business. Spent this beautifal Fall day photographing some vintage Knox ville, signs and buildings. I’ll be posting them over the next week.
I picked up this new card of the Sharp’s Motel at the Clinton Antiques Fair today. For the complete story on this Motel, click here. A big postcard dealer. She will Read More …
Check out the Sputnik mailbox! On Wednesday I happened to be in the hospital emergency room and browsed the local Knoxville Magazine and they had this article on a great Read More …
Tim Hollis has created several great books of vintage Americana, concentrating on the South. His latest offering is about the good old Smokie Mountains and the many vacation destinations in Read More …
If you are a denizen of the Knoxville dives, you know Opal’s Lounge. If you go by before 7PM these days, you can still hang out with Opal herself. She Read More …
Easily one of the most common Knoxville postcards, and the only card I have found for the Highland’s. I had no clue about it until some fellow Knoxvillians clued me Read More …
The Watauga Building – which at one time was a hotel, at the corner of Gay and Park Avenue. Finding this place took some detective work and help from the Read More …
This is the oldest card. Check out the phone number! The postcards say it is 3 miles north of Knoxville on Highways 33 and 71. That’s all. So I really Read More …
I posted this topic earlier and it turns out I was wrong. Mark said he thought the Dwarf was at the corner of Merchants and Clinton Highway. That seemed wrong to me Read More …
This postcard eluded me for a while because I had no information on it’s location. But a reader of my forums knew it and pointed me to the right place. I Read More …
I had these two images of the enigmatic “Dwarf Restaurant” in Knoxville.  It’s clear now there either were two of them or two locations. The first is clearly related to Read More …