The " Strip" is beyond awful

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SDV said:
RIP Lap/Library
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Posted before, so sorry for the repeat, but life in Hess Hall in the early-mid 1970’s:

Roommate’s parents call the room phone (no such thing as cell phones, or computers, or Internet), asking for the roommate.

“Sorry, she’s at the Library. Can I take a message?”

—and she was!
 
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Mose Phillip's Watch said:
Went there yesterday for dinner & was blown away how awful it is. How could the zoning people allow all those 6 story apartments to be built right on the edge of the road & more coming ? It has no character anymore, no locally owned restaurants or bars hardly left. Nothing about it is fun or charming anymore.
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It was tacky as hell, but it was fun. Definitely oriented toward fun for students, which is exactly what a place called “the strip” in a college town should be.

Not clogged with street people (I guess we were the street people), tons of places to eat and drink, bands - GOOD bands- in every other joint, a Walgreens for next-day repair; not loomed-over by investor-driven fancy-ass condos with granite countertops and separate bedrooms and kitchens/living rooms better than my first three apartments.

Oh, and you could park!

At no point should 18-year-olds be living fancier than their parents. That’s just wrong.
 
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A college town should be full of cheap places a young, energetic college kid can take advantage of. Knoxville has it's share of gentrification. I imagine, there are plenty of local hang outs for the younger crowd tho.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Its amazing what we can put our bodies through when we are under 30.
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The Strip used to be full of so many late-night gut-busters. Krystal, Hibachi Factory, Silver Cuisine (off the strip), the pizza/sandwich place next to Threads, Rocky Top Market gas station with the Cajun Rooster. I think they're all gone now. No wonder this generation is soft. Now get off my lawn!
 
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clarksvol00 said:
The Strip used to be full of so many late-night gut-busters. Krystal, Hibachi Factory, Silver Cuisine (off the strip), the pizza/sandwich place next to Threads, Rocky Top Market gas station with the Cajun Rooster. I think they're all gone now. No wonder this generation is soft. Now get off my lawn!
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DXH (dear ex-husband) was one of the UT pilots back in the day, and we would sometimes wind up at the Roman Room eating chili burgers with Pat, Micki, and Holly, all of whom were great human beings, no matter what might have happened in later years in coaching land. They were all without conceit and just happy to be having a good time. They loved to tell stories about one another.

Here’s one (non-Roman Room):

 
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Most of these arguments are nostalgia based. My favorite bar is gone, the strip sucks. Ignoring that there are still places for college kids to get drunk on the strip.

Also considering that it's all new, and Covid, many new bars probably havent had a chance to open up yet.
 
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Panthro said:
This thread inspired me to have breakfast on the strip today with an old college friend. We went to Panera, which actually looked the same. I parked in a 2 hour parking spot and was there for 45 minutes. Got a ticket.
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A couple of years ago I got a ticket for parking on the street in the same spot that I had been using for decades. Apparently they slapped up some Delivery Only signs about 8-10 feet above the spots. I haven’t spent a dime down there since. Haven’t paid the parking ticket either. I think that it had probably blown off of my windshield and I never knew it was there. I’m not paying ransom to those local socialists that are I trying to run Knoxville right now.
 
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LouderVol said:
Most of these arguments are nostalgia based. My favorite bar is gone, the strip sucks. Ignoring that there are still places for college kids to get drunk on the strip.

Also considering that it's all new, and Covid, many new bars probably havent had a chance to open up yet.
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There will always be some bars ( I guess), but the loss if the Krystal burger is criminal.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I'm old, but I never knew Krystals sold fried chicken. I can't even imagine how that could have been at 2:00 am on a weekend night. Krystals, fried chicken and drunk college kids... WOW.
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Found this

Krystal Fried Chicken

Soon after Kentucky Fried Chicken spread secret herbs and spices nationwide, Krystal ventured into fried chicken. This required adding space to the existing restaurants. If a family was divided between burgers and chicken, as mine was, it required splitting up and ordering from two separate counters.

The Krystal chicken venture was short-lived, and stores began expanding into the former chicken area to serve more burger customers.
 
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hog88 said:
Knoxville doesn’t want visitors or a winning football team that would draw them to the area.
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I lived on Gay street before they started much of the revitalization. I got a gazillion tickets. I got towed near the time I was about to move out. I was sick that I was going to have to pay a couple years of parking tickets off. Went down to the lot and they only made me play the impound fee to get my car out. Not the thousands of dollars in parking tickets 😅
 
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mad4vols said:
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lol add a few dozen beers and ham sammiches to that older cop and you've got Sheriff Buford T. Justice and Junior.
 
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I always wondered why the Strip didn't have a strip club? Some kind of ordinance?
 
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