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Contents:
- GAY STREET CEMA
- LYRIC THEATRE (GAY STREET)
- DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK
- GAY STREET
- GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
- GAY KNOXVILLE TRAVEL GUI
GAY STREET CEMA
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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. Lyric Theatre (Gay Street).
LYRIC THEATRE (GAY STREET)
Movie tim for Regal Riviera, 510 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN, 37902. * gay st knoxville movie theater *
On September 26, 1872 Knoxville’s first opera hoe, Stb’s Theatre, opened on the rner of Gay Street and Cumberland Avenue. Gay Theatre.
The Strand stands on the wt si of Knoxville’s ma downtown thoroughfare, Gay Street. This week, our downtown Knoxville team answers:Is the Indian rtrant and nvenience store still openg on Gay Street?
DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK
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. 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. Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment.
GAY STREET
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.
GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
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. 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 KNOXVILLE TRAVEL GUI
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.