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GAY STREET CEMA
Turn left onto Gay Street at the third traffic light. The Tennsee Theatre is loted at 604 South Gay Street.
510 South Gay Street,. Gay Street Cema. Gay Street,.
LYRIC THEATRE (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.
GAY STREET
Lyric Theatre (Gay Street).
On September 26, 1872 Knoxville’s first opera hoe, Stb’s Theatre, opened on the rner of Gay Street and Cumberland Avenue. 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.