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Dwarf Restaurant
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Knoxville, Tennessee – Then and Now
Dwarf Restaurant
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This one took a while to figure out because there were 2 Dwarf Restaurants and I was looking for the other one just based on the building and all I knew was it was on Clinton Highway.
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This card was dated 1955, but looks older. Very different from the first card.
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The building above on Clinton Hwy was one of the locations, the other was at the corner of Merchants and Clinton Hwy and that building has been heavily renovated.
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The top Dwarf location also shows the Tate Motel in the background.
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Below is the Dwarf lot as it was. A lot of junk cars are stored there. It has been cleaned up a bit since this picture.
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I grew up in Powell, Tn in the 1950’s & ’60’s. We ate ate at the Dwarf Drive-in in our car on Sundays.
A waitress from the Dwarf Restaurant drowned in the swimming pool one summer night at the Tate Motel next door.
I had an aunt & my oldest sister who worked in the restaurant. After their late shift at the restaurant they would brink home fried chicken in white paper bags. It was a little greasy and writing this, I can still smell it. Not bad, but not great.
I am now living in Montevideo, Uruguay. Jon-Ivan Weaver of Brickyard Rd., Powell.
Google my name.