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

[EricStratton]

They probably own a long term lease. A bank owns ALL of the acres of commercial property in that area.

They own that parcel. The REITs do own some of the surrounding parcels.

 

[StarRaider]

Dang our family ate there last fall a couple of days before my niece's wedding.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

They own that parcel. The REITs do own some of the surrounding parcels.

No. The bank owns all of it. Including 8926. Doesn’t mean that First American hasn’t given them a decades long lease.

 

[Go aeiou]

Knoxville has turned into a completely different place in about 10 years or so. Liberal attitudes are more pervasive, infrastructure is worse than it was during the malfunction junction days. Too many "ain't from around here" folks moving in. It's not that it's not the same, it's completely different.

I live in Nashville. It's growing and people from everywhere. They are often an improvement when compared to the natives.

 

[82_VOL_83]

I live in Nashville. It's growing and people from everywhere. They are often an improvement when compared to the natives.

Is it home to you?Are you from there originally?

 

[Ted]

We talked about the Misaki restaurant building earlier. Here's another one. What was in the building at 8217 Kingston Pike before Makino's Japanese Buffet?

I went recently to Makino's for lunch. I had not been there since before the pandemic. Wow, has it changed! Even though it's still called a buffet, it is not that at all anymore.

 

[Go aeiou]

Is it home to you?Are you from there originally?

Originally from Oak Ridge. been here since 2010. These days people go where the jobs are.
Nashville /Murfreesboro/Franklin/Gallatin have become one large city.

Maybe being from OR is the reason I like Nashville. No one in OR had parents or grand parents from there when I was born(52). Everyone was from somewhere else.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Originally from Oak Ridge. been here since 2010. These days people go where the jobs are.
Nashville /Murfreesboro/Franklin/Gallatin have become one large city.

Maybe being from OR is the reason I like Nashville. No one in OR had parents or grand parents from there when I was born(52). Everyone was from somewhere else.

Can understand. I was born in Knoxville and was raised from 2nd thru 12th in N AL. Moved to Gallatin and quickly learned to despise the place. Always liked Hendersonville better. Went to school at UT. Moved to S. FL for 16 then came back. Liked where we lived but it had started getting crowded when we left in 13. I've been back a couple of times. Political climate has changed and the demographic is beginning to change due to those policies per my wife and extended family that are still there. Its not the somewhere else that gets me its the different country entirely part.

 

[Go aeiou]

Can understand. I was born in Knoxville and was raised from 2nd thru 12th in N AL. Moved to Gallatin and quickly learned to despise the place. Always liked Hendersonville better. Went to school at UT. Moved to S. FL for 16 then came back. Liked where we lived but it had started getting crowded when we left in 13. I've been back a couple of times. Political climate has changed and the demographic is beginning to change due to those policies per my wife and extended family that are still there. Its not the somewhere else that gets me its the different country entirely part.

Hendersonville is probably the best place to live in the Nashville area, IMO. Our daughter and her family live in Brentwood. She and many others describe Brentwood/Franklin/Williamson Co as uppity.
My neighbors on each side and 3 across the street are from Lexington. KY, Philly, Nashville, Ohio, Denver.

The reason I hear for moving here is a warmer climate, and to get away from high state taxes. That is retirees. A job/transfer for working folks.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Hendersonville is probably the best place to live in the Nashville area, IMO. Our daughter and her family live in Brentwood. She and many others describe Brentwood/Franklin/Williamson Co as uppity.
My neighbors on each side and 3 across the street are from Lexington. KY, Philly, Nashville, Ohio, Denver.

The reason I hear for moving here is a warmer climate, and to get away from high state taxes. That is retirees. A job/transfer for working folks.

My son recently sold a nice very small house off Douglas and 2nd for $430k. In most places the house would bring about $50k at best. BIL lives out in the Mt. Juliet area. It's OK but I have my slice of heaven up here in Hoptown.

 

[SobeVol]

That sounds familar. Where was that?



Had a great Galaga machine in the back.


Tap Room
OCI
Library

Tap room was stout! Most assuredly

 

[82_VOL_83]

Anyone remember Quarters?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Anyone remember Quarters?

Their Pac-Man machines ate a lot of them (quarters).

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Anyone remember Quarters?

Used to hang there all the time. The big joke was getting a pitcher of beer. When they ask how many cups I always said just one. The usual suspects I ran with did the same for a big laugh. Good times.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Used to hang there all the time. The big joke was getting a pitcher of beer. When they ask how many cups I always said just one. The usual suspects I ran with did the same for a big laugh. Good times.

We would order 2 beers and bring in a six pack. Just keep filling the cups and go get more when we ran out. Had to be careful.

 

[SuzyVol]

No. The bank owns all of it. Including 8926. Doesn’t mean that First American hasn’t given them a decades long lease.

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Lillie Cain shows up in the ownership history of that parcel. She owned much property in West Knox.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Lillie Cain shows up in the ownership history of that parcel. She owned much property in West Knox.

All over Kingston Pike. Much of it a couple miles to the east around Downtown West Blvd.

 

[2EastTnVols]

Used to hang there all the time. The big joke was getting a pitcher of beer. When they ask how many cups I always said just one. The usual suspects I ran with did the same for a big laugh. Good times.

I wasn't in a frat at UT but a lot of my buddies were. If memory serves Quarters was the sigma chi hangout, taproom was kappa sig, and oci was sae. Spent many a late night in those places. Another awesome place just up the hill from quarters was Hawkeyes.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I wasn't in a frat at UT but a lot of my buddies were. If memory serves Quarters was the sigma chi hangout, taproom was kappa sig, and oci was sae. Spent many a late night in those places. Another awesome place just up the hill from quarters was Hawkeyes.

And the broke plebeian fellers like me went for the $3 pitchers at The Last Lap, the Library, and the original Long Branch.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

I wasn't in a frat at UT but a lot of my buddies were. If memory serves Quarters was the sigma chi hangout, taproom was kappa sig, and oci was sae. Spent many a late night in those places. Another awesome place just up the hill from quarters was Hawkeyes.

My old buds and I were too poor to be in a frat. We weren't the fraternity kind, lol. Pitchers of beer and one plastic cup was $2.50 at quarters when I was there.

 

[UT_Dutchman]

And the broke plebeian fellers like me went for the $3 pitchers at The Last Lap, the Library, and the original Long Branch.

$2 shots of tequila and $2 bud longnecks on Tuesday and Thursday at the Lap was our go to.

 

[Ted]

Cumberland Ave. developer files for demolition permits for many buildings

From that article, here is a list of the properties to be demolished. I've annotated the list with most recent businesses. I don't know who were in some of these buildings in years past, but some of you will know. If you want to look closer, here's the map link, starting at 1901 Cumberland.

• 1901 Cumberland Avenue (CA): Hanna's Cafe
• 1907 CA: Was multiple tenants, including Jimmy John's, brick building
• 1911 CA: Was multiple tenants, white building
• 1915 CA: Same as 1911 CA
• 1919 CA: University Liquors and Fine Wines
• 1931 CA: Studio X nightclub
• 1937 CA: Stefano's Pizza / old Ruby Tuesday
• 2001 CA: Rocky Top Market / Shell gas station

It's everything on the north side of Cumberland between 19th and 20th Streets, and then over 20th Street to the next block, before you get to Starbucks. All of these buildings are now vacant after their 2022 purchases. It sounds like three of the new buildings will go in on the first block, and then one will go in on the Rocky Top Market site.

It's just a matter of time now until nothing is left of the Strip. I still can't believe this. On the other hand, I also saw an article that said that the Stefano's site sold for $3.25M last June. What can we say. Big developer bucks trumps history and nostalgia every time.

 

[2EastTnVols]

My old buds and I were too poor to be in a frat. We weren't the fraternity kind, lol. Pitchers of beer and one plastic cup was $2.50 at quarters when I was there.

Loved the days when we could go out and drink cheap, and then walk/stumble home to our dumpy apartment in the fort. Sucks for the kids now that have to drive or get a ride to market square, they don't get to experience the strip as it was in its heyday.

 

[WallyBalls]

We talked about the Misaki restaurant building earlier. Here's another one. What was in the building at 8217 Kingston Pike before Makino's Japanese Buffet?

I went recently to Makino's for lunch. I had not been there since before the pandemic. Wow, has it changed! Even though it's still called a buffet, it is not that at all anymore.

Wasn't Makino's a Logan's Roadhouse? I remember going there right out of high school because they'd let our dumba$$es smoke cigars in their smoking section.

I don't remember if Logans was the original tenant of the building or if there was something there before that.

And the shopping center where Chuck E Cheese and that awful dog store used to be the movies, right?

 

[Wireless1]

Cumberland Ave. developer files for demolition permits for many buildings

From that article, here is a list of the properties to be demolished. I've annotated the list with most recent businesses. I don't know who were in some of these buildings in years past, but some of you will know. If you want to look closer, here's the map link, starting at 1901 Cumberland.

• 1901 Cumberland Avenue (CA): Hanna's Cafe
• 1907 CA: Was multiple tenants, including Jimmy John's, brick building
• 1911 CA: Was multiple tenants, white building
• 1915 CA: Same as 1911 CA
• 1919 CA: University Liquors and Fine Wines
• 1931 CA: Studio X nightclub
• 1937 CA: Stefano's Pizza / old Ruby Tuesday
• 2001 CA: Rocky Top Market / Shell gas station

It's everything on the north side of Cumberland between 19th and 20th Streets, and then over 20th Street to the next block, before you get to Starbucks. All of these buildings are now vacant after their 2022 purchases. It sounds like three of the new buildings will go in on the first block, and then one will go in on the Rocky Top Market site.

It's just a matter of time now until nothing is left of the Strip. I still can't believe this. On the other hand, I also saw an article that said that the Stefano's building sold for $3.25M last June. What can we say. Big developer bucks trumps history and nostalgia every time.

I’m betting that the ground floor and maybe one up and down for that building will be restaurants, night clubs, package stores and other businesses catering to the university community just like the businesses they are replacing. The differences will really be the 6 to 12 stories above them that house students at $800-1500 per month at a pop.