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Lest We Forget: Nashville's Lost Businesses and Their Stories

Ridley Wills II

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Description:From Cornelia Fort Airpark to Tennessee Central Railroad to Marathon Motor Works, author Ridley Wills leads readers through Nashville's history, sharing stories and photographs of more than 220 past businesses and their owners and managers.Nashville residents and visitors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries found what they needed or wanted just down the way. Hungry? Join family for fried chicken at B&W Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue North. Bored? Take in Tennessee's first sound movie at the Knickerbocker Theater on Capitol Boulevard. Tired? Ride a streetcar to the Duncan Hotel on the southwest corner of North Cherry and Cedar Streets.And no aspiring city would be complete without its banks, department stores, hospitals, and manufacturers, including several owned and operated by minorities, women, and immigrants. Wills highlights businesses such as Freedmen's Savings Bank and Trust Company, for which Nelson G. Merry, Nashville's first ordained black minister, was a director. Harvey's Department Store had the first escalator in Tennessee and, believe it or not, a cage of monkeys near its snack bar. Two Presbyterian churches and the Masonic Hall housed US Army Hospital No. 8, Nashville's largest military hospital during the Civil War. May Hosiery Mills, founded in 1896 by a German native, first used prisoners to manufacture socks.With Lest We Forget: Nashville's Lost Businesses and Their Stories, Ridley Wills "has brought another gift to Nashville," according to Jack May, former CEO of May Hosiery Mills. "It is indisputable to an understanding of how Nashville came to be and continues to become…. Without these memories it is not possible to appreciate today."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lest We Forget: Nashville's Lost Businesses and Their Stories. To get started finding Lest We Forget: Nashville's Lost Businesses and Their Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 304

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Plumbline Media

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1937824128

Description: From Cornelia Fort Airpark to Tennessee Central Railroad to Marathon Motor Works, author Ridley Wills leads readers through Nashville's history, sharing stories and photographs of more than 220 past businesses and their owners and managers.Nashville residents and visitors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries found what they needed or wanted just down the way. Hungry? Join family for fried chicken at B&W Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue North. Bored? Take in Tennessee's first sound movie at the Knickerbocker Theater on Capitol Boulevard. Tired? Ride a streetcar to the Duncan Hotel on the southwest corner of North Cherry and Cedar Streets.And no aspiring city would be complete without its banks, department stores, hospitals, and manufacturers, including several owned and operated by minorities, women, and immigrants. Wills highlights businesses such as Freedmen's Savings Bank and Trust Company, for which Nelson G. Merry, Nashville's first ordained black minister, was a director. Harvey's Department Store had the first escalator in Tennessee and, believe it or not, a cage of monkeys near its snack bar. Two Presbyterian churches and the Masonic Hall housed US Army Hospital No. 8, Nashville's largest military hospital during the Civil War. May Hosiery Mills, founded in 1896 by a German native, first used prisoners to manufacture socks.With Lest We Forget: Nashville's Lost Businesses and Their Stories, Ridley Wills "has brought another gift to Nashville," according to Jack May, former CEO of May Hosiery Mills. "It is indisputable to an understanding of how Nashville came to be and continues to become…. Without these memories it is not possible to appreciate today."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lest We Forget: Nashville's Lost Businesses and Their Stories. To get started finding Lest We Forget: Nashville's Lost Businesses and Their Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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