{"id":1076,"date":"2014-12-28T09:06:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2018-07-18T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:08:15","slug":"knoxville-then-now-westwood-motel-kingston-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2014\/12\/28\/knoxville-then-now-westwood-motel-kingston-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"Knoxville Then & Now – Westwood Motel Kingston Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I have been meaning to add this motel on Kingston Pike for a long time. We dropped in to try Archer’s BBQ and so I took some pictures and added it today. A relic of the 50s that stands today, the Westwood Motel<\/a>, part of the Knoxville Then and Now site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today it is Cherokee Village and home to\u00c2\u00a0Archer’s Barbeque<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and other small businesses.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0I have been meaning to add this motel on Kingston Pike for a long time. We dropped in to try Archer’s BBQ and so I took some pictures and added Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[550,450,535,17,7,19,539,540,541],"tags":[209,701,261,338,427],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-retro-goodies-2","category-architecture","category-blather","category-ephemera","category-googie","category-knoxville","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","category-vintage-places","tag-kingston-pike","tag-knoxville","tag-motel","tag-retro","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-hm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":743,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2011\/12\/14\/update-biltmore-tourist-court-demolished\/","url_meta":{"origin":1076,"position":0},"title":"UPDATE: Biltmore Tourist Court Demolished","author":"Swanky","date":"December 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This icon on Kingston Pike, which dated back to the 1930s at least, and which seemed to deny time by still standing in a location that was heavily commercialized all around, is no more. 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