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

[GreveHaller]

Found these mentions looking around online.

Yosemite Sam's
Pickle U Pub
Bundoolee's
Vic and Bill's
Electric Wizard
Cheeks
Dan and Gracies

in the 80s they had poker and blackjack machines and would pay out.

 

[Volumnus 2011]

wasn't that were Cookout is now?

Yes. Great chicken, but the management was horrible is what I heard. That company likes to set up shop in college towns apparently.

 

[crusse10]

Yes. Great chicken, but the management was horrible is what I heard. That company likes to set up shop in college towns apparently.

their first year a good buddy of mine talked with the owner and had a great rapport with him so the owner said he could park there free of charge for football games

 

[ImLoco4Vols]

Think you mean 89

Yep sorry, some of those days are a bit fuzzy.

 

[Tin Man]

Found these mentions looking around online.

Yosemite Sam's
Pickle U Pub
Bundoolee's

I remember these from the '70s...

 

[Biopsyman]

What ever happened to Tall Paul?

 

[crusse10]

What ever happened to Tall Paul?

He still plays some places. Last I saw, tallpaul.com still had a good grasp on where he's playing

 

[Aavoxx]

Peg Leg Porker has a Tall Paul night.

 

[WallyBalls]

Not exactly Knoxville, but surely someone else ate there...Snow White's in Oak Ridge.

$3 bucks would get you enough food for two days.

 

[Coug]

Scripps-Howard Cable before Comcast bought them out.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Scripps-Howard Cable before Comcast bought them out.

EW Scripps sold their cable division to focus on content by launching HGTV. It was called TeleScripps.

Before that it was Athena Cable TV. Athena built out the Knoxville system. 30 buttons for 30 channels on the cable box.

http://archive.knoxnews.com/entertainment/life/chrystal-talbott-a-look-at-communication-in-knoxville-ep-358038757-355697121.html

CATV (community antenna television), better known as cable TV, came slowly to Knoxville and Knox County. Athena Cablevision Corp. was awarded the contract to provide cable to Knoxville city residents in 1973, but it took until February 1975 for the first television to be hooked up with cable. By March of 1975 there were 13 channels available. Athena Cablevision Corp. finally fulfilled its obligation to "provide cable television to all areas in the city with a density of 50 homes per mile" in late 1979.

 

[pismonque]

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Athena Cablevision Corp. finally fulfilled its obligation to "provide cable television to all areas in the city with a density of 50 homes per mile" in late 1979.

But they say they were on time. When they set up the appointment on the phone, they said they'd be there sometime between 1973 and 1980 (someone needs to be home at the time).

 

[Boca Vol]

I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere in the other 338 posts but how many of you remember Service Merchandise?

 

[InVOLuntary]

I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere in the other 338 posts but how many of you remember Service Merchandise?

I loved Service Merchandise. You would purchase your items and they would roll out on a conveyor belt.

 

[MAD]

I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere in the other 338 posts but how many of you remember Service Merchandise?

Loved that place

 

[WallyBalls]

I remember getting the Service Merchandise and Sears or Penny's Christmas Catalogs as a kid and circling stuff like a mad man.

 

[Plano Vol]

Yosemite Sam's was the requisite Friday afternoon de-stresser. Few beers and a few games of pool, then back up to the PC to lay down a good base before heading out to Uncle Sam's to see what the night held in store.

 

[Nerd-Vol]

I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere in the other 338 posts but how many of you remember Service Merchandise?

Brings back memories.

 

[Nerd-Vol]

We had a Kenny Roger's roasters. I liked that place.

 

[Coug]

I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere in the other 338 posts but how many of you remember Service Merchandise?

Yep, I remember my parents going shopping at SM and as young male kid conveyor belts are fun. Pretty interesting since that's basically what Amazon's concept is now.

I remember getting the Service Merchandise and Sears or Penny's Christmas Catalogs as a kid and circling stuff like a mad man.

You and me both! Haha

 

[MAD]

I remember getting the Service Merchandise and Sears or Penny's Christmas Catalogs as a kid and circling stuff like a mad man.

Spent hours doing that, was more fun than actually getting the stuff.

 

[pismonque]

I remember getting the Service Merchandise and Sears or Penny's Christmas Catalogs as a kid and circling stuff like a mad man.

I don't remember if it was a Christmas catalog but any of you oldsters remember the big to-do about the man on page 602 of the Sears catalog one year in the 70s? Underwear model was apparently hanging out the bottom of his boxers, funny as hell. I remember the page number because there was a song about it on the radio. I looked it up in the catalog we had at the house and sure enough, there it was. I remember my friends and me getting a good laugh about that.

 

[MAD]

I don't remember where it was but there was a store on Kingston Pike that you trade your green stamps or yellow stamps for merchandise.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I don't remember where it was but there was a store on Kingston Pike that you trade your green stamps or yellow stamps for merchandise.

There were several. One was in the corner space in Bearden Center (green). Another (yellow) was in a stand alone building on the other side of Bearden Hill in the area where Chik-Fil-A and Office Depot/Service Merchandise are located.

 

[governmentmule]

don't know about Knoxville,but I miss the Drive in Beer stores up in the Tri cities area