Downtown mailbag: New Gay Street market brgg sodas, snacks, scratch-offs and smok

Contents:

• COLUMB MOONLIGHT MARKET ON GAY STREET
• SUNDAY SUNLIGHT MARKET ON GAY STREET
• DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• GAY STREET
• THE MARKET AT UNN AND GAY, KNOXVILLE
• AMSTERDAM GAY SHOPS

COLUMB MOONLIGHT MARKET ON GAY STREET

The Columb Moonlight Market on Gay Street is a great Saturday night date or outg!

Moonlight Market on Gay StreetGay Street is by far one of the bt lotns downtown and ntu to grow wh great bs and bs will feature late hours at the regular bs along the street, entertament, and siwalk vendors wh everythg om clothg to baked goods, and pennt Markets n om 4-9 pm. Ann’s 4th Fridays Uptown Wterville – 4th FridaysShort North Gallery Hop – 1st SaturdaysMoonlight Market on Gay Street – 2nd SaturdaysThe Grandview Hop – last Saturday (June-Sept)Sunday Sunlight Market on Gay Street – select SundaysFd more fun date ias below! Friday, July 28, 2023Saturday, July 29, 2023Sunday, July 30, 2023Monday, July 31, 2023Tuday, Augt 1, 2023Wednday, Augt 2, 2023Thursday, Augt 3, 2023Monthly on the 2nd Saturday @ 6:00 pm-11:00 pm (May 13, 2023 - October 14, 2023)Columb Moonlight Market on Gay StreetGay StreetRear Interactns.

You n shop lol durg the day thanks to the Gay Street Collaborative’s BRIGHT first Sunlight Market kicks off the season on May 21, and ntu on 3rd Sundays between May and October om 11am to Markets at PearlGuts n enjoy bnch, shops, and siwalk street markets wh artisan goods and ’s a great day date or fun outg wh iends! Gay Street is one of the bt streets downtown Columb, so there’s a lot to check out!

SUNDAY SUNLIGHT MARKET ON GAY STREET

Makers will be sellg everythg om handma jewelry, home goods, artisan food, vtage clothg, t-shirts, and you haven’t been down to Gay Street or to the Moonlight Market, the Sunlight Market is the perfect time to explore on a Sunday. Columb Moonlight Market on Gay StreetExplore Columb wh Neighborhood Hops and WalksCheck out some of our other monthly neighborhood hops and walks! Friday, July 28, 2023Saturday, July 29, 2023Sunday, July 30, 2023Monday, July 31, 2023Tuday, Augt 1, 2023Wednday, Augt 2, 2023Thursday, Augt 3, 2023Augt 20, 2023 @ 11:00 am-3:00 pmSunday Sunlight Market on Gay StreetSeptember 17, 2023 @ 11:00 am-3:00 pmSunday Sunlight Market on Gay StreetOctober 15, 2023 @ 11:00 am-3:00 pmSunday Sunlight Market on Gay StreetGay StreetRear Interactns.

This week, our downtown Knoxville team answers:Is the Indian rtrant and nvenience store still openg on Gay Street? Convenience store, Indian rtrant g soon to Gay StreetI recently stopped by what's soon to be Ian's Market the 100 block of Gay Street and spoke wh -owner Keyur Patel. He said the store uld open as soon as July 17 or Patel, -owner of the forthg Ian's Market the 100 block of Gay Street, pos for a portra as workers prepare the space for openg day.

Gay St., will have a variety of typil nvenience store ems that clu:BeerChips and snacksCigarettCoffeeIce creamLottery ticketsSodaAn ATM also will be loted si, and Patel said ems will be available through third-party livery servic. Gay St. The new space is roughly the same size as the Gay Street lotn, and we will be the foc.

DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK

However, a small spirs sectn will be for the lotn, Bergmeier said, many Gay Street ctomers e om their hom Happy Holler and Fourth & Gill to shop. Chigo’s Northalsted neighborhood – Ameri’s first regnized gay village and a Chigo LGBTQ+ historic landmark. Market Square Gay Street Old Cy Volunteer Landg World's Fair Park.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

Of Pottstown, prented long-range plans for closure of Gay Street for the Open-Air Market wh an timated price tag of $1. “While uncil hasn’t voted on permanent astcture chang yet, we are favor of the Gay street closure and ntug to close annually the warmer months as well as other special tim throughout the year.

The borough recently swapped ownership of Gay Street for Chtnut Street wh PennDOT and expects to ntue closg Gay Street for four blocks om Matlack Street to Darlgton Street and recreate the panmic-spired Open Air Market. Maybe, Gay Street will host a mi-dog park, karaoke ntts, a bocce ball urt, feature live mic and chalk murals, an Easter egg hunt and public art. It was good to see a lively, vibrant downtown, cludg nearby 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. 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.

GAY STREET

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.

THE MARKET AT UNN AND GAY, KNOXVILLE

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. 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.

AMSTERDAM GAY SHOPS

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.