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\"\"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.<\/p>\n

Those who went to Opal’s Lounge were right next to it and there were many mysteries in the old courtyard. An older man lived there and came by to say hello to Opal regulalrly. There was a GTO Judge in there somewhere. I hope someone got the old sign<\/a>… Wish it were me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[550,450,19,539,540,541],"tags":[701,261,427],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-retro-goodies-2","category-architecture","category-knoxville","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","category-vintage-places","tag-knoxville","tag-motel","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-bZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":811,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2013\/01\/14\/redmon-court-knoxville-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":743,"position":0},"title":"Redmon Court – Knoxville Then and Now","author":"Swanky","date":"January 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Another addition to Knoxville Then and Now is the Redmon Court. 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