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| Name: | Gayle (Watson) Pope |
| E-mail address: | donnapope@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Thanks for this walk down memory lane. Those were the good ol' days.
Gayle (Watson) Pope Central High Class of 1961 |
| Name: | Martha Lunn Harvey |
| E-mail address: | harveyjim@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Went to Clemons, Waverly Belmont, and West HIgh. Member of ETC. Remember all 99 things. Boy am I old |
| Name: | Nanci Clark |
| E-mail address: | nanci.clark@am.sony.com |
| Comments: | awww now I'm homesick....thanks for the trip down memory lane,....funny how many things I had forgotten. kiss the ground for me.....
Anticoh class of '75 now a soth alabama transplant. You can take the girl out of Tennessee, but you can't take the Tennessee out of the girl |
| Name: | The Hookman |
| E-mail address: | spiritofnashville@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Enjoyed watching all the "neckers" in the park. Hillsboro '71 |
| Name: | Rita Burchett |
| E-mail address: | ritaburch@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I enjoyed this very much. I remember so many of these. |
| Name: | Bette Siegel (Loventhal) |
| E-mail address: | bette.siegel@state.tn.us |
| Comments: | I graduated West End High School in 1966. I'm still living here in Nashville, but so much has changed. I remember the Hippodrome, Tiny Tims Hamburgers on West End with their great fudge pie, Going to the combo parties (especially the ones downstairs at Belle Meade Buffet). Still think about my first love (Randy Dozier). I've enjoyed going to the class reunions , but have lost contact with many friends over the years. |
| Name: | family |
| E-mail address: | poopinitup@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | peggy carter Meade was my great aunt she sang many songs that wont be forgot in my family
she died on christmas of 07 but her music will always live on. in memory of My Aunt Peggy |
| Name: | HANK GUPTON |
| E-mail address: | THEMISTERGUPTON@HOTMAIL.COM |
| Homepage URL: | http:// NONE |
| Comments: | AS A YOUNG BOY VISITING MY GRANDMOTHER IN JACKSON,TENNESSEE EVERY THIRD COMMERCIAL OVER RADIO STATION W D X I WAS FOR FROSTY MORN SAUSAGE ( CHA CHA CHA). AFTER RETURNING TO TEXAS THE LOCAL HOUSTON STATIONS PLAYED A SIMILIAR COMMERCIAL FOR NEUHOFF'S SAUSAGE. SHORTLY AFTER THAT SUMMER, BOTH FROSTY MORN AND NEUHOFF MEAT PRODUCTS VANISHED FROM CONSUMER CONCIOUSNESS. WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE BRANS AND WHO BOUGHT THEM OUT? |
| Name: | Joyce A. Luna |
| E-mail address: | lunaallenjoyce@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I loved this Dreambook..............I also remember going to the movies for 10 cents, popcorn 5 cents and eating
at the Krystal or buying a big sack of hamburgers, donuts taking it into the movie and eating your lunch watching the movie. The 30's and 40's were the happiest time of my life in Nashville. |
| Name: | JACKIE BELL |
| E-mail address: | jackie@hogblom.com |
| Comments: | I LOVE THIS PAGE!!! I WAS HEALTH AND RECERATION DIRECTOR OF THE YWCA FROM 1957 TO 1965. TAUGHT HUNDREDS OF 4 YEAR OLD BOYS, AND GIRLS CALLED,"TINY TOTS," ADULT WOMEN TOO.
FROM 1960 -1965 I WAS ON "SLIMNASTICS," JACKIE BELL EXERCISE SHOW EVERY MORNING. IT WAS LIVE, AND A HOOT, BECAUSE WE HAD LOTS OF BLOOPERS. BOB LOBERTINI WAS PAID TO DO ONE EXERCISE WITH ME...HE HATED IT! HA! I WAS MARRIED TO LEO PEWETT A PHARMACIST, DISCO OWNER, AND WILD, "BIG ORANGE FAN." THE FIRST DANCE DRINK CLUB WAS THE EXECUTIVE CLUB ON WEST END. IT WAS MARIO'S FIRST JOB, HE WAS BARTENDER. YOU HAD TO BE A MEMBER AND HAVE A BOTTLE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT BEHIND THE BAR...FLASKS WERE REAL POPULAR! I HAVE BEEN A PERSONAL TRAINER,( AFTER A LONG STINT WITH SETH SMITH'S COSMOPOLITIAN HEALTH CLUBS.) FOR 48 YEARS. I HAVE MOVED TO THE SNOWY LAND OF NEW ENGLAND, WHERE I HAVE A "BARN PERSONAL TRAINER STUDIO." I MISS ALL MY CLIENTS, ESPECIALLY BARBARA CANNON-WALL, LINDA CURB, AND MARY DUNPHY, JUST TO NAME A FEW. I REALLY MISS BRENTWOOD WHERE I LIVED FROM 1963-2004..FOREVER!! MY SONS, CHIP BELL, RIP PEWETT, RYAN PEWETT, AND BLAIR PEWETT, AND OF COURSE ALL MY CLIENTS AND FRIENDS, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE. OH YES, LEN ROSSI MY FRIEND THAT WE ALL WENT TO FOR VITAMINS. LOVE TO ALL IN WONDERFUL NASHVILLE AND BRENTWOOD. AT 72(MERCY)I AM RIDING MY TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE, "APACHE.", WALKING 4 MILES WITH MY ROWDY BEARDED COLLIE, "HUGO."( NATURALLY WORKING OUT WITH FREE WEIGHTS.) MISSING TENNESSEE......WE GOT 115" OF SNOW THIS WINTER! IT IS BEAUTIFUL HERE, BUT I MISS THE,"YOU ALL'S." LOVE YOU ALL. JACKIE BELL-PEWETT |
| Name: | Susan Spears Alsup |
| E-mail address: | medrawhouses@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Great fun remembering those days! I also thought of "The Farmer's Daughter Restaurant" by Hillsboro High when skipping school.You could hang out there til safe enough to go to across the street to Green Hills Shopping Center.
Btw,Becky Tarpley, you graduated in 69, not 96 !!!!!!!!! I'm still loving this town. susan spears (alsup) |
| Name: | Annette Gardner |
| E-mail address: | GolfNana72@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Great memories of Cascade Plunge and jumping off the 30-foot tower once. Managed a few dives from the 20-foot platform. Remember Jody Ellis and Les Jameson lifeguards. They and some others put on great shows from the diving boards and clowning around.
Also great memories of Hippodrome Roller Rink, waltzing and two-stepping and loving the tunnel at the end of the Grand March. It is great to be a Nashville Tennessee native. |
| Name: | Kelly Jamesson |
| E-mail address: | Cammie9948@aol.com |
| Comments: | Wow, this really takes me back!!!! I was born/raised in Nashville (I've been in Southern Calif. for 20 years) and remembered most of the list. Lots of Nashville landmarks are gone--Castner-Knott's, Cain-Sloan, Harvey's, 100 Hundred Oaks Mall...::sniff:: I remember going downtown with my grandmother shopping in the above-mentioned stores. What a treat! I graduated in '81 from Hillwood High School--that was the year we merged with Bellevue High.
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| Name: | Tom Heard |
| E-mail address: | thomashe@realtracs.com |
| Name: | marc harris |
| E-mail address: | kmharris1984@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | great page for history lovers! |
| Name: | Becky Tarpley Porter |
| E-mail address: | bporte@lsuhsc.edu |
| Comments: | Are you the Chip Curley that went to Hillsboro High School. If so, I know you. I happened across this website and I just love it. I have the most wonderful memories of Nashville and miss the great days that we all spent there in the 60's. I live in New Orleans now, so I don't get back often. It it great to relive those wonderful memories. Thank you so much. Becky Tarpley Porter Hillsboro High School Class of `96. |
| Name: | Pam "Matthews" Burton |
| E-mail address: | pburton@assist2sell.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.buyandsellnashville.com |
| Comments: | What wonderful memories! Good times are not forgotten! |
| Name: | Barbara Townes |
| E-mail address: | barbaratprice@comcast.net |
| Comments: | If anyone knows Bobby Blankeship that went to Howard school in the 50's please contact me........We're working on the family genealogy and could use some information from him. |
| Name: | Barbara Townes |
| E-mail address: | barbaratprice@comcast.net |
| Comments: | If anyone know's Bobby Blankenship that went to Howard school in the 50's please contact me.....My family is working on the family genealogy and could use some information from him. |
| Name: | Tom Horton |
| E-mail address: | iamvered@yahoo.fr |
| Comments: | Thanks... a lovely recollection. -- Hillwood Class of '84 |
| Name: | kenny canady |
| E-mail address: | kencanady@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Donelson High School..Class of '68...loads of memories....great web sight...i'm in georgia since summer of '68 and have been back to nashville only a few times since then..i think my class is having a 40th reunion this summer...i will be there for sure... |
| Name: | Harold Dean Kilburn |
| E-mail address: | yawlcome2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have posted quite a few times here, and have never heard from one single post yet. What's wrong does not one person remember me from my Nashville Days. I was born there in 1939, attended Grade School there on Dickerson Road, from grade 1-8, Litton 10-11, Hume Fogg 11-12, attended Naval Reserve Meetings in Shelby Park until July 1957 when I went active duty and retired in 1985 after 30 years Naval Service. Worked at Western Union Telegraph Co. after school delivering telegrams on bicycle and Cushman Motor Scooter. Is everyone dead from those years? I sang and played guitar on Church Street, above Princess Theater at Eva Marie Jones Studio, 4th and Church, her uncle started the Grand Ole Opry in the early days. Once entered talent contest at Loews Theater with DJ Hugh Cherry of KFOX Los Angeles Radio fame. Oh well if anyone out there would like to send me a message please do so, as I am about to give up say no one survives from these years..............................dean |
| Name: | DAVE BURGETT |
| E-mail address: | dave0527ky@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I LOVE THE STORIES AND THE OLD PICTURES. I GREW UP IN WEST NASHVILLE 1970s & 80s. I LIVED TWO BLOCKS FROM WEST PARK. MOM WORKED AT PARKVIEW HOSPITAL AND DAD SUN FLOWER. IM STILL TICKED OPRYLAND CLOSED. I REMEMEBER 100 OAKS MALL AND SEEING SANTA AND CHRISTMAS SHOPING THERE. MY FAVORITE HANG OUT WAS WEST BOWL. I USED TO HANG OUT AT THE C&C MARKET WITH SINGER SONG WRITER TOMMY COLLINS. I GOT A LOT OF GOOD MEMORIES OF NASHVILLE. |
| Name: | Karen Bright |
| E-mail address: | bubblyi@aol.com |
| Comments: | hillsboro high-class of 1977
moved away in 1995 to sunny south florida loved the nashville memories....i remember mostly from the 70s.... and one of my most memorables was our beloved weatherman bob lobertini!! b&w cafeteria & walgreens downtown; crispy creme donuts, 100 oaks!, the harveys carousel, i went to the hyatt regency polaris for sr prom. thnx 4 the memories |
| Name: | Sue Hale |
| E-mail address: | sue.hale@cornerstonefinancialcu.org |
| Comments: | This brought back wonderful memories. I graduated from Issac Litton High School in '71, so I remember alot of this. I loved the Nativity Scene, Cascade Swimming Pool, The Hippodrome, Downtown Movie Theaters, Harvey's, etc. This is a great Website. |
| Name: | David M. Weakley |
| E-mail address: | dmwvols@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Donelson High - Class of 1966.
Great site. Brought back a lot of memories. |
| Name: | Lee Hall |
| E-mail address: | ny4t@comcast.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.myspace.com/1m1b |
| Comments: | Hello Chip. What a great site with lots of great memories. I grew up in Nashville and went to Clemons, Sylvan Park, Glengarry, Wright Jr., Glencliff and Peabody Dem. where I graduated. I remember almost everything on the site. I am 53 years old. Just two things that I'm not sure about. You said the first McDonald's was in Madison. I thought it was on Dickerson Road just below where I-65 is now. That's east alright but not Madison. Also, I think it was galoshes we wore when it snowed. Wearing goulashes would have been messy indeed. Thanks for all your work to keep this site going. |
| Name: | Lee Hall |
| E-mail address: | ny4t@comcast.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.myspace.com/1m1b |
| Comments: | Great stuff! I am 53 and grew up in Nashville. Lots of great memories. A couple of things made me scratch my head, though. You said the first McDonald's was in Madison. I thought it was on Dickerson Road just below where the interstate is now. Also, we wore galoshes in the snow. Wearing goulashes would have been very messy. BTW, did you know that Dairy King on Thompson Lane is still in business. Wee Tee Golf closed after the longtime owner died but DK is now operated by some friends of mine, the Jones family. It is now a dairy dip plus a meat-and-three.
About Kennedy, when he came through town I saw him at Vultee Blvd. and Murfreesboro Road in his open car. When he was shot I was only a few miles away from you; on the playground at Clemons School. |
| Name: | Frank Carter |
| E-mail address: | papa0491@aol.com |
| Comments: | First job Bud's A & W Root Beer 16th and Bucannon st. |
| Name: | Judy Eads Fox |
| E-mail address: | judydfox@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Wonderful memories, Thanks |
| Name: | Bill Warner |
| E-mail address: | wawafs@comcast.net |
| Comments: | My hats off to whoever put this together, I really enjoyed reading it, it brought back a lot of memories !You forgot about Warner Drug company and its soda fountain. Thanks ! |
| Name: | Barbara Townes |
| E-mail address: | barbaratprice@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I love reading about the old Nashville.........Does anyone remember the Skyline Restaurant at the corner of Donelson Pike and Murfreesboro Road?.... |
| Name: | Bobby Ferriss |
| E-mail address: | bferriss@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I was born and raised in South Nashville in the 40s 50s.Graduated from Howard High in 1958. Worked at South Park swimming pool in 57,58. Its niceto relive the memories of old Nashville. I love this site. |
| Name: | KENNETH HALL |
| E-mail address: | KENANDVAL37@MSN.COM |
| Comments: | TRYING TO LOCATE ENLOE SMITH. IF YOU KNOW HIM CONTACT ME, PLEASE. |
| Name: | Dean Kilburn |
| E-mail address: | yawlcome2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I remember the Christmas parade that used to go down Church Street ever year, 40s to 50s. Charlie Knickens BBQ on Jefferson Street, good BBQ. The Rat Races on 5th Ave (Rex Theater) cause they had so many rats in theater, I even remember the ticket takers name: Snake Brains. And of course the old 5th Avenue Theater, lots of Roy Rogers movies, and the old Princess on Church where the Life and Casualty Tower stands (was in that theater with my brother when WWII ended, can not remember movie though, must be getting old). Used to march in parade I think some sort of Armed Forces Day Parade, I was a member of Naval Reserves in Shelby Park, the building was built like a ship, does it still stand there, also had a submarine on the Cubmerland River. Worked for Western Union on 4th Ave. in old Stahlman Building back then prior to going Active Duty with Navy in 50s, served until 79. Worked for Navy as a civilian after retiring in 2000 here in Philippine Islands now, send me some emails if you remember the good old days of Nashville, when coffee was 5 cents, a loaf of breach was 10 cents, a good lunch with drink was 25 cents, a movie was 12 cents, you could buy a house and 250 acres of farm land outside Nashville for around $2,500, thats right I was only about 10 but still remember the farm going out the Harding Road, I bet it would sell for around $50,000 now. Best regards to all in Nashville who remember Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Fruit Jar Drinkers, Minnie Pearl, Ernest Tubb, String Bean, Jamup and Honey, Uncle Dave Makin and his son Doris, Rod Brassfield, Hank Snow, The Louvin Brothers, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, all for 25 cent admission to the Grand Ole Opry on 5th Ave., just in back of the Blue Bird Club and across the street was the Hitchin Post Bar. Old Hank used to get drunk their before his show, and God Bless him, he still could sing pretty good even loaded. |
| Name: | Merrill Patterson |
| E-mail address: | meril105@frontiernet.net |
| Comments: | My, My. Those were great days. Thanks for bringing them back again. |
| Name: | Karen Blan |
| E-mail address: | notbland@bellsouth.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ahoneyofadeal.com |
| Comments: | I am so glad that you put a reference to Bunnyland in your memoir...I have such fond memories of going "downtown" with my grandmother and my sister to go shopping. We would ride the bus since my grandmother never learned to drive. We spent the day shopping at the "dime store" and at Easter would walk through Bunnyland and then eat lunch in the Iris room. As a child it was truly magical... |
| Name: | bettie |
| E-mail address: | nascar96211@comcast.net |
| Comments: | i loved reading this. it took me back to peaceful days
back then. wish things were still that way. now days every is to stressful, reading this helps releave the stress. thank you very much for this. i needed it. merry christmas & have a good new year bettie antioch high school 1977 |
| Name: | Kathy Powell Summers |
| E-mail address: | kathysum@bellsouth.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://fourstarsinthewindow.com |
| Comments: | When I saw the Shakeys Pizza logo, I started to cry. I spent many wonderful Friday and Saturday nights there, listening to Mac, Pete, Louis, and the guest players who would drop by after getting off work from the Dixieland Pavilion at Opryland. Mac, Pete and Louis cheered me when I was blue, lifted my spirits when I was tired (I worked days at a publishing house and nights at Opryland). Thank you for all the wonderful photographs that are also pages from my childhood. |
| Name: | Paul Darden |
| Comments: | Our old home place still stands at 6th Avenue, North and Taylor where we moved after living on 5th Avenue, and 4th Avenue. I started school at Fehr on 5th, but Taylor was the dividing line and I had to go to Buena Vista, then to North High School, graduating in 1949. We have a school reunion every year and I look forward to seeing old school mates each year with attendance around 300. I am attending Monroe Street UMC at 7th and Monroe, where I went to Sunday School when I was 10 years old, started going there on their 100th Anniversary in April 2006, again, and there are so many North friends in that church including Robert (Pinhead)Link, who has been a member of that church all his 90 plus years. |
| Name: | Paul Darden |
| E-mail address: | pmd12931@bellsouth.net |
| Name: | Paul H. Boyte |
| E-mail address: | fotopaul@sbcglobal.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://North High & CMI |
| Comments: | I remember graduating from North High in 1949, the year our baseball team won the state championship and runners up in the southeastern tournament. Also, CMI won the league championship that same year. In September 2007 nine members held a reunion in Nashville celebrating those events. |
| Name: | Tonya Leibfritz |
| E-mail address: | TLeibfritz@tds.com |
| Comments: | If anyone remembers a restaurant named Eagle Nest,please email me at Tleibfritz@tds.net or call me at 615-287-3086. They served Eagle Burgers and purple cows and was opened in the 1950's. My father owned it with his friend and he passed away a couple of years ago, I would like some pictures of it but my family cannot even tell me the name of the street it was on in Nashville. Any stories, pictures, or just memories would be important to me. |
| Name: | Charles Powell |
| E-mail address: | palwr@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Wayne Veach |
| E-mail address: | cwveach@comcast.net |
| Comments: | This really brings back some memories...
Met my future wife at the Hippodrome (I was 16, she was 14) Graduated from Hume-Fogg in '64 Used to play in the band at the YMCA on Saturday nights Remember the blizzard of '51 (I was 5 years old) My wife once worked at Harvey's wrapping Christmas presents Loved to eat at Hershal's Tic Toc on Church Street Bought musical instruments from Hewgley's Music Store on Commerce Remember Dr Carl Seyfert's death in a car wreck Remember when the second TV station came on the air (caused a fight every day between my sister and me over what to watch: Howdy Doody or American Bandstand) Remember what a great time I had growing up in Nashville! Wayne |
| Name: | DON PUGH |
| E-mail address: | DON.PUGH@COMCAST.NET |
| Name: | Peggy (Lee) Roberts |
| E-mail address: | pegro55@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Attended Glencliff High School until busing began in the fall of 1971. (Glencliff was not mentioned as one of the high schools in Nashville during the days of Isaac Litton and all the others.) Graduated from a private school (which lasted only a couple of years) in 1973. Still consider Glencliff to be my Alma Mater.
This brought back many good memories for me! Still... much of it was before my time. It's amazing how much things have changed over the years. I remember when the first interstate opened in Nashville, back in the late 60's. By the way, they called Scott Shannon (the local DJ at WMAK you mentioned) "Super Shan." Don't forget the sight and smell of fresh nuts and candy at Sears Roebuck on Lafayette, when you first walked in the door! Thanks for a great walk down Memory Lane! |
| Name: | misty dodson |
| E-mail address: | nascar_chic20@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i am looking for something on the race trak that use to be here in smyrna my dad race there and the pic we had got wet and messed up and i was try to see if there was any one that i could get in touch with to see if there where any more around ..
thaks misty dodson |
| Name: | Ernie Moore |
| E-mail address: | ernie.moore@comcast.net |
| Name: | Don Bramham |
| E-mail address: | hayrake31@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Grad. Hillsboro 1950 |
| Name: | Nolan Sharbel |
| E-mail address: | deeds@alliedtitle.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://alliedtitle.com |
| Comments: | Those were the days my friend, I wished they'd never end. Semper Fi, Nolan |
| Name: | Debbie Inman Trombley |
| E-mail address: | trombleyteam@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | What wonderful memories! Thanks so much for compiling all of this. |
| Name: | Bobby Magers |
| E-mail address: | Bobjmagers375@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I went to Hume Fogg, class of 60. remember the drug store across the street and cherry and vanilla cokes? remember Krispy Kreme on gallatin Road. My uncle was a cop and he patrolled downtown by Harvey's. he got me a job there for .75 cents an hour. I then went to the Lowes theater and was an usher, also .75 cents an hour. |
| Name: | Bobby Magers |
| E-mail address: | Bobjmagers375@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | It sure did bring back memories, especially the popcorn man at Woolworths. That was the best popcorn in the world. I also remmebr the big hulabuloo about the flying purple people eater in downtown when the plane flew over and dropped something, I can't remember what. How about Porter Waggoner walking around downtownwith all his special jackets. |
| Name: | Michele Ponder Baseheart |
| E-mail address: | michele.baseheart@prkmc.com |
| Comments: | It's fascinating to see some of these pictures. I was born in Baptist Hospital in 1957 and graduated from DuPont High School in 1975. I left Nashville in 2000 for the sunny state of Florida. I would love to see photographs of the cafeteria at Harvey's, The inside of the Elk's Lodge (I remember red carpet and a winding staircase)and the B & W Cafeteria. I still have my "Do Bee A Good Bee" cup that I purchased with trading stamps there. I believe Romper Room was the show that the "Do Bee" came from. Somewhere I have many photographs of Fair Park that were taken a week before it was torn down. I will share them if I can find them. Thanks for the memories,
Michele |
| Name: | Mike Brooks |
| E-mail address: | left63@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thank's for the memories |
| Name: | Don O'Guin |
| E-mail address: | doguin@optonline.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.linkedin.com/in/donoguin |
| Comments: | This is a terrific site and a real trip down memory lane in Nashville. I moved from nashville in 1973 and come back 2-3 times a year to see family and friends. While the city has shown immense progress and lots of new building, it is still heart warming to read "how it used to be" as a samller city. |
| Name: | Barbie Linder |
| E-mail address: | BCL32072@aol.com |
| Name: | DON RAINEY |
| E-mail address: | RAINMAN9927@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | THIS IS A GREAT MEMORY LANE, I WAS A SENIOR AT HUME FOGG IN 1953 THAT WAS THE GOOD TIMES, CANDY LAND,THE MONDAY MORNING DANCES IN THE GYM , AND ON OUR FOOTBALL TEAM WE ONLY HAD 15 PLAYERS, BUT COACH ALLEN LUCKY KNOX MADE IT WORK. |
| Name: | Virginia Coe England |
| E-mail address: | englandvs@netzero.net |
| Comments: | This was truly amazing. Until a friend to click on the links. I had missed some great treats. |
| Name: | Betty Greer Kurmes |
| E-mail address: | bgkurmes@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I REALLY LOVE YOU MEMORIES. mY FAMILY MOVED FROM NASHVILLE AREA IN 1957 TO TEXAS FOR MY FATHERS HEALTH. I REMEMBER GETTING LOST IN HARVEYS AT CHRISTMAS TIME. THE LIGHTS AND DECORATIONS WERE SO BEAUTIFUL, I WAS EIGHT. WE USE TO GO TO SEE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DOWNTOWN AND ANY TIME OF THE YEAR WE COULD GO TO WATCH THE FOUNTAINS AT THE COURT HOUSE (I THINK) IT WAS ON TOP OF THE HILL CLOSE TO THE RIVER. WE WOULD TAKE THE WOODLAND STREET BRIDGE TO OUR HOME.
REMEMBERANCE OF THE FERRY WAS WONDERFUL BECAUSE NOW I HAVE A NAME TO PUT WITH THE FERRY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE MEMORIES. BETTY GREER KURMES IN TEXAS. |
| Name: | Clinton E. Brown |
| E-mail address: | opacharliebrown@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I had a televison career in Nashville that was short lived. I danced on Dave Overtons 5:00 O'clock Hop on WSM Channel 4 in 1958. Do you remember the Hop? |
| Name: | Janice Curlee Robertson |
| E-mail address: | janlarrob@aol.com |
| Comments: | What a treasure! I can remember just about everything on the list. I didn't see an old t.v. program that came on called the "Noel Ball Show". They had people on there who pantomimed records. It may have been listed and I may have missed it. Thanks for all the work that had to have gone into making this list. |
| Name: | T. D. Hawkins |
| E-mail address: | tdhawkins@suncoastcpas.com |
| Comments: | Although Shelbyville was my hometown when I was a child, I remember many of the events of Nashville. My wife, Blondie, is from Nashville and really enjoyed the "Dreambook". Thank you for recording our walk down memory lane. |
| Name: | Edward D. "Buzzie" Hagan |
| E-mail address: | edhagan35@bellsouth;net |
| Comments: | I'm still looking for old Nashville friends--any of 'em. Lived in he Harding Court aparments in the late 30s and on Kenner Avenue in the West End until 1947, Lived across the street from Billy Wade and his parents and brother. I attended part of 2nd grade at Woodmont School; grades three to five at Cathedral, and six at Overbrook.
Does anyone remember Suburban Bus Lines? The owner's children, Butch and Dev Trainor, were among my neighbors and playmates. When we left Nashville in '47, E. J. Jordan, then manager of the Belle Meade Theatre, moved into our home at 107 Kenner Avenue. Boy, did I love Music City. Cried like a baby when we moved away; I was 12 at the time. |
| Name: | william warrick |
| E-mail address: | bibble27973@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | thanks for the memories |
| Name: | Janice (Caruthers) Mitchell |
| E-mail address: | janicemitchell2sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I loved reading about Nashville. I moved away many years ago, but my heart is still there. I visit as often as possible. |
| Name: | Jason Goldtrap |
| E-mail address: | Jason@HappyTalk.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.jasongoldtrap.com |
| Comments: | I lived in Inglewood from 1978-1984 and then Madison from 1984-1993. I remember one summer (84 or 85) someone built a big cement mountain which had a waterslide. The waterslide had 2 or three shoots. It was never any real competitor of the Water Boggan over near Opryland or the nearby Wave Pool. Anyhoo, I went once and scraped my elbows. Does this ring a bell?
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| Name: | Don & Dean Lawrence |
| E-mail address: | ddlawrence1@juno.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for this site.
It sure stirs up a lot of wonderful memories. Dean and I were high school sweethearts at Hume Fogg Tech. I graduated in 1952. she in 1953. 55th anniversary coming up in December. |
| Name: | Jodi Lewis |
| E-mail address: | dpd148@charter.net |
| Comments: | This is great - thank you so much for putting this in writing!! |
| Name: | Sarah Helen (McCloud) Krieger |
| E-mail address: | Sarahhelen@insightbb.com |
| Comments: | Brings back a lot of memories, of my years at East Nashville High School. |
| Name: | Sonia Worsham |
| Comments: | Who could forget the White Castle next to East High School. Best frozen treats in the world.
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| Name: | Rebecca |
| E-mail address: | RandJ43@aol.com |
| Comments: | It was fun reading all this, I remembered some. |
| Name: | Bertha Clark Anderson |
| E-mail address: | band433@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for all the old memories. |
| Name: | larry neuhoff |
| E-mail address: | lneuhoff@san.rr.com |
| Comments: | Haven't visited for a while. Graduated (barely) West End High 1958. Remember Sulpher Dell, Nick's (three-way)
Worked at Kroger, yea! Now live in San Diego, plan to be at the 50th reunion next year. Let's see, will my pants with the 28" waist still fit? yeah, right. Larry |
| Name: | Bill Dozier |
| E-mail address: | attyinv@aol.com |
| Comments: | Born St. Thomas in 12/46. Lived on Craighead St. for first few years and attended Ransom Elementary for first grade. Remember rest/time there on cots with lights out each day. Moved to east Nashville/Inglewood area and attended Jere Baxter, Inglewood and Rosebank Elemenataries followed by Isaac Litton Jr. and Stratford High. I remember the Inglewood theater and Montague Drive-In on Gallatin Road. Great memories and can still taste that Charlie Nickens BBQ! Left Nashville for good in '65 and get lost when up there now on rare occasions. So many fond memories. Anyone remember a park/swimming pool by name of Horn/Horne Springs? Trying to find details.
Bill Dozier |
| Name: | Vicky Rice |
| E-mail address: | mygranny55@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | what a great site. I went to Donelson and have very fond memories of my teen years. It was a great time in my life |
| Name: | Pam Brown |
| E-mail address: | pbrown@umpublishing.org |
| Comments: | What a cool trip down "memory lane!" |
| Name: | charles b walker |
| E-mail address: | cwalkermagic@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i am 85 years old. i remember ALL those memories. that was the good old days. i surely wish nowadays was like those good memories. |
| Name: | Beth LaPenna |
| E-mail address: | Hopegrace111@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Anyone remember the Italian Street Festival? One of the fun games was "going fishing" . They gave you a fishing pole - you threw it behind a cutain and hidden lady volunteers would clothespin a prize to your pole. Another memory is when Christ Church at 9th and Broad would crown a King and Queen of the Mardi Gras in the 1950's. My sister Pam was Queen and so was my cousin. Many of us kids served in supporting roles for the Court costumed as The Duchess of Buckingham, Duke of Windsor, etc. All money raised went to charity. |
| Name: | Harold Kilburn |
| E-mail address: | yawlcome2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Bridges over the Cumberland River in Nashville of the 50s, they were Jefferson Street Bridge (have to cross here to go to Charlie Nickens BBQ, best BBQ in world)
Woodland Street Bridge (go over here to go Downtown to Tony The Chilli King (best 3 way chilli in the world, good beef stew also. Shelby Street Bridge (go over here to connect you to Broadway Ernest Tubbs Record Shop, Grand Ole Opry etc. Other ones but I dont remember the names, one went to Bordeaux, also railraod bridge went over near Shelby Park, boy, my memory is still good at this age, but, what did I do with those uppers. |
| Name: | DURENDA WILKINSON HOOD |
| E-mail address: | durenda108@netzero.com |
| Comments: | THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS WEB SITE. I HAVE WALKED DOWN MEMORY LANE FROM MY EARLY CHILDHOOD TO MY EARLY ADULTHOOD. I TRULY CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HAVE ENJOYED THIS,I WILL BE PASSING THIS SITE ON TO EVERYONE I KNOW. THESE MEMORIES TRULY ARE THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
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| Name: | Carolyn C Fox |
| E-mail address: | carolyn_fox@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Thanks for the Memories. I laughed, I cried and I enjoyed it all. |
| Name: | Shelby Muller |
| E-mail address: | shlgto@comcast.net |
| Comments: | What a great trip down memory lane.
Thanks |
| Name: | Roy McIntoah |
| E-mail address: | mc487@netzero.Net |
| Comments: | gerat book |
| Name: | melissa miller |
| E-mail address: | califpoppy55@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | just remembered another place we went for toys,Amdhurs(not sure if that is right) toy store near the Melrose plumbing company on 8th avenue. what a treat to go in thre with a dollar and walk out with two bags full of stuff! I also remember having colas and ice cream delivered to the door by a drug store down the street from my grandmother's house. We also had milk delivered,our dry cleaning picked up and grocery trucks coming to our neigborhood. |
| Name: | Steve Melton |
| E-mail address: | unclesam328@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Do you remember when you did your real Christmas shopping downtown? |
| Name: | melissa miller |
| E-mail address: | califpoppy55@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | this site brings back so many happy memories from my childhood in Nashville. I remember going to a drive in movie and playing on the swings. All the parks had day camps in the summer and swimming polls that were FREE! going downtown for lunch at Cain Sloan or Harvey's was such a treat. My father worked at the TENNESSEAN paper and WLAC,and going to work with him was the highlight of summer vacation. Remember the stock car races on Friday? Thanks for a walk down memory lane. |
| Name: | melissa miller |
| E-mail address: | califpoppy55@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Boy,does this page bring back a lot of old memories! I was born and raised in Nashville and remember so many of the things you mention. I remember Fair Park and the train and the live TV show from there on Saturdays. My dad worked at the Tennessean in the sports dept and then at WLAC radio,doing the morning drive show from atop the L&C tower and then introduced afternoon drive time music,playing jazz. I knew "hoss" Allen and John Richman and all the other people at the station! I loved going to the movies downtown,at the movie palaces,and shopping on Church street. I was in Nashville nine years ago and just didn't recognize anything. All my old faves were gone. But with this page,I can reminisce again. Thanks! Melissa Miller |
| Name: | Clinton "Charlie" Brown |
| E-mail address: | opacharliebrown@comcast.net |
| Comments: | How is your Nashville trivia knowledge? What were the names of the four downtown theater's and their location in Nashville in the early 60's. |
| Name: | Clinton "Charlie" Brown |
| E-mail address: | opacharliebrown@comcast.net |
| Comments: | WOW!!! Each time I visit this site I drift back to the good ole days in Nashville. In April 1963 at the Quality Eat Shop @ 10th and Woodland a little know muscian by the name of Curly Day came into the restaurant. I remember him sitting at a table and picking his guitar. He began to pen a song about the recent death of Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Combot Copas, and Randy Hughes the airplane pilot. Many of the words to that song I remember so vividly today. It went like this: "It was on a Tuesday evening in 1963, a boarded private aircraft, a Piper Comanche. They were Music City when disaster tore them down in the swampy hills of Camden Tennessee. Their names will live forever as friends and sweethearts cry. We'll never know the reason why loved ones have to die." (Memory starts to become vague here) The rest I remember was "Randy Hughes the airplane pilot and the lovely Patsy Cline ...." Curly Day made this into a record and on the flip side if I remember correctly was a song called "Mom I'm Coming Home." These song stay in my mind today but the phrase in the later song "Mom keep the lamplight burning, I'm coming home always comes to mind when I have the opportunity to visit my home Nashville. If anyone would know where a copy of this recording could be found I would love to know. |
| Name: | smokeydog001 |
| E-mail address: | smokeydog001@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | This is a GREAT site!! Does anyone have any info, or know where to find it, concerning Old Hickory Blvd? When it was built and other interesting facts? |
| Name: | bill murray |
| E-mail address: | bmurray@dcgengineering.com |
| Name: | Jan Fridrichsen |
| E-mail address: | janfrid@aol.com |
| Name: | Harry W. "Skeeter" Bolin |
| E-mail address: | cyberdyevr@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Graduated Donelson High School 1955. Class mate was Gerre Anne Goss. You totally left out one of the most important pieces of memorabilia from that era. The Noel Ball Show! Channel 4 (I believe) every afternoon, five days a week, Patsy, Gerre Anne were the two paid employees that appeared every day doing pantomine and Gerre Anne was a professional dancer and did a self coreographed dance with every song she was assigned by Mr. Ball. We had our very own version of American Bandstand, just with Noel Ball instead of Dick Clark. This definitely needs to be included here as everyone in Nashville knew who Gerre Anne Goss was as well as Noel Ball and rushed home from school to see that day's show. Ms. Goss would then proceed on to Chester's for her costume for the next day's show and THEN on to Miss Pauline's Dance Studio on West End where she was an instructoeall through Jr. High and High School. |
| Name: | Jack Perry |
| E-mail address: | jrperry480@iglou.com |
| Comments: | Does anyone know where I can get the recipe for Jim Coursey Barbeque Sauce? I understand it is no longer produced. SOS. JP |
| Name: | Sheryl |
| E-mail address: | sherylminter@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.maltesemommystore.com |
| Comments: | I remember panning for gold at the Knoxberry Farm. I was very young and really Had fun there. My mom bought me a little bronz donkey as a souvenir. |
| Name: | Jimmy Linton |
| E-mail address: | wbrucelinton@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | does anyone else remember the tradgedy of the Kilgore murder in 1979 Ramsey Kilgore killed his wife Patsy Leigh Ann their daughter was in my class at David Lipscomb? anyone else remember this horrible event? |
| Name: | Lydia (VAUGHN) Webb |
| E-mail address: | webbacres@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | My family lived in Nashville on south 17th street near Shelby Park from about 1959- 1964, we left nashville in 64 and our old house burned down after we left.
We were the Vaughn family and I was the youngest at the time my siblings were Jennie Richie Ronnie Sylvia and Mike. My oldest sister Jennie still talkes of to good old days in Nashville and some of the people she knew such as Linda Bingham, Barbara Elliott, Janie Russel and there were some boyfriends names that I can't remember at this time. There was also some guy that walked around the neighborhood dressed like String bean and pretended he was playing the banjo. If anyone here remembers my oldest sister Jennie, let me know, I know she would love to hear from some of her old pals. |
| Name: | Bette (Loventhal) Siegel |
| E-mail address: | bette.siegel@state.tn.us |
| Comments: | I LOVE this website on Nashville Memories!!
I was born in Nashville in 1948, went to Ransom Elementary School and graduated from West End High School in 1966. I grew up on 30th Avenue So. off West End Avenue. Went to Tiny Tim's for a burger, Richland Market, Candyland, Hippodrome skating Rink, & Elder's Bookstore. Anyone remember these places? Went to Youth Incorporated Camp in the late 50's & early 60's for a couple of weeks in the Summer. Went to lots of dances with all the great combos that played in West Meade, Hillwood & especially in the downstairs area of Belle Meade Buffet? Anyone remember those dances!!! My first love was Randy Dozier (still think about him often). You never forget your first love. |
| Name: | Bette (Loventhal) Siegel |
| E-mail address: | bette.siegel@state.tn.us |
| Comments: | I LOVE this website on Nashville Memories!!
I was born in Nashville in 1948, went to Ransom Elementary School and graduated from West End High School in 1966. I grew up on 30th Avenue So. off West End Avenue. Went to Tiny Tim's for a burger, Richland Market, Candyland, Hippodrome skating Rink, & Elder's Bookstore. Anyone remember these places? Went to Youth Incorporated Camp in the late 50's & early 60's for a couple of weeks in the Summer. Went to lots of dances with all the great combos that played in West Meade, Hillwood & especially in the downstairs area of Belle Meade Buffet? Anyone remember those dances!!! My first love was Randy Dozier (still think about him often). You never forget your first love. |
| Name: | Steve Beasley |
| Comments: | Lived in Belle Meade from '55-'65. Am convinced Richland creek still holds some Civil War secrets yet discovered. |
| Name: | Carol Williamson |
| E-mail address: | carol.williamson@cpsb.org |
| Comments: | Thank you. I could show my children pictures of my memories. Fantastic |
| Name: | Lee Hays |
| E-mail address: | haysl@erau.edu |
| Comments: | Does anyone remember "Miss Pauline's School of the Dance"? It was located on West End somewhere between downtown and Centennial Park. I was forced to go there at age 11 by my mother who wanted me to be cultured and I took tap dancing, oooh gosh!! I was the only guy amongst 10-15 little girls all dressed in black leotards. (I refused to wear one of those). Also, in the same area was a restaurant called Marchettis. My dad really liked that place which went under of course.
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| Name: | Cynthia (Judd) Gunter |
| E-mail address: | bill297@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Just came across this site. Put it in my favorite places and plan to visit it ofter. I Graduated from Central High in 1957 and recently went to our 50th reunion. |
| Name: | John Richards ILHS '61 |
| E-mail address: | jsrandklr@metrocast.net |
| Comments: | Teen days in Nashville were wonderful! I was pleased to be the sax player in the Monarks (Nashville's second rock band). Other members were Johnny Sturdivant (the leader), Ernie Winfrey and Donny Green, occasionally joined by Preston Thompson. We first practiced in the recreation hall at Inglewood Methodist Church. We played regularly for Chief Cannon's Teentowns in the basement of the Inglewood-Madison Fire Department building. I can still recall the sounds of "Raunchy"
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| Name: | Mary Clark Garrett |
| E-mail address: | respar45@comcast.net |
| Comments: | That stoll down memory lane was great. I remember it all like yesterday. I remember when the Third National Bank building, at the corner of Charlotte and well, I can't remember the cross street, was finished there was a golden dome. Along with my brothers Tommy, and David, we walked a mile or more to see if it might be a UFO in West Nashville.
Those were the daze. |
| Name: | Martha Lewis Pack |
| E-mail address: | mpack@realtracs.com |
| Comments: | This is great. Thanks for the memories!! |
| Name: | Margo Crigler Morrison |
| E-mail address: | mcmorris@southernco.com |
| Comments: | Love this site. I started going to Nashville in the 40s when my sister got her braces from Dr. Oliver. Every month we drove for her check-up. Memories of lunch at The Spot - where we ordered perch and fries. We shopped at all the downtown stores - Harvey's, Cain Sloan's, Chester's, Castner-Knott's, Gus Mayer's. All great. Butterscotch parfaits at Harvey's counter downstairs. Then had watch repairs done at Steif's. And best lunch in the world at Cross-Key's where we ordered the cherry date nut macaroon pie. Movies were a treat. One of the theatres had a live organist before the movie started. We loved that. Of course the Parthenon and Centennial Park and don't forget Printer's Alley and the Brass Rail later when a teenager. Also Joy's Flowers. |
| Name: | Valerie Boegel |
| Comments: | I moved to Clarksville in September 1974. Travel from Clarksville to shop at the 100 Oaks Mall or Opryland was 41A or Highway 12. finally I24 was completed connecting Clarksville to Nashville. |
| Name: | SCOOT IRWIN |
| E-mail address: | scootirwin37@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Boy, this stirred up some ghosts for me. I started going to Nashville in 1949 with my parents, 3 or 4 times a year. We always stayed at the Savoy on 7th near Church. In those days, you had to reserve your Opry tickets a month or two in advance. I'd always hang out backstage at the Ryman, getting all the stars autographs. Little Jimmy Dickens was my hero. I was there when Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two made their first appearance. I always dreamed of performing on the Ryman stage one day. Lo and behold, in May of 1966, that dream came true, making me the 4th Canadian to appear. Ended up performing there 9 times that year. Loved your site. Thanks for the memories. Scoot. |
| Name: | Francine Petersen Sharpe |
| E-mail address: | francine.sharpe@state.tn.us |
| Comments: | How wonderful to see these pictures and read about all the things and places now gone.
Thank you all for bringing all these wonderful memories back. I am still smiling and will have a Big Smile for the rest to this Holiday Weekend. I am going to add this to my favorites on my computer. |
| Name: | Annette Henley Sherrill |
| E-mail address: | ssherrill@csc.com |
| Comments: | I really enjoyed this so much. It really brings backs a lot of "GREAT" memories. |
| Name: | Ross George |
| E-mail address: | bigchief1@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Been visiting this site for a couple of years since a friend sent me a link.
I was born at St. Thomas on Groundhog Day (2 Feb), 1956. Grew up predominately in South Nashville. Went to Turner Elementary (been a book repository for years now). Was a patrol boy on the corner of Buford Hoskin's Esso and later was the Captain and had the primo spot right in front of the schoolhouse. James Francis' mom was the Patrol Lady. Went to Wright Jr. High when it was still new. Went on to Glencliff for a year and a half (couldn't stand it!), and transferred to Hume Fogg in the middle of my junior year, graduating in 1974. Joined the USAF in Jan 75 and never went back. Spent 22 years in the AF, retiring Jan 97. Worked for Lockheed Martin for 10 years, now a Federal govt employee at the U.S. Census Bureau outside Wash, D.C. My how fun flies when you're having time... Great site for a great city. Suffice to say, "It ain't nuthin' like it used ta be..." Give a holler to an old Woodbine boy! Ross George |
| Name: | Ross George |
| E-mail address: | bigchief1@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Been visiting this site for a couple of years since a friend sent me a link.
I was born at St. Thomas on Groundhog Day (2 Feb), 1956. Grew up predominately in South Nashville. Went to Turner Elementary (been a book repository for years now). Was a patrol boy on the corner of Buford Hoskin's Esso and later was the Captain and had the primo spot right in front of the schoolhouse. James Francis' mom was the Patrol Lady. Went to Wright Jr. High when it was still new. Went on to Glencliff for a year and a half (couldn't stand it!), and transferred to Hume Fogg in the middle of my junior year, graduating in 1974. Joined the USAF in Jan 75 and never went back. Spent 22 years in the AF, retiring Jan 97. Worked for Lockheed Martin for 10 years, now a Federal govt employee at the U.S. Census Bureau outside Wash, D.C. My how fun flies when you're having time... Great site for a great city. Suffice to say, "It ain't nuthin' like it used ta be..." Give a holler to an old Woodbine boy! Ross George |
| Name: | Jimmy Bishop |
| E-mail address: | jwbish@comcast.net |
| Name: | Linda Baker |
| E-mail address: | Linda.baker@willis.com |
| Comments: | 1963 Graduate of West High School..the last year it was a High School.
The memories are WONDERFUL ! ! ! ! |
| Name: | Joan White |
| E-mail address: | justright42day@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | FINALLY, The monorail --- I have spoken to many people that grew up in Nashville my age (52) and NO one ever remembered the Monorail.... after a while I thought I must have dreamed it ..
Thank you for your site it brings back so many memories and I can not wait to tell my friends about it. Thanks Joan White |
| Name: | blaine mason |
| E-mail address: | cushman42@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was born 4/29/42 @ St. Thomas. I lived at 2709 Ford Ave. and went to George Knox 1st thru 3rd grade My tel # was 70410J Some of my classmates were Larry Speller. Pudd Evans. Julia Green, Harriet Gilliam, Michael Posner and Ashley Parsons. My mother had a Cub Scoutt pack. My 1st grade teacher was Martha Suggs, 2nd grade was Emma Rutledge and the third frade teacher was Ruth Baskett. I mover to Englewood 4th thru 6th and lived on Scott Ave. I moved to Goodlettsville 6th thru 9th where I rode a 1954 Cushman Eagle and carried a paper route. I moved to Antioch and lived there from 1956 thru 1960. I drove a white 1954 Chevrolet and ran in F stock class at Union Hill along with Buddy Shumate and others. I joined the Marines in 1960 and made a career of it serving three years in Vietnam. I have been married 24 years and have a son Patrick who teachs in Nashville amd have a granddaughter Zoe 2 with another on the way! I own my own business and have for over 20 years. I still ride and collect Cushman Scooters and many other antiques and collectibles. I live in Chesterfield, Va. My cel number is 804 241-0139 if any old friends would like to call or are visiting the Richmond, VA area and would like to stop by.
Thanks for reading the rambling of the old Scooter Dude. Keep them in the wind. |
| Name: | blaine mason |
| E-mail address: | cushman42@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was born 4/29/42 @ St. Thomas. I lived at 4709 Ford Ave. and went to George Knox 1st thru 3rd grade My tel # was 70410J Some of my classmates were Larry Speller. Pudd Evans. Julia Green, Harriet Gilliam, Michael Posner and Ashley Parsons. My mother had a Cub Scoutt pack. My 1st grade teacher was Martha Suggs, 2nd grade was Emma Rutledge and the third frade teacher was Ruth Baskett. I mover to Englewood 4th thru 6th and lived on Scott Ave. I moved to Goodlettsville 6th thru 9th where I rode a 1954 Cushman Eagle and carried a paper route. I moved to Antioch and lived there from 1956 thru 1960. I drove a white 1954 Chevrolet and ran in F stock class at Union Hill along with Buddu Shumate and others. I joined the Marimes in 1960 and made a career of it serving three years in Vietnam. I have been married 24 years and have a son Patrick who teachs in Nashville amd have a granddaughter Zoe 2 with another on the way! I own my own business and have for over 20 years. I still ride and collect Cushman Scooters and many other antiques and collectibles. I live in Chesterfield, Va. My cel number is 804 241-0139 if any old friends would like to call or are visiting the Richmond, VA area and would like to stop by.
Thanks for reading the rambling of the old Scooter Dude. Keep them in the wind. |
| Name: | Gene Brown |
| E-mail address: | gene.brown@biwood.com |
| Comments: | I was born in Nashville in 1950 and spent 8 years there prior to moving to Memphis. I have many fond memories of the Hippodrome and Centennial Park. I attended Miss. Reeves private school for two years but I can't find any information on that school. I would love to know if anyone else has heard of that school. I believe it was on Poston St. one block north of West End and across form Centennial Park. |
| Name: | Harold Dean Kilburn |
| E-mail address: | yawlcome2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Despirately seeking Susan, Patty Ann, Earlene, Shirley's, or other girl friends that I cant recall their names, went to Schwab grade 1-8, Litton H.S. 9-11, Hume Fogg, 12, class of 1957. Worked for Western Union on Church St. during after school hours. Drove 46 Ford, 49 Chevy, do you remember scating, wrestling matches at Fairgrounds, grand ole opry. Attended Grubbs Memorial Babtist Church most of childhood, were you there? Met many friends at Shelby Park swimming pool, attended movies at Roxy, Princess, 5th Avenue, Rex, Paramount, Loews, Knickerbocker, and Tennessee Theater. Do you recall the Hugh Cherry talent contest on Saturdays at the Loews, he went on to be a big time jockey in Los Angeles, now I am retired, living in the Philippines. Drop me a line, even if your name is not Shirley. It seems that in the 50s everyone was either named Shirley, Peggy Sue, Patty Ann, or Mabeline.......dean in Baguio City, Philippines |
| Name: | Jimmy Cripps |
| E-mail address: | crippsjl@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | class of 68 Madison High, Neely's Bend Jr High, Stratton Elementary. |
| Name: | Brenda (Kurz) Cripps |
| E-mail address: | crippsjl@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | I was a "regular" at the Saturday nite Co-ed. I remember that sometimes we danced to the juke-box (free songs all nite). Sometimes they had a live combo, some local teen groups that wanted the experience and the fun of performing for other kids. One group had my future husband as the lead guitarist and singer though I didn't know it then. I remember several of us girls would dress up like the "go-go dancers" and dance next to the stage to help the band out. Remeber dancing the "Jerk", the "Monkey", "Swim", even the "Twist". But when you danced the "Dog" you better keep your feet moving to keep it from becoming the "dirty dog" and the manager would escort you from the dance floor. If you didn't want to dance, you could go into their film room and watch old episodes of The Little Rascals. In the summer, they would open the pool for night time swimming. But whatever you were doing, your parents knew where you were (especially after they started stamping your hand to be sure you didn't leave and then come back before your parents came to pick you up).
The best part of these memories it that we had places to go that were considered safe environments with responsible people in charge. Our kids today don't have these outlets. Friday night football or basketball games, followed by "sock hops". Saturday night dance clubs, community swimming pools, or just hanging out at Shoney's "meeting and greeting". The sixties in Nashville was a time that teenagers still had some of their innocence, but were allowed to spread their wings (but not too far or too fast). Thank you for letting me share some of my memories. Brenda Cripps attended Goodlettsville H.S. graduated Madison H.S 1969 (after I married one of their track stars) |
| Name: | Brenda (Kurz) Cripps |
| E-mail address: | crippsjl@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | I was a "regular" at the Saturday nite Co-ed. I remember that sometimes we danced to the juke-box (free songs all nite). Sometimes they had a live combo, some local teen groups that wanted the experience and the fun of performing for other kids. One group had my future husband as the lead guitarist and singer though I didn't know it then. I remember several of us girls would dress up like the "go-go dancers" and dance next to the stage to help the band out. Remeber dancing the "Jerk", the "Monkey", "Swim", even the "Twist". But when you danced the "Dog" you better keep your feet moving to keep it from becoming the "dirty dog" and the manager would escort you from the dance floor. If you didn't want to dance, you could go into their film room and watch old episodes of The Little Rascals. In the summer, they would open the pool for night time swimming. But whatever you were doing, your parents knew where you were (especially after they started stamping your hand to be sure you didn't leave and then come back before your parents came to pick you up).
The best part of these memories it that we had places to go that were considered safe environments with responsible people in charge. Our kids today don't have these outlets. Friday night football or basketball games, followed by "sock hops". Saturday night dance clubs, community swimming pools, or just hanging out at Shoney's "meeting and greeting". The sixties in Nashville was a time that teenagers still had some of their innocence, but were allowed to spread their wings (but not too far or too fast). Thank you for letting me share some of my memories. Brenda Cripps attended Goodlettsville H.S. graduated Madison H.S 1969 (after I married one of their track stars) |
| Name: | Jim Lawrence |
| E-mail address: | jlawrell@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Nashville was not a large city in the past. Can you imagine the city limits being at Cherokee Ave and West End,(Harding Rd.)Even then kids of all ages were fortunate to live in Nashville. With the quality of our radio and TV stations along with the music industry even in the "forties"we had a window on the world that other kids in cities of comperable size didn't have. This is in spite of the crazy "blue" laws and liquor regulations. There was a lot to do in Nashville then. Maybe more different things than now. I had the pleasure of being asked to escort a beautiful young lady to her prom in Louisville. You might imagine how wimpy recorded music sounded to me after dancing to the live music we had in Nashville played by some of the old coots we saw at the Doughlas Corner party.
I have tried to tell my kids what was going on here in 1957 and both my girls have said they wish they had lived here then. JL |
| Name: | Lani Burnette |
| Comments: | Grew up in Madison...most of family still in Nashville, BUT, it's not like coming home when I visit anymore. Your website has enabled me to go home again. Thank You! |
| Name: | nfsmusic.blogspot.com |
| E-mail address: | spawntheshell@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://nfsmusic.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | I really liked reading the history of Nashville before I was born ('81). I've been looking for various pictures of places I visited when I was a kid, like 100 Oaks Mall ('80s) and others like Fountain Square ('80s/'90s), etc. |
| Name: | Ollie Stewart |
| E-mail address: | olligator22@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Reading this brought back many long forgotten memories. I was born and raised here in Nashville. I went to grammer school at Una Elementary and high school at Antioch (the origional one on Blue Hole Road). |
| Name: | Ronald Cate |
| E-mail address: | rcate47@aol.com |
| Comments: | I remember a lot of kids put "cutouts" on their cars to bypass the muffler. Then we would roar around town, or back and forth between Nick's and Shoney's. People had "combo's" at their homes, charge a little to get in, and people would show up from all over. |
| Name: | Barbara Phillips |
| E-mail address: | barbaradale@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://barbaradale.yourkwagent.com/home |
| Comments: | Chip Curley you are an amazing man!!!! Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I have sat for days just mesmerized by all the memories, tears of joy in each and every one. I was born in 1952 at St Thomas Hospital. Grew up in the Natchez Trace, Blair Blvd area. Went to school at Knox, Eakin, Cavert and West End High School.........class of '67 where are you? Would love to hear from any old friends. Harvey's Nativity Scene, the pool at Cascade, the Hippodrome skating, the Kingsmen playing Louie, Louie, Sammye's Koffee Shop, the Belle Meade Theatre, Gravity Hill at Edwin Warner Park, the train rides from Union Station, 100 Oaks mall being built on a sink hole.......All such fond memories. THANK YOU CHIP CURLEY....you are an a very gifted, talented man. |
| Name: | Jenell Pearsall |
| E-mail address: | jenellnp@comcast.net |
| Comments: | These memories are great. Raised in the West End area. All of that area is gone now with Vanderbilt taking all of it over. I still have all of my memories. Spent lots of time at the Hippordrome skating rink, in fact met my husband there, as did my mother met her husband there, my brother met his wife there. So it was a special place for us. Loved Centenial park, with the Sunday shows at the Shell. Went to town for the movies on very hot days. Swam at the pool at Centenial park pool no longer there. I loved the park at the lake at CEntenial park. So many memories in Nashville. Thanks for the memories. Wish I had this in printed form. |
| Name: | GLENDA SULLIVAN THOMASON |
| E-mail address: | GTTHEGOODWITCH@BELLSOUTH.NET |
| Comments: | GRADUATED FROM WEST END HIGH SCHOOL MAY, 1956
ONE OF THE PLACES I REMEMBER THAT WAS NOT MENTIONED WAS THE HIGHWAY PUP ON HARDING RD(WEST END AVE) ACROSS FROM WHITE BRIDGE ROAD. WHERE I REMEMBER GETTING THE BEST SWISSCHEESE ON RYE SANDWICH. OF COURSE THE GUYS AND GALS COULD ALSO GET A BEER AND A BURGER. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE MID 50'S. |
| Name: | Vicki Curlin Roberson |
| E-mail address: | vroberson@carolina.rr.com |
| Comments: | What a comprehensive and delightful look back at growing up in Nashville. Thanks! |
| Name: | Raymond Pilot |
| E-mail address: | raymond.pilot@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | went to pearl high dropout in 1961 if there is any one that remembers me would like to hear form them. |
| Name: | april |
| E-mail address: | aprilwalls@realtor.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I feel a little older now but thats ok. I had forgotten lots. |
| Name: | Debbie Bard Grushon |
| E-mail address: | mgrushon@woh.rr.com |
| Comments: | Loved this website. I was trying to remember the name of many of these things just the other day. |
| Name: | Dean |
| E-mail address: | yawlcome2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Anyone remember the name of the club across from the Ryman (grand old opry) on 5th avenue. Used to see many stars there during 50s and 60s, Hank Williams, Lefty Frizell, among a few. Used to have a portable black jack table that could be closed at a moments notice. |
| Name: | Betty Westmoreland |
| E-mail address: | bwestmoreland9@msn.com |
| Comments: | When I need to stop a moment to reflect on my happy childhood in Nashville (on East Clayton Avenue and Hillmont Drive), I come here. Thanks, Chip! This spot means the world to a lot of folks. Be sure to stop at www.historicnashville.com, too, for more wonderful pictures than you can shake a stick at. I love Nashville and I get such joy from these websites. |
| Name: | Betsi Tunnell |
| E-mail address: | b.hippie@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I've been here since 1976. My aunt used to own The Village Store on Hillsboro road. Chet Atkins (and wife) hung out there as well as a bunch of other notable people. I'm still trying to remember the West End restaurant owned by the Lipman brothers. If you do, please e-mail me. |
| Name: | Mary Anne Mitchell Kobylik |
| E-mail address: | bryan.kobylik@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I love this site. I went to Rosebank and Stratford. This really brings back good memories. |
| Name: | Lisa Combs |
| E-mail address: | HAlfdzcombs@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for the memories I get homesick everytime I look at this site, I was born and raised in NAshville, Parkwood estates, Ewing Park Jr high, Brick Church elem, Madison High |
| Name: | Steve beasley |
| Comments: | Re: my entry below- Sorry, it's 1960s Nashville, not 1950s. |
| Name: | Steve Beasley |
| Comments: | For all fans of classic 50s 60s Nashville, currently on YouTube there is a home movie of 1950s Nashville taken during the winter in Belle Meade/West End shot from a moving car. The wonderful blue coolness somehow generates warmth to the heart! |
| Name: | Chuck Norris |
| E-mail address: | charles.norris@mvn02usace.army.mil |
| Comments: | I enjoyed your page,I went to Stratford high ,I remember the East Nashville Y.M.C.A. on saterday nights.in the late 60s. and going to the comunity center dances at Shelbey Park.Thanks For Input Chuck Norris |
| Name: | Nancye Richey Mercer |
| E-mail address: | nancyelmercer@cox.net |
| Comments: | This brings back wonderful memories of my birthplace
of Nashville, Tennessee. |
| Name: | Vicki Sanders |
| E-mail address: | vicki @yahhoo.com |
| Comments: | Chip, we had a spirited discussion last night and I need your help to answer the dispute where was the first Krystal in Nashville I said West End and others said there was one downtown on 4th or 5th Ave. Also I remember Griff’s very well they said it became a Burger Chef I only remember it becoming a What A Burger in Green Hills was that location ever a Burger Chef? Thanks for your help. |
| Name: | Terri Kidwell Engel |
| E-mail address: | trrengel@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks, for the memories. Enjoyed,it brought back so many memories. |
| Name: | Cynthia Sanders |
| E-mail address: | CSan637435@aol.com |
| Name: | Pete Mason |
| E-mail address: | alfred.mason@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Does anyone remember Allen Dennis-Dick Kent-Dave Randall-Joe Sullivan-Gary Douglas- and Gene Clark from WMAK?
Weren't they all djs? What years were they on? I found 2 albums at a garage sale with these guys picture on the cover and don't remember much about them. I do remember a lot about Nashville and the old East Nashville days graduating from East in 1963. I stumbled across this web site by mistake-but boy was I glad.Everything on here I can relate to as it all was a great time to be growing up in Nashville. |