{"id":171,"date":"2006-09-19T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/09\/19\/highlands-grill-and-drive-in-highway-11-70-found\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:14:15","slug":"highlands-grill-and-drive-in-highway-11-70-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/09\/19\/highlands-grill-and-drive-in-highway-11-70-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlands Grill and Drive In – Highway 11-70 – Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 in. The place is still there:<\/p>\n

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It is now Andrew Morton’s Fine Gifts. There is a strange twist to this place. Today it is a block or so off Kingston Pike or 11-70. In the old days, it was on 11-70. 11-70 went in front of it and next to Long’s and took a hard turn to cross the railroad bridge. It then went across and took another hard turn to follow Newcom back to what is now Kingston Pike.<\/p>\n

There is also evidence that this was a change as 11-70, way way back, went straight through, down what is now Old Kingston Pike, across the railroad tracks to what is now Homberg.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for the Google satellite shot to see how Kingston Pike runs to Old Kingston Pike and clearly used to not curve around as it does today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easily one of the most common Knoxville postcards, and the only card I have found for the Highland’s. 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