Explore Historic Gay Street Knoxville TN | Thgs to Do

Contents:

• RTRANTS NEAR GAY STREET PLAZA SHOPPG CENTER
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• GAY STREET
• TWO GAY STREET RTRANTS MERGE, MAKG ROOM FOR FAI THAI AND S THENTIC CUISE
• 67 E GAY STREET
• GAY STREET DG GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY MAP
• MOSW GAY BARS

RTRANTS NEAR GAY STREET PLAZA SHOPPG CENTER

Gay St. 800 South Gay Street. 602 South Gay Street.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

2700 Plaza Tower, 800 S Gay St.

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Gay Street. 424 South Gay Street. 430 South Gay Street.

135 South Gay Street.

135 S Gay Street. 530 South Gay Street On the rooftop of the Hyatt Place hotel. Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment.

TWO GAY STREET RTRANTS MERGE, MAKG ROOM FOR FAI THAI AND S THENTIC CUISE

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.

67 E GAY STREET

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.

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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.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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.

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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. 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.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

It was the first of several theaters that kept Gay Street l up at night.

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

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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.