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

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#151
There was a bar for a brief time in the now closed Sidesitters Club. It was Tex-Mex place. Forget the name. Drank a lot of 2 buck import drafts there when I wasn't drinking at Prince's.

Cozumel was an awesome spot.

Mouse's Ear South.
 
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VolStrom said:
Maybe I missed it but I don't think anyone mentioned Uncle Sams on Alcoa Highway.

I wasn't exactly a fan, but it was a great place to pick up girls for awhile. My last experience there was being "escorted" through the front door head first.
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Got lucky there a few times, :)
 
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davethevol said:
Losing the Disc Exchange really hurts. I found so many awesome CD's there when I was in college. I loved that place.
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My favorite DE story:

Was rifling through the staff picks one day and came across an interesting album cover, popped it in the player, put on the headphones, and was blown away. Nobody I knew had heard of them at that time. It became an instant hit with friends and we saw the band twice at the old Electric Ballroom. Before long, they were all over MTV.

The Album: 311 - Grassroots.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
My favorite DE story:

Was rifling through the staff picks one day and came across an interesting album cover, popped it in the player, put on the headphones, and was blown away. Nobody I knew had heard of them at that time. It became an instant hit with friends and we saw the band twice at the old Electric Ballroom. Before long, they were all over MTV.

The Album: 311 - Grassroots.
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Hot Summer Nights at Worlds Fair Park was my first 311 show. No clue the year.

I'll add Moose's to the list of music places I miss.
 
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Rouxbarb - Chicken livers and BYOB w/ no cork fee (most of the time)

Tom and Barry's - Pizza joint on Rocky Hill (where Peros is now) easily in the top 3 best pizzas I've ever eaten. The "Southsider" with Chicago fennel sausage was otherworldly, and I feel sorry for anyone that never got the chance to try their pies. I haven't been able to set foot in that building since. *sheds single tear*
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Some of the best meals I've had in K-town were prepared by Chef Bruce at RouXbarb. Loved that place.
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I was friends with Bruce growing up, and I remember he knew he wanted to be a Chef even when we were just kids.
 
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WallyBalls said:
I had forgot about the billiards place in Downtown West. We loved it because the guy let us smoke black and gold's in there.

Which reminds me...Swensen's and their model train!
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Swensen's, was one of my favorite places. It was packed and you had to wait to get a table. They had a great patty melt and loved the Swiss orange chip ice cream.
 
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My dad bought a new 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass at Rice Olds on Cumberland Ave. it was where McDonald's on the strip is now. Can you imagine a new car dealership there?
 
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doozer said:
Monterey is where the old Pizza Kitchen used to be, another gone but forgotten place. That's Northshore and Pellissippi area, behind Crown Cleaners if you're not sure of the area. Anaba sushi is good too.

Prince's was primarily at Lovell. Cedar Bluff was a second location for a while, but Lovell was the first. They both used to have $2 import bottles and fried clam strips a couple week nights. Lived off that for a while.
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Interesting, I did not know that about Prince's, thanks.

RockyTopJA said:
Rouxbarb - Chicken livers and BYOB w/ no cork fee (most of the time)

Tom and Barry's - Pizza joint on Rocky Hill (where Peros is now) easily in the top 3 best pizzas I've ever eaten. The "Southsider" with Chicago fennel sausage was otherworldly, and I feel sorry for anyone that never got the chance to try their pies. I haven't been able to set foot in that building since. *sheds single tear*
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kiddiedoc said:
Some of the best meals I've had in K-town were prepared by Chef Bruce at RouXbarb. Loved that place.
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mad4vols said:
I was friends with Bruce growing up, and I remember he knew he wanted to be a Chef even when we were just kids.
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Just FYI, if you guys are fans of Rouxbarb/Chef Bruce Bogartz he has a new restaurant in the Sunsphere called Primo.
 
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Coug said:
Interesting, I did not know that about Prince's, thanks.







Just FYI, if you guys are fans of Rouxbarb/Chef Bruce Bogartz he has a new restaurant in the Sunsphere called Primo.
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My aunt told me about it and I read it got some great reviews. I can't wait to ck it out when I come visit Knoxville.
 
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Tin Man said:
How old are you? Do you remember Jacaranda? Suite for Three Kings and a Queen?

I knew the Corts brothers, Tim & Ed.
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I don't remember them. I went to that place from the late 70s to early-mid 80s. Mostly to see bands I knew.

I remember seeing Candy Creme there. Did the lights for a Smokin' Dave and the Premo Dopes show.
 
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How about Gabby's on the strip - was a "fern" bar when it opened but that didn't last given the clientele was a bunch of drunk college peeps.

Any mention of Hawkeye's? Animal Hour was the best. 3 for 1 = a water glass full of liquor.

There was a bar in the hotel up the hill on 17th street that had 2 dollar pitchers (coupon in the Beacon - my wallet was full of those coupons).

There was a gas station/convenient store on Northshore about 2 blocks from Kingston Pike heading towards the lake. It would be on the right heading that direction. They had draft beer that you could buy by the gallon. Had milk jugs and some taps. We used to get a gallon or 2 and head to the Boulevard in Sequoia Hills to play frisbee and smoke weed.
 
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Tin Man said:
I see that the Longbranch Saloon is still open, though it's across the street from where it used to be in the mid to late '70s. Once, a friend of mine wanted to perform on open mic night - part audition, part day-of-the-week filler, part contest. He new two Pure Prairie League songs on the guitar which he would sing back-to-back as a medley of sorts - Falling In and Out of Love + Amie. He was too nervous to get up on stage solo, so he asked me to join him to sing harmony in places and double up lines in the chorus. We won a case of beer, which he was kind enough to bring to my place and share with my housemates.
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Cheyenne band

used to do Falling In and Out of Love + Amie at the Longbranch. IMHO they were the best southern rock band in Knoxville in late 70's very early 80's. They toured the eastern seaboard from Rhode Island to Key West for a while after. Some of them were in Tarlog and others. Still get together under Wes-Bryan Reunion once in a while.

What was the bar across from Mad Dog Saloon where Forest runs into Western?
 
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The Leather Carrot was a hippy leather store on the strip near The Cumberland Gap where I might've walked out with something other than purchases. But I was in there all the time. I wanted this one dude to teach me a little leather work so I could make a belt and matching watchband, but that didn't happen.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Except I can't remember the Orange Julius. I'd always go to the Orange Bowl. Was the arcade where the food court is now?

There was a clothing store just down from the Orange Bowl towards Proffit's... can't remember what it was called. On the corner near an entrance. Then there was another near the current food court... Frankenberger's I think. And another across from Frankenberger's that I can't recall the name.
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I found an old West Town map from 1972 and put on there where I thought Orange Julius and the Orange Bowl were located.

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