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    Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
    Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
    Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
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    Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s

    By Ashley Driggs Haugen and Bob Grannis

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    In a nation reinventing itself following victory in World War II, Nashville’s self-portrait blended old with new. New businesses and skyscrapers, a shopping mall, the Interstate system, school integration, and other changes would ultimately bring Nashville into line with the direction of the nation at large, but alongside nationwide trends were treasures unique to the city: Fair Park for thrill-seekers, Sulphur Dell for baseball fans, the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman for music, and the Maxwell House for visitors still arriving through Union Station and now from the air at Berry Field.

    In this companion volume to Historic Photos of Nashville, Ashley Driggs Haugen leads a tour past many Nashville landmarks from the recent past, reminiscing with Nashvillians who can remember and informing those new to the city who may not. Nearly 200 images reproduced in vivid black-and-white show the Opry at the Ryman, construction of the L&C Tower, 100 Oaks Mall, the Municipal Auditorium, Harveys Department Store downtown, and countless other subjects from yesteryear that remain key to the city’s past and present.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
    ISBN9781618584106
    Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
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    Ashley Driggs Haugen

    Ashley Driggs Haugen is a lifelong Nashvillian and an award-winning writer. Having been a huge fan of the Grannis Photography archives for many years, the pleasure of writing this book has been all hers.  Haugen is Editor-in-Chief of Her Nashville, the city’s premier women’s publication. Prior to launching Her Nashville for SouthComm Communications, she was managing editor of Nashville, Williamson, and Rutherford Parent magazines, all publications of Day Communications. Raised in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood, Haugen attended Franklin Road Academy and Boston University, graduating from the College of Communication with a B.S. in film and television. She resides in West Nashville with her husband and three children.

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      Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s - Ashley Driggs Haugen

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      NASHVILLE

      IN THE 50S, 60S, AND 70S

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY ASHLEY DRIGGS HAUGEN

      An aerial view of downtown Nashville. At the top of the photograph is the new L&C Tower. Visible at bottom are Union Station and the train yard. With the Train Shed (at bottom right), the station in profile reminded imaginative onlookers of an engine with its train.

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      NASHVILLE

      IN THE 50S, 60S, AND 70S

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

      (615) 255-2665

      www.turnerpublishing.com

      Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s

      Copyright © 2009 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009922629

      ISBN: 978-1-59652-539-9

      Printed in China

      09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16—0  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      AFTER THE WAR (1946–1959)

      POISED FOR GROWTH AND CHANGE (1960–1969)

      TOWARD THE FUTURE (1970S)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      Bluegrass legend Bill Monroe is shown here at the Opry in the 1970s. Often venerated as the Father of Bluegrass, Monroe joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1939.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals and organizations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge the valuable contribution of the following for their generous support:

      Brenda Colladay, Museum and Photograph Curator, Grand Ole Opry

      Deborah Oeser Cox, Metro Davidson County Archives

      Chip Curley, Nashville history enthusiast

      Ken Fieth, Metro Archivist

      Leila Grossman, Owner, Grannis Photography

      Aubrey B. Harwell, Jr., Chief Manager, Neal & Harwell, PLC

      Bill Lundy

      Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library

      Jimmie and Elizabeth Stevens

      ———————

      Prints of images appearing in this publication can be purchased by visiting the Grannis Photography Web site at

      www.grannisphotography.com

      PREFACE

      In the footsteps of the wildly popular Historic Photos of Nashville, we present Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, a continuation of the pictorial journey of this great southern metropolis. The photographs presented on the following pages come exclusively from the archives of longtime Nashville photographer Bob Grannis of Grannis Photography. His collection is still highly regarded as an intriguing and appreciative look at all that was Nashville in the decades most directly shaped by the watershed events of World War II.

      These photographs were selected from thousands of Grannis’s negatives, all of which have been carefully preserved by Leila Grossman, who purchased Grannis Photography in 1997. The photos selected for inclusion in this book represent Nashville in the truest sense, as a city that rode the postwar high in the fifties, weathered the political, social, and cultural changes of the sixties, and eventually settled into the seventies as a rapidly growing and expanding metropolis.

      The images, which span the postwar era up to the late 1970s, showcase Nashville during its most developmentally vulnerable period. As the city emerged following World War II, her citizens were eager for good things they hoped would come—and nothing seemed impossible! In the 1950s, downtown Nashville flourished, relishing its role as the go-to spot for shopping, dining, and leisure activities. For school kids, the Children’s Museum in the Peabody Building on Rutledge Hill, with its O-gauge model railroad, mysterious grand pendulum pacing the foyer, and two shrunken heads lining the balustrade of a creaky wooden staircase, was not to be missed. The decade was a storybook time that held an almost tangible air of confidence.

      In the late 1950s and 1960s, the consolidation of government, desegregation, the building of the Interstate system, and relaxing of the blue laws brought significant political, cultural, and social shifts. Nashville was seeking to shed

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