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- GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
- GAY STREET
- TWO GAY STREET RTRANTS MERGE, MAKG ROOM FOR FAI THAI AND S THENTIC CUISE
- GAY STREET
- CLANCY'S TAVERN& WHISKEY HOUSEDISVEROUR STORYCLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE’S PREMIER IRISH PUB. LOTED DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR TO THE HISTORIC TENNSEE THEATRE, AT THE RNER OF GAY STREET AND CLCH AVENUE.ABOUT USDAILY SPECIALSMONDAYTEAM TRIVIA NIGHTSTARTS AT 7PM 1ST PLACE: $50 GIFT CARD2ND PLACE: $25 GIFT CARD3RD PLACE: $10 GIFT CARD TUESDAYBREWSDAY TUESDAY7PM – CLOSE $3 MICRO & DOMTIC DRAFTS $4 IMPORTS & HIGH GRAVY BOGO LIQUID GOLD BEER CHEE WEDNESDAYWINE WEDNESDAY4PM – 10PMHALF PRICE BOTTL OF WETHURSDAYHAPPY HOUR3PM – 7PMWHERE ELSE WOULD YOU RATHER BE?SATURDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASSUNDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASJO THE EXPERIENCEWE OFFER A RELAXED AND TIMATE EXPERIENCE THAT SETS APART OM THE RT. LOTED ON THE SAFE, CLEAN AND BTLG GAY STREET OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, CLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS A UNIQUE SETTG AND THE PERFECT PLACE TO SPEND THE EVENG.VIEW THE EVENTS CALENDAR#GALLERY-0{MARG:TO}#GALLERY-0 .GALLERY-EM{FLOAT:LEFT;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;WIDTH:50%}KNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBCOME VIS US
- MAP MARKER P507 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
- SEE SI VIDA, THE PAN-LAT RTRANT OPENG ON GAY STREET: 'THE ANTHIS OF SCFFY'
GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
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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.
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.
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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. 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.
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.
CLANCY'S TAVERN& WHISKEY HOUSEDISVEROUR STORYCLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE’S PREMIER IRISH PUB. LOTED DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR TO THE HISTORIC TENNSEE THEATRE, AT THE RNER OF GAY STREET AND CLCH AVENUE.ABOUT USDAILY SPECIALSMONDAYTEAM TRIVIA NIGHTSTARTS AT 7PM 1ST PLACE: $50 GIFT CARD2ND PLACE: $25 GIFT CARD3RD PLACE: $10 GIFT CARD TUESDAYBREWSDAY TUESDAY7PM – CLOSE $3 MICRO & DOMTIC DRAFTS $4 IMPORTS & HIGH GRAVY BOGO LIQUID GOLD BEER CHEE WEDNESDAYWINE WEDNESDAY4PM – 10PMHALF PRICE BOTTL OF WETHURSDAYHAPPY HOUR3PM – 7PMWHERE ELSE WOULD YOU RATHER BE?SATURDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASSUNDAYMORNING MIMOSAS11AM – 5PM$4 BLOODY MARY & MIMOSASJO THE EXPERIENCEWE OFFER A RELAXED AND TIMATE EXPERIENCE THAT SETS APART OM THE RT. LOTED ON THE SAFE, CLEAN AND BTLG GAY STREET OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, CLANCY’S TAVERN AND WHISKEY HOE IS A UNIQUE SETTG AND THE PERFECT PLACE TO SPEND THE EVENG.VIEW THE EVENTS CALENDAR#GALLERY-0{MARG:TO}#GALLERY-0 .GALLERY-EM{FLOAT:LEFT;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;WIDTH:50%}KNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBKNOXVILLE IRISH PUBCOME VIS US
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. 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.
MAP MARKER P507 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
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.
SEE SI VIDA, THE PAN-LAT RTRANT OPENG ON GAY STREET: 'THE ANTHIS OF SCFFY'
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.
Live mic n still be found on Gay Street today at the WDVX studs loted si the Knoxville Visors Center. Si note: Televisn was troduced to the regn wh a broadst 1953 om WROL studs the Mechanics Bank buildg on Gay.
Gay Street and events that took place on have been mentned the works of novelists Jam Agee and Cormac McCarthy, humorists Mark Twa and Gee Washgton Harris, and poet and sayist Nikki Gvanni. Gay Street was a settg for paras by the 1850s, and was the scene of many dramatic events, cludg several gunfights, most notably the Mabry-O’Conner gunfight of 1882, which all three batants were killed.