{"id":100,"date":"2006-06-20T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/06\/20\/dwarf-restaurant-one-location-found\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T22:53:04","slug":"dwarf-restaurant-one-location-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/06\/20\/dwarf-restaurant-one-location-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf Restaurant &#8211; One location found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had these two images of the enigmatic &#8220;Dwarf Restaurant&#8221; in Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dwarf One\" alt=\"Dwarf One\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/places\/knoxvilletan\/other\/dwarf-tate1.jpg?w=490\"  \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dwarf Two\" alt=\"Dwarf Two\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/places\/knoxvilletan\/other\/dwarf-tate2.jpg?w=840\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear now there either were two of them or two locations. The\u00c2\u00a0first is clearly related to the Tate Motel which I located a while ago. Recently on the <a title=\"Swank Pad forums\" href=\"http:\/\/forum.hukilau.org\/viewtopic.php?t=215\" target=\"_blank\">Swank Pad forums<\/a>, a local pointed me to what I now beleive is the location in the\u00c2\u00a0second postcard. I took these pictures this morning.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dwarf\" alt=\"Dwarf\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blog\/dwarfnow.jpg?w=490\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dwarf\" alt=\"Dwarf\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blog\/dwarfnow2.jpg?w=490\"  \/><br \/>\nLooks very close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had these two images of the enigmatic &#8220;Dwarf Restaurant&#8221; in Knoxville. \u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s clear now there either were two of them or two locations. The\u00c2\u00a0first is clearly related to <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/06\/20\/dwarf-restaurant-one-location-found\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,540],"tags":[124,338,427,428],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knoxville","category-retro-preservation","tag-dwarf-restaurant","tag-retro","tag-vintage","tag-vintage-restaurant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-1C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/08\/10\/dwarf-restaurant-and-tate-motel-really-found\/","url_meta":{"origin":100,"position":0},"title":"Dwarf Restaurant and Tate Motel &#8211; Really Found","author":"Swanky","date":"August 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I posted this topic earlier and it turns out I was wrong.\u00c2\u00a0Mark said he thought the Dwarf\u00c2\u00a0was at the corner of Merchants and Clinton Highway. 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