Gay Street - Knoxville History Project

Contents:

• NO MONKEYG AROUND – THIS 'FROTHY' RTRANT IS OPEN ON GAY STREET WH FFEE AND BOOZE
• STAT DOUGH DOUGHNUTS AND COFFEE SHOP OPENS ON GAY STREET
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• A MAJOR DOWNTOWN RTRANT CLOS ON GAY STREET
• GAY STREET
• MONEY, COFFEE AND ART: CHANG ON GAY STREET
• 418 SOUTH GAY STREET
• A QUIRKY GAY STREET FIXTURE FOR WTERN GEAR, VTAGE VIB IS LEAVG DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE
• A QUIRKY GAY STREET FIXTURE FOR WTERN GEAR, VTAGE VIB IS LEAVG DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE

NO MONKEYG AROUND – THIS 'FROTHY' RTRANT IS OPEN ON GAY STREET WH FFEE AND BOOZE

K Brew’s third ffee shop is the heart of Downtown Knoxville, on the rner of Gay St. Grab some lunch at Cafe 4 or Tomato Head, and then walk down Gay Street, one of Knoxville’s olst roads, led by historil buildgs wh stunng archecture.

STAT DOUGH DOUGHNUTS AND COFFEE SHOP OPENS ON GAY STREET

Frothy Monkey’s lotn Downtown Knoxville is the perfect stop for ffee, tea, cktails or a meal while enjoyg all that Gay Street has to offer. Frothy Monkey Gut Parkg: Limed Downtown “Stop N’ Go” parkg spac are available on Gay Street as well as metered spac. You may Park the KAX Free parkg area Old Cy and take the Green Route to Downtown and Gay Street.

Gay St., is as "othy" as gets, wh a newly renovated space plete wh an add door mezzane and a 40-seat street-si pat for ctomers to enjoy ffee, cktails and a full day's worth of food om the Nashville-based bs. :Get the ee weekly Urban Knoxville newsletterDowntown mailbag:Massive riversi project nixed; Gay Street buildg gets new lifeA taste of Frothy Monkey's menu Don't expect a standard ffee shop menu wh drip drks and pastri.

" New Knoxville rtrants:Our gui helps you pick somethg fancy, h or fieryShaq attack:Shaquille O'Neal's Big Chicken rtrant g to KnoxvilleGrowg Knoxville's cultural hubThe experience starts before walkg the doors, as a partially vered pat ontg Gay Street acmodat one-quarter of Frothy Monkey's roughly 160 seats. Near the bar area, a large wdow provis a view of the graffied Strong Alley between Gay Street and Market Square.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

More:We taste tted Fat Tuday daiquiris, now open on Gay StreetFrothy Monkey's downtown Nashville lotn cintally is loted wh a Krs buildg, as well. Market Square Gay Street Old Cy Volunteer Landg World's Fair Park. Stat Dough, 418 South Gay Street, Knoxville, Febary 2019.

When I wrote the origal article, Jimmy Wooten said he hoped to open the downtown store at 418 South Gay Street January. Gay Street, Five Bar Foreground, Knoxville, December 2015.

It’s been sometime sce a major bs on Gay Street closed s doors.

A MAJOR DOWNTOWN RTRANT CLOS ON GAY STREET

Five Bar Rtrant, 430 South Gay Street, Knoxville, September 2014. Gay Street, cir 1890s. Regnized by the Amerin Planng Associatn as one of the natn’s “Great Streets, ” Gay Street was regard before the Civil War as Knoxville’s ma mercial street.

Durg the 1920s Gay Street served as a meetg pot for a new group of Knoxvillians head to both disver a new wilrns and blaze trails for a new Natnal Park, the Great Smoky Mountas. David Chapman, also owned a pharmacy bs on Gay Street, famo for s Whe Ln statue. Almost everythg that has ever happened downtown Knoxville has a lk some way to Gay Street.

GAY STREET VINTAGE POSTCARD GALLERY. For a look to the 100 Block of South Gay Street by the railroad on the north end of Gay Street, jo for a Knoxville Weekend vio featurg KHP’s Jack Neely and Knoxville Urban Guy, Alan Sims, for an affectnate look back at an old classic – Harold’s Deli. In 1919, the cy raised this sectn of Gay Street to take out what was known as the “Death Dip, ” sentially a steep valley down towards and back up across the railroad tracks.

GAY STREET

Raisg the 100 Block of Gay Street 1919. ROSS MOL’S GAY STREET VIADUCT GALLERY.

MONEY, COFFEE AND ART: CHANG ON GAY STREET

Gay Street to look to , but I fally ma out last night and, sure enough, an ATM ss where once sat what I’ll refer to as “Art Dog.

I assume this one had been on Gay Street for ten years.

418 SOUTH GAY STREET

There are plenty of ATMs around downtown and I’m not sure a ee-standg ATM mache should be allowed on Gay Street. As a bon, I fally got to meet the artist of Gay Street (I jt ma that up), Mark Burns. So, beyond the qutn of whether a ee-standg ATM should be allowed on Gay Street, beyond the qutn of how important is the loss of the dog, new qutns arise: Did we really need another bank downtown?

418 South Gay Street.

A QUIRKY GAY STREET FIXTURE FOR WTERN GEAR, VTAGE VIB IS LEAVG DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE

Stat Dough Doughnuts and Coffee Shop Opens on Gay Street. Knoxville Urban Guy·Febary 6, 2019When I wrote the origal article, Jimmy Wooten said he hoped to open the downtown store at 418 South Gay Street January. Knoxville Urban Guy·December 19, 2018A homegrown Knoxville bs is openg s send lotn the cy at 418 South Gay Street, former home of Downtown Grd.

A QUIRKY GAY STREET FIXTURE FOR WTERN GEAR, VTAGE VIB IS LEAVG DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE

133 S Gay St un c,. Gay Street (jt look for the cute yellow umbrellas outsi), so even if you were to ONLY stay on this street you’d pass que a b as ’s one of the ma downtown thoroughfar. Start wh a ffee, then head south (cross over the railroad tracks) and h the “100 Block” of Gay Street.