Y’all Means All – The Gay Scene Knoxville

Contents:

• GAY STREET
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• 505 S GAY ST
• KNOXVILLE OFFICE SPACE: 800 S. GAY STREET, SUE 700
• 300 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
• 500 GAY RD, SMHVILLE, TN 37166
• 500 GAY RD,SMHVILLE, TN 37166
• 500 GAY ST,PHOENIXVILLE, PA 19460
• Y’ALL MEANS ALL – THE GAY SCENE KNOXVILLE
• 300 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

GAY STREET

As we ntue our tour south down Gay Street, we walk past the 400 block whout stoppg. Gay Tower, Embassy Su, what have you... Gay sce at least the 1880's.

This block, like many on the wt si of Gay, was home to many smaller shops.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

The tersectn of Clch and Gay, 1877. East Tennsee Natnal Bank, Corner of Unn and Gay 1925.

Gay and 511.

Woolworth's on Gay Street had closed s doors by 1970. It's gray, but there is the old Park Bank buildg at Gay and Unn wh the southern half of the new buildg beg nstcted.

505 S GAY ST

Gay St.

Gay was the McCormick Clothg Co. Gay Street, clock base at right. The inic Hope Brothers Clock stood on Gay Street for over 100 years until Kimball's reloted wh their bs to Bearn hill 2004.

KNOXVILLE OFFICE SPACE: 800 S. GAY STREET, SUE 700

Gay Street.

Gay Street was also a three story, brick buildg of Victorian vernacular.

300 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

Gay Street the 1920's. Gay would be bed wh 529 to form the Lane Dg Company. Gay Street, Holston at left, 523 S.

Gay Enomy Dgs at right.

Gay Street, the southernmost bay the buildg. Gay (Baker's Sho) has received an art makeover.

500 GAY RD, SMHVILLE, TN 37166

The much touted "Gay Way" project has happened brgg vered shoppg to downtown. Next time we're gog to jump across the street to h one ltle gap and then we will move on down to the 700 block as we ntue to fill the Gaps of Gay Street.

Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment. Gay Street is home to art galleri, historic theaters, the East Tennsee History Center and more – wh many buildgs listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac.

500 GAY RD,SMHVILLE, TN 37166

Gay Street was the se of the 1796 Constutnal Conventn that rulted the foundg of the state of Tennsee, and was a fol pot for the early polil activy of both the cy and the state of Tennsee. On the eve of the Civil War, Gay Street was the se of simultaneo Unn and Conferate recg ralli. Durg the Civil War, Gay Street saw some early vlence, a fatal shootg of a Unnist monstrator, days after the firg on Ft.

William Sanrs died as the rult of wounds the Lamar Hoe on Gay. After the war, Gay Street saw extensive mercial velopment as railroad nstctn brought an dtrial boom to Knoxville. By 1850, Gay Street was home to three-fourths of Knoxville's mercial activy.

In 1854, Gay Street beme Knoxville's first paved road.

500 GAY ST,PHOENIXVILLE, PA 19460

Almost all public visors to Knoxville ma an appearance on Gay Street. Durg the Civil War, Andrew Johnson was shot at when he gave a pro-Unn speech on Gay Street. Others who were seen on Gay Street at one time or another were prohibnist Carrie Natn, Socialist ndidate Eugene V.

One of Knoxville’s olst buildgs, the Lamar Hoe, now the ont portn of the Bijou Theatre, was operatg as a hotel facg Gay Street by 1817, when hosted a receptn for Gen.

Y’ALL MEANS ALL – THE GAY SCENE KNOXVILLE

Begng 1908, Gay Street beme the lotn of Knoxville’s first skyscrapers, steel-ame buildgs of 10 stor or more, begng wh the Burwell Buildg, followed by the taller Holston Buildg, and some years later the Andrew Johnson Hotel, which was for almost half a century the tallt buildg East Tennsee.

300 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

From 1960 to 1963, Gay Street was the se of dozens of civil-rights monstratns, first s-s at all-whe lunch unters, then monstratns outsi the still-segregated movie theaters. Gay Street has also been the home of multiple partment stor, cludg Miller’s, which mataed a prence s origal bex-arts brick buildg on Gay for 70 years. It was home to the headquarters of furnure giant Sterchi Brothers, whose logo has bee a signature of the Gay Street skyle, and today is one of downtown’s largt and most popular rintial buildgs.

Gay Street has always been home to Knoxville’s ft theatr. In 1872, Swiss immigrant Peter Stb pleted his grand Stb’s Opera Hoe, facg Gay Street.

It was the first of several theaters that kept Gay Street l up at night. Those who have performed shows Gay Street theaters between 1880 and 1940 clu Sarah Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, Will Rogers, Gee M.