Explore Historic Gay Street Knoxville TN | Thgs to Do

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• TRY ALL 12 DAIQUIRI FLAVORS AT FAT TUDAY, NOW OPEN ON GAY STREET
• FAT TUDAY OPENS AT 417 SOUTH GAY STREET
• GET YOUR OZEN DAIQUIRI FIX SOON: FAT TUDAY OPENG ON GAY STREET
• GAY STREET
• ANOTHER BS MOV TO DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE: FAT TUDAY G TO GAY STREET THIS SPRG
• FAT TUDAY BRGS NEW ORLEANS TO GAY STREET - AND HOPE FOR OPEN NTAER LAW | WHEHEAD
• FAT TUDAY DAIQUIRI BAR OPENG SOON ON GAY STREET

TRY ALL 12 DAIQUIRI FLAVORS AT FAT TUDAY, NOW OPEN ON GAY STREET

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Gay St., wh daiquiris available 12 sweet and sour flavors. Fat Tuday has bar-top and booth seatg, as well as seats the Gay Street wdows and jt outsi the ont door unrneath the glowg neon prime lotn to most fortable, the bt pats downtown FEST:Bt your blon wig out for DollyFt the Old Cy this weekendFOOD:Knoxville fish-and-chips rtrant brgs 'shattergly crisp' batterThere's also a neon sign near the back of the bar room, but the two say the bright lights do not signal a party zone.

Fat Tuday, 417 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2021. Downtown has s send New Orleans based bs (the other is Ruby Sunshe) wh the openg of Fat Tuday at 417 South Gay Street.

FAT TUDAY OPENS AT 417 SOUTH GAY STREET

Cocktail Shrimp and Hurrine, Fat Tuday, 417 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2021 (Dish Provid by the Urban Fay).

GET YOUR OZEN DAIQUIRI FIX SOON: FAT TUDAY OPENG ON GAY STREET

Lra and Kenny Chimeno, owners of Pelin Mounta LLC, are openg a lotn of the bar this sprg at the Historic Krs Buildg on Gay Street. Gay St., is owned by Thomas Boyd, who began revelopment 2020. 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.

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After the war, Gay Street saw extensive mercial velopment as railroad nstctn brought an dtrial boom to Knoxville.

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By 1850, Gay Street was home to three-fourths of Knoxville's mercial activy.

FAT TUDAY BRGS NEW ORLEANS TO GAY STREET - AND HOPE FOR OPEN NTAER LAW | WHEHEAD

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.

FAT TUDAY DAIQUIRI BAR OPENG SOON 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.