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Tin Man said:
Was Buddy's run by a black family? Did they offer a bbq chicken sandwich which was a piece of bbq chicken (bones and all) between two pieces of store-bought white bread? Was the parking lot gravel?
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There's a place in my hometown, Salaam Seafood, that served fried chicken sandwiches the same way. A fried leg quarter on white bread with lettuce, tomato, mayo, hot sauce. Same with fish sandwich. Whole fish (likely bream or crappie). Only the experienced could eat a fish sandwich and expel the bones in the process of eating.

You had to specify 'filet' sandwiches. Only place I ever got bone in fried chicken sandwiches, and they were excellent. Learned it from the folks in the cotton mill. I learned how to eat them after I got laughed at for picking the meat of the bone to make my sandwich.

They also had a fried fish salad that was simple and near religious experience. Lettuce, fried catfish nuggets, and thousand island dressing. I loved that salad more than life itself. I try to imitate it. Local chinese joint has fried fish nuggets on lunch buffet. I'll go there and make my own fish salad best I can with what I got.

Salaam Seafood, Griffin, GA. They also have whole catfish, fried shrimp, all the fixins, fried fish filets, etc. If you ever pass anywhere near Griffin, this is a must detour. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

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Tin Man said:
Was Buddy's run by a black family? Did they offer a bbq chicken sandwich which was a piece of bbq chicken (bones and all) between two pieces of store-bought white bread? Was the parking lot gravel?
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No on all the above. See https://www.knoxnews.com/picture-ga.../buddys-bbq-celebrates-anniversary/108092408/

From that article, here are Carcel "Buddy" and LaMuriel Smothers:
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Also, here is a picture of the original Buddy's in Bearden as it looked in 1972. Same location all these years!

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The bbq joint that I remember from the late 70s was open late. Restaurant and bar workers would gather there after night shift along with other late-night denizens. In those hours, the staff was black, as were at least half the patrons. White college kids mingling with the working folk peaceably, enjoying some good Q.
 
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Tin Man said:
The bbq joint that I remember from the late 70s was open late. Restaurant and bar workers would gather there after night shift along with other late-night denizens. In those hours, the staff was black, as were at least half the patrons. White college kids mingling with the working folk peaceably, enjoying some good Q.
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Buddy's BBQ sounds familiar. My grandparents lived off Chapman Hwy and John Sevier and I think there was a location nearby my grmaps would go to. But that was 30+ years ago.
 
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Tin Man said:
Was Buddy's run by a black family? Did they offer a bbq chicken sandwich which was a piece of bbq chicken (bones and all) between two pieces of store-bought white bread? Was the parking lot gravel?
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No, the Smothers are white folk.

The original Buddy’s was a hole in the wall spot. The parking lot might have been asphalt. Pick & Grin was just east of the new Buddy’s.

I think that Buddy’s was originally on the spot where their banquet hall was built on the western edge of the property.

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TVA Photographer Sam Orleans operated a movie studio in downtown Knoxville,Tennessee from the late 1940s until the mid-1960s. Sam produced hundreds of educational, training, television, entertainment, and documentary films, many now lost.Many of Orleans' films used local Knoxville actors and locations. Eagle eyed viewers will spot vintage scenes of Broadway, the Fellini Kroger, North Hills, Bearden Tourist courts, Burlington, and even downtown Maryville! See if You can spot director Orleans himself making an Alfred Hitchcock-style cameo at the White City Motor Court on Kingston Pike.Pardon the quality of this film transfer, which had been stored in a barn for many years. Through the years, the film had decomposed, shrunken, color-faded, and began to turn into dust. I worked with it a long time to bring it back to life in any form. Thank you UJ Hale for saving the reel all of these years.​



 
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THE FOUNDRY SET TO CLOSE AFTER 32 YEARS​

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The Foundry Set to Close after 32 Years | Inside of Knoxville

(Today’s article is by contributing writer K.W. (Keith) Leonard. Leonard, an English teacher with Knox County Schools, has called Knoxville home for more than thirty-five years, most of which he’s spent in South Knoxville.) I first set foot in The Foundry 30 years ago during an age when all my...
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THE FOUNDRY SET TO CLOSE AFTER 32 YEARS​

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The Foundry Set to Close after 32 Years | Inside of Knoxville

(Today’s article is by contributing writer K.W. (Keith) Leonard. Leonard, an English teacher with Knox County Schools, has called Knoxville home for more than thirty-five years, most of which he’s spent in South Knoxville.) I first set foot in The Foundry 30 years ago during an age when all my...
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Nice venue and cool history. I hope it ends up in good hands. Same deal with Lord Lyndsay.

LL will have that 20 story apartment building overlooking Neyland Drive close by. I hope that it can reopen as a successful business and not get razed by developers.
 
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