Mary Louise Eklund

Category: Knoxville

  • Monday Memories – He-Man Belongs In A Hole

     

    He Man figures at ComicCon Rob Blatt Flickr 12dec15
    He-Man figures at Comic-Con by Rob Blatt on flickr. Used under the Attribution NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license he so graciously granted with the image.

    He-Man belongs in a muddy hole.
    Why?
    I dunno.

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  • A Walk In Time Down Gay Street

    A Walk In Time Down Gay Street

    Gay Street, Knoxville, Tennessee

    I grew up with Knoxville, Tennessee being one of the big towns.  If we wanted something and we couldn’t get it in town (Greeneville, Tennessee)  one of the big towns to go for it would be Knoxville.  We went there to do back to school shopping.  We went there for Spring clothes shopping.  We went there for concerts.  We went there for just released movies. It was the big town with more to offer.

    In my day the place we went was West Towne Mall.  Near that was a the hip cool place to get record albums (yep talkin’ vinyl here) the day they were released, Cats Records.  Couldn’t get albums until a week maybe two after release in Greeneville.  Just like movies you had wait for them to be out a bit to make it down the pipeline to Greeneville.

    Gay Street, Knoxville, Tennessee

    Back in my grandmother’s day the hub of action in Knoxville was downtown.  Gay Street was where it happened. That’s where her daddy took her shopping and where she went shopping with my Papaw in tow.

    I have a photo of them made by a street photographer on Gay Street. We think it was the mid to late 1930s when this was taken. In those days a street photographer made your picture then tried to sell it to you.  Kinda like what we see at amusement parks today but then it was in busy places, like Gay Street.

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