{"id":103,"date":"2006-06-22T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/06\/22\/lileks-shines-his-spotlight-on-tn-knoxville\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T18:03:10","slug":"lileks-shines-his-spotlight-on-tn-knoxville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/06\/22\/lileks-shines-his-spotlight-on-tn-knoxville\/","title":{"rendered":"Lileks shines his spotlight on TN &#8211; Knoxville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recall when I first came across <a title=\"Lileks Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lileks&#8217; site<\/a>. I loved it. And then I wondered if people thought I was copying him. Well, I started my site completely independantly. Great minds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He has posted Tennessee postcards now and has highlighted some places I have researched myself. Check out his images of TN <a title=\"Lileks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/motels\/TN\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. Those cards of the Monteagle are awesome.<a title=\"Monteagle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/places\/monteagle\/monteagle.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Here are my pictures of it now<\/a>. And the Admiral Benbow research is on my forums <a title=\"Admiral Benbow now and then\" href=\"http:\/\/forum.hukilau.org\/viewtopic.php?t=201\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. Sadly gone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/places\/monteagle\/monteagle.htm\" target=\"_target\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Postcard on Lileks site\" alt=\"Postcard on Lileks site\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lileks.com\/motels\/TN\/2.jpg?w=490\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall when I first came across Lileks&#8217; site. I loved it. And then I wondered if people thought I was copying him. Well, I started my site completely independantly. <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/06\/22\/lileks-shines-his-spotlight-on-tn-knoxville\/\">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":[7,540],"tags":[697,701,221,257,317,381],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-googie","category-retro-preservation","tag-googie","tag-knoxville","tag-lileks","tag-monteagle","tag-postcards","tag-tennessee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-1F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":284,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/10\/13\/knoxville-postcard-show-next-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":0},"title":"Knoxville Postcard Show next Weekend","author":"Swanky","date":"October 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"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.\u00c2\u00a0A big postcard dealer. She will be at the postcard show with her complete collection. It was great to see a stack of just Knoxville cards.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ephemera&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ephemera","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/ephemera\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":419,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2008\/11\/06\/service-station-asheville-hwy\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":1},"title":"Service Station &#8211; Asheville Hwy","author":"Swanky","date":"November 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This little station was in a movie filmed in Knoxville. Anyone recall what movie? October Sky or Box of Moonlight?\u00c2\u00a0In the movie, I recall there were like 20 Highway direction signs in front of it. Great vinatge lines. A phone? 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A relic of the 50s that stands today, the Westwood Motel, part of the Knoxville Then and Now\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/retro-goodies\/architecture-retro-goodies-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":875,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2013\/03\/20\/vintage-knoxville-google-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":4},"title":"Vintage Knoxville Google Map","author":"Swanky","date":"March 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was at the Mod Weekend event last weekend in Fort Lauderdale, I was talking with other fans of vintage modern and thought it would be great to document these places on a map so other people can find them easily. 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