Gone but not forgotten: Knoxville area restaurants and retailers we miss.

[MAD]

 

[Ted]

Gotta love that guy's outfit! Where'd you find that pic, Mad?

I remember the S&W! Not only in Knoxville, but also the one in downtown Asheville in the same time frame as the one here.

And now the Gay Street S&W is a beauty supply place and salon.. Just not the same, even if they kept the scale!

 

[Ted]

In that list from Knoxviews.com that I posted, there is a mention of Hill's department store. I remembered them, vaguely. So I looked them up. Ohio-based chain. Hills (store) - Wikipedia

Of course, the question is: where was Hill's located in Knoxville? Since it was an out of state company, there was probably just one location.

 

[Ted]

Hey Mad - another question. Your avatar is Alfred E. Neumann from Mad Magazine. (I read it too. Some of that stuff is still stuck in my head!)

DId you hear that Al Jaffee, the cartoonist for Mad Magazine, passed away recently? He was 102. I had forgotten about those fold-in art pages he did, where the cartoon was one thing, and then you folded it in and it became something else!

"The first fold-in, in the April 1964 issue (No. 86), mocked Elizabeth Taylor’s marital record. (Unfolded, she is with Richard Burton; folded, she has traded him in for another guy.)"

https://archive.is/LNWfS

 

[Ted]

@Vjcvette - I am still cracking up over that Cas Walker video!

We've done good this week - Cas Walker and Mad Jack Fielding! Two serious Knoxville characters! What other ones should we mention?

 

[MAD]

Gotta love that guy's outfit! Where'd you find that pic, Mad?

I remember the S&W! Not only in Knoxville, but also the one in downtown Asheville in the same time frame as the one here.

And now the Gay Street S&W is a beauty supply place and salon.. Just not the same, even if they kept the scale!

Love the shoes he is wearing.
I miss traditional cafeterias. Going through the line and pointing out what I wanted. My favorite was the one in West Town.

 

[MAD]

Hey Mad - another question. Your avatar is Alfred E. Neumann from Mad Magazine. (I read it too. Some of that stuff is still stuck in my head!)

DId you hear that Al Jaffee, the cartoonist for Mad Magazine, passed away recently? He was 102. I had forgotten about those fold-in art pages he did, where the cartoon was one thing, and then you folded it in and it became something else!

"The first fold-in, in the April 1964 issue (No. 86), mocked Elizabeth Taylor’s marital record. (Unfolded, she is with Richard Burton; folded, she has traded him in for another guy.)"

https://archive.is/LNWfS

That was my favorite part of the Magazine.

 

[MAD]

@Vjcvette - I am still cracking up over that Cas Walker video!

We've done good this week - Cas Walker and Mad Jack Fieldeng! Two serious Knoxville characters! What other ones should we mention?

She is some great stories about Knoxville in the 70’s.

 

[Ted]

She is some great stories about Knoxville in the 70’s.

I can't wait!

 

[MAD]

Anybody remember the Homberg Dr. Location?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

In that list from Knoxviews.com that I posted, there is a mention of Hill's department store. I remembered them, vaguely. So I looked them up. Ohio-based chain. Hills (store) - Wikipedia

Of course, the question is: where was Hill's located in Knoxville? Since it was an out of state company, there was probably just one location.

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Papermill at Kingston Pike. The building was razed and Whole Foods and the adjacent stores replaced it. The same family that owned WIVK radio (and several other stations) owned the real estate.

Another Hills location is just north of I-640 on Broadway. On the left. The building was still there last time I drove by about 10 years ago.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

In that list from Knoxviews.com that I posted, there is a mention of Hill's department store. I remembered them, vaguely. So I looked them up. Ohio-based chain. Hills (store) - Wikipedia

Of course, the question is: where was Hill's located in Knoxville? Since it was an out of state company, there was probably just one location.

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Papermill at Kingston Pike. The building was razed and Whole Foods and the adjacent stores replaced it. The same family that owned WIVK radio (and several other stations) owned the real estate.

Another Hills location is just north of I-640 on Broadway. On the left. The building was still there last time I drove by about 10 years ago.

The Hills building is still in Fountain City. It's a Big Lots now and has been for several years.

*I loved Hills when I was a kid. If I got a good report card, mom would let me get a Star Wars figure.

 

[the_todd]

In that list from Knoxviews.com that I posted, there is a mention of Hill's department store. I remembered them, vaguely. So I looked them up. Ohio-based chain. Hills (store) - Wikipedia

Of course, the question is: where was Hill's located in Knoxville? Since it was an out of state company, there was probably just one location.

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it was in Halls/fountain city

 

[Vjcvette]

@Vjcvette - I am still cracking up over that Cas Walker video!

We've done good this week - Cas Walker and Mad Jack Fieldeng! Two serious Knoxville characters! What other ones should we mention?

I will have to give that some thought, you know that there was the whole Jake Butcher impire and situation, and his abandoned mansion is on youtube

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

@Vjcvette - I am still cracking up over that Cas Walker video!

We've done good this week - Cas Walker and Mad Jack Fieldeng! Two serious Knoxville characters! What other ones should we mention?

LB Richardson of Richardson’s Exxon at Kingston Pike and Forest Park. But he didn’t do TV commercials so he wasn’t well known across all of Knoxville. He did a lot of business with the rich widows of Sequoyah Hills. He was tight with Gus and Haywood (2 more legendary Knoxville characters). He knew how to make everybody that met him smile.

 

[Ted]

Anybody remember the Homberg Dr. Location?

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Mad, you'd mentioned Bahou's previously in the thread, but I didn't catch it because I didn't recognize the name. The Bearden Kingston Pike location was where Bistro by the Tracks and Shuck were located. The Homberg Place address is currently an out-of-business event venue building.

Bahou had to have been in the 70's or 80's if they had promo matchbooks. Tell us more about your memories of Bahou's.

 

[Ted]

LB Richardson... was tight with Gus and Haywood (2 more legendary Knoxville characters).

Is this Gus still living?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Is this Gus still living?

LB passed away about 4 years ago.

Gus Manning passed away a couple months ago.

 

[Go aeiou]

Love the shoes he is wearing.
I miss traditional cafeterias. Going through the line and pointing out what I wanted. My favorite was the one in West Town.

There was a good one in Oak Ridge. We went there in the 50/60s. Can't remember the name though. My memory sucks.

 

[OldandStillaVol]

There was a good one in Oak Ridge. We went there in the 50/60s. Can't remember the name though. My memory sucks.

Davis Brothers. I think it was a small Southern chain.

 

[MAD]

There was a good one in Oak Ridge. We went there in the 50/60s. Can't remember the name though. My memory sucks.

Davis Brothers. I think it was a small Southern chain.

Location in Oak Ridge


A & P, Davis Brothers Cafeteria and Cole Drug Store at Downtown Shopping Center


Article about the chain.

Your Host Throughout The South

 

[Go aeiou]

Location in Oak Ridge
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A & P, Davis Brothers Cafeteria and Cole Drug Store at Downtown Shopping Center


Article about the chain.

Your Host Throughout The South

I worked at the A&P in high school.
I hated the job. Quit and got a better job at Jackson Square Pharmacy.

 

[Vjcvette]

Love the shoes he is wearing.
I miss traditional cafeterias. Going through the line and pointing out what I wanted. My favorite was the one in West Town.

Yes I liked that one and also S&S on Gay St.

 

[MAD]

Great little video on the history of Cumberland Ave. through the years.

 

[MAD]

world felt so different 30 years ago.