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

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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Sam and Andy's was across the street from the Pickle-U-Pub building. I think that the club on Alcoa Highway (on the left heading to the airport) had Sam's in the name. Had a dance floor with lights in it. Uncle Sam's, Yosemite Sam's? I forget... probably Unvke Ssm's. It was the Senator's Club before that and has been a health club/fitness center since. I think that the Senator's Club might have been a private club work around before liquor by the drink was allowed in Knoxville at bars and restaurants in the 1960s.
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Yes I used to go to Sam and Andy's also and get their roast beef on dark bread, many life times ago.....lol
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Hazel. Legendary Knoxvillian.

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doesnt look like her
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Vjcvette said:
Wow, interesting story there..........
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My mother was a big fan of Liz Taylor, and I was living near Radford when Liz came to town on a campaign stop for her husband John Warner, who was running for Senate. I went to a meet and greet in downtown Radford in some smallish store front (probably Republican campaign headquarters in Radford). Warner won that election by about 5,000 votes out of over 1 million cast. I would say that Liz helped him win. There were a lot of people in attendance. My main memory is that she had captivating eyes, and I was within a couple of feet from her.
 
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And did anyone ever go to the Foxy Lady out on Merchants Dr, or Smugglers Inn on the corner of Paper Mill and Weisgarber, it later turned into Desperado's which was after I
had already moved from Knoxville.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I googled her and found an excellent 2008 story about the Busch killing in the Sentinel. The weird aspect of the story to me was that it was written by a man (Jim Balloch) who lived next door to me in Reese Hall (4th floor West Wing).
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remember rreading several articles by jim b.
dont know him but i seem to recall he was a good reporter
 
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ArdentVol said:
remember rreading several articles by jim b.
dont know him but i seem to recall he was a good reporter
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He was an unusual dude when he lived next to me in Reese. He loved to go to the dump at night and shoot rats by spotlight. I have never seen anybody get that excited over rat shooting. We called him Ballzack, instead of Balloch.
 
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ArdentVol said:
remember rreading several articles by jim b.
dont know him but i seem to recall he was a good reporter
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I remembered another thing about Balloch. He was absolutely enthralled with the new graphic, violent Sam Peckinpah bloody western. He couldn't stop talking about The Wild Bunch. I think it was about the first movie that depicted blood spilling in such a manner.
 
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Vjcvette said:
Around 78 there was a huge pep rally on the strip, people had filled the streets, there were no cars at all on the strip and they brought out the "Big" policemen to clear the streets and they just backed a patty wagon up
to the door of the last lap and put people in it. I will never forget that, a friend and I just sat on the porch of one of the houses and watched all of it. People had gotten up on the roofs of the buildings across the street
from Alice's restaurant and were laughing watching all of the people in the street getting arrested, and then all of the sudden you saw all of them start running because the police went up on the roof after all of those
people. I can't remember if Tennessee was playing Florida or Alabama.
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It wouldn't have been Florida in 78, more than likely for streakers
 
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Wireless1 said:
It wouldn't have been Florida in 78, more than likely for streakers
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It was in 1978 the night before the Alabama game. 100% certain. The strip streaking was 4-5 years prior. 1978 was way out of control and ended with the police riot squad practically invoking martial law. BTW, TN lost to Bama for the 8th time in a row the next day.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
It was in 1978 the night before the Alabama game. 100% certain. The strip streaking was 4-5 years prior. 1978 was way out of control and ended with the police riot squad practically invoking martial law. BTW, TN lost to Bama for the 8th time in a row the next day.
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Streaking was absolutely during 1973 or 74. I remember hearing about it happening at U.T. when my first wife and I were in New Haven Connecticut and she was getting her Master's at Yale. We were in CT from Fall 1972 through June of 74. They were streaking up there during that time, too.
 
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1972 Grad said:
Streaking was absolutely during 1973 or 74. I remember hearing about it happening at U.T. when my first wife and I were in New Haven Connecticut and she was getting her Master's at Yale. We were in CT from Fall 1972 through June of 74. They were streaking up there during that time, too.
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Makes sense. Ray Stevens released The Streak in ‘74.
 
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