Knoxville's Fat Tuday brgs daiquiris to Gay Street

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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). 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.

GET YOUR OZEN DAIQUIRI FIX SOON: FAT TUDAY OPENG ON 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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

FAT TUDAY DAIQUIRI BAR OPENG SOON ON GAY STREET

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.

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