Downtown Knoxville: Explore unrground Gay Street

Contents:

• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• GAY STREET
• DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR
• Y’ALL MEANS ALL – THE GAY SCENE KNOXVILLE
• THE SOUTH GAY STREET CONDOMIUMS
• STERCHI LOFTS, # L104, 116 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
• 300 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
• GAY KNOXVILLE TRAVEL GUI
• 128 S GAY ST,KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
• GAY NIGHTLIFE KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• CLANCY'S TAVERN& WHISKEY HOUSEDISVEROUR STORYCLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE’S PREMIER IRISH PUB. LOTED DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR TO THE HISTORIC TENNSEE THEATRE, AT THE RNER OF GAY STREET AND CLCH AVENUE.ABOUT USDAILY SPECIALSMONDAYTEAM TRIVIA NIGHTSTARTS AT 7PM 1ST PLACE: $50 GIFT CARD2ND PLACE: $25 GIFT CARD3RD PLACE: $10 GIFT CARD TUESDAYBREWSDAY TUESDAY7PM – CLOSE $3 MICRO & DOMTIC DRAFTS $4 IMPORTS & HIGH GRAVY BOGO LIQUID GOLD BEER CHEE WEDNESDAYWINE WEDNESDAY4PM – 10PMHALF PRICE BOTTL OF WETHURSDAYHAPPY HOUR3PM – 7PMWHERE ELSE WOULD YOU RATHER BE?SATURDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASSUNDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASJO THE EXPERIENCEWE OFFER A RELAXED AND TIMATE EXPERIENCE THAT SETS APART OM THE RT. LOTED ON THE SAFE, CLEAN AND BTLG GAY STREET OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, CLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS A UNIQUE SETTG AND THE PERFECT PLACE TO SPEND THE EVENG.VIEW THE EVENTS CALENDAR#GALLERY-0{MARG:TO}#GALLERY-0 .GALLERY-EM{FLOAT:LEFT;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;WIDTH:50%}KNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBCOME VIS US
• 116 S GAY ST #M106, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
• 116 S GAY ST,KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

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. 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.

GAY STREET

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.

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.

DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR

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. 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. 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.

Y’ALL MEANS ALL – THE GAY SCENE KNOXVILLE

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.

THE SOUTH GAY STREET CONDOMIUMS

Those who have performed shows Gay Street theaters between 1880 and 1940 clu Sarah Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, Will Rogers, Gee M.

STERCHI LOFTS, # L104, 116 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

By the 1920s, Gay Street supported several movie theaters at once, the largt of which were the Riviera (1920) and the more extravagantly rated Tennsee (1928). Today, as day turns to night, theatre lights still lure you down Gay Street for a variety of performanc and cematic entertament at some of the regn’s most popular venu. Knoxville Arts District - 100 Block Gay Street.

300 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

Gay Street also wnsed the early days of live-dience rad, as untry stars like Roy Acuff, Chet Atks, the Everly Brothers, and Dolly Parton got their starts on rad statns WNOX and WROL. Live mic n still be found on Gay Street today at the WDVX studs loted si the Knoxville Visors Center. Si note: Televisn was troduced to the regn wh a broadst 1953 om WROL studs the Mechanics Bank buildg on Gay.

GAY KNOXVILLE TRAVEL GUI

Gay Street and events that took place on have been mentned the works of novelists Jam Agee and Cormac McCarthy, humorists Mark Twa and Gee Washgton Harris, and poet and sayist Nikki Gvanni. Gay Street was a settg for paras by the 1850s, and was the scene of many dramatic events, cludg several gunfights, most notably the Mabry-O’Conner gunfight of 1882, which all three batants were killed. Gay Street was the settg of one of the South’s first Deratn Day (later Memorial Day) paras, and by the 1870s, of more joyo St.

128 S GAY ST,KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

Bee of s prervatn and ntributns to Knoxville's enomic base and vibrant arts scene, the Amerin Planng Associatn signated Gay Street as one of 10 Great Streets unr the anizatn's Great Plac Ameri program. Several downtown streets have been renamed over the years, but Gay Street retas s origal name, perhaps bee, om the very begng, the street has been known as the place where Knoxvillians e for fun and entertament. 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.

GAY NIGHTLIFE KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

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.

CLANCY'S TAVERN& WHISKEY HOUSEDISVEROUR STORYCLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE’S PREMIER IRISH PUB. LOTED DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR TO THE HISTORIC TENNSEE THEATRE, AT THE RNER OF GAY STREET AND CLCH AVENUE.ABOUT USDAILY SPECIALSMONDAYTEAM TRIVIA NIGHTSTARTS AT 7PM 1ST PLACE: $50 GIFT CARD2ND PLACE: $25 GIFT CARD3RD PLACE: $10 GIFT CARD TUESDAYBREWSDAY TUESDAY7PM – CLOSE $3 MICRO & DOMTIC DRAFTS $4 IMPORTS & HIGH GRAVY BOGO LIQUID GOLD BEER CHEE WEDNESDAYWINE WEDNESDAY4PM – 10PMHALF PRICE BOTTL OF WETHURSDAYHAPPY HOUR3PM – 7PMWHERE ELSE WOULD YOU RATHER BE?SATURDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASSUNDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASJO THE EXPERIENCEWE OFFER A RELAXED AND TIMATE EXPERIENCE THAT SETS APART OM THE RT. LOTED ON THE SAFE, CLEAN AND BTLG GAY STREET OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, CLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS A UNIQUE SETTG AND THE PERFECT PLACE TO SPEND THE EVENG.VIEW THE EVENTS CALENDAR#GALLERY-0{MARG:TO}#GALLERY-0 .GALLERY-EM{FLOAT:LEFT;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;WIDTH:50%}KNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBCOME VIS US

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.

Raisg the 100 Block of Gay Street 1919. ROSS MOL’S GAY STREET VIADUCT GALLERY. The 100 block of Gay Street was raised one story 1919 to the level is today.

116 S GAY ST #M106, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

Storeonts are still visible the unrground tate velopers see an opportuny to re-purpose unrground the 100 block of the Gay Street we know today is the 100 block of yterday or, rather, ytercentury.

Fixg 'the Death Dip' The 100 block of Gay Street was raised to rolve what lol historian Jack Neely referred to as "the Death Dip. "As Gay Street grew and the railroad got by, acmodatg dozens of tras every day, the cy built bridg over the rail yards.

116 S GAY ST,KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

"By 1900, the downward slope of Gay Street and the upward slope of a bridge created a road that seemed more like a roller aster — "a pretty absurd thg to fd a by part of town, " Neely said. The pavement lights people walk over daily on the Gay Street siwalk are illumated om the tunnel directly below where the siwalk ed to unrground street area is now jt a ncrete wall led wh utily box. People who wanr to the bottom floor of the buildg on the east si of Gay Street n peer through glass doors at a mural pated on a wall where the street once was.