Gay Street: Knoxville, Tennsee

Contents:

• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• GAY STREET CEMA
• GAY STREET BRIDGE NSTCTN ED 4 LN POUNDS OF STEEL | OPN
• $30M GAY STREET VELOPMENT ULD CHANGE FACE OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE
• GAY STREET
• GAY STREET
• GAY STREET: KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

Gay Street Cema.

Gay Street,. In the early-1970’s, there were two adult movie theaters on Gay Street. Bis the Bijou Theatre, which was then showg X-rated movi, there was also the Gay Street Cema which had opened on September 25, 1969.

Dpe the name, they showed straight, not gay, movi. BookerSixty years ago downtown Knoxville was abuzz wh people picketg the three Gay Street movie theaters. "There had been a steerg mtee head by Black pastors to oversee activi at lunch unters, but there was no mtee for nductg monstratns at the virtually every neighborhood had a theater, was cid to ncentrate on the Gay Street movie ho.

GAY STREET CEMA

The openg of the new steel and ncrete Gay Street Bridge across the Tennsee River on July 6, 1898, had required a lot of materials, many workers and tirels efforts to raise funds to build . A person cross the Gay Street Bridge on a foggy morng Knoxville on Jan.

Half of Gay Street om Ma to Hill as well as vant lots that vicy were piled high wh more Tennsee voic: Get the weekly opn newsletter for sightful and thought-provokg before the formal openg of the bridge, the Journal and Tribune reported what was perhaps the first rerd suici om the Gay Street Bridge when a pestrian, Ga Emmert, said a man was walkg behd him on the bridge when he heard a splash below. He may be reached at article origally appeared on Knoxville News Sentel: Opn: Gay Street Bridge nstctn ed 4 ln pounds of steel.

The $30-ln project is unr nstctn, signed to nnect the parts of Gay Street that are separated by a by tersectn. The whole ia behd the project is to get people visg the 300 block of Gay Street to cross Summ Hill and go on toward the 200 block. The se ss next to the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the rner of Gay Street and Summ Hill.

GAY STREET BRIDGE NSTCTN ED 4 LN POUNDS OF STEEL | OPN

“The wt buildg is seven stori and the buildg facg Gay Street is three stori.

Turn left onto Gay Street at the third traffic light. The Tennsee Theatre is loted at 604 South Gay Street. 803 South Gay Street, Knoxville, Tennsee, 37902.

Gay St, Knoxville, Tennsee, 37902. 604 South Gay Street, Knoxville, Tennsee, 37902. Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment.

$30M GAY STREET VELOPMENT ULD CHANGE FACE OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE

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

GAY STREET

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 STREET

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.

GAY STREET: KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

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.

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

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.