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| Mountaineer Restaurant Church Hill, TN |
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| The Mountaineer Restaurant features Southern specialties and giant banana splits. The neon hillybilly portion of this sign is not lit at night anymore unless it's been recently repaired. For more, see this website. |
| Baggett Pharmacy Kingston, TN |
ZZ's Kream Kastle Brownsville, TN |
Dix's Plaza Motor Lodge Lebanon, TN |
Pro Bowl West Lebanon, TN |
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Baggett Pharmacy is a nice old shop among many on this well-preserved main street. For more, see this website.
ZZ's Kream Kastle is a nice old restaurant. Dix's Plaza Motor Lodge features a shish kebab style sign. For more, see this website. Pro Bowl West features an eye-catching giant pin. For more, see this website. |
| Belmont Lanes Bristol, TN |
Pepsi Johnson City, TN |
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Belmont Lanes features another great bowling pin sign.
This Pepsi billboard is a real eyecatcher on I-26. Does anyone know how long it's been here? |
| Southern Finance & Thrift Corp. Kingsport, TN |
Kingsport Office Supply Kingsport, TN |
Hog Wild Saloon Kingsport, TN |
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The Southern Finance & Thrift Corp. sign has a cleaned-up look about it. In the early 1990s, neon was installed over the word Southern. I suspect this sign was used for another loan company originally and has been repainted and adapted.
Kingsport Office Supply changed their name to Kingsport Imaging Systems but the sign remains. They now sell and service office equipment. The Hog Wild Saloon now operates out of what appears to be a former motel which used this huge candle sign. Does anyone know what the name of the place was originally? |
| Fraley's Furniture McMinnville, TN |
Dinty Moore's McMinnville, TN |
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Fraley's Furniture is a great old Main Street store.
Dinty Moore's is now vacant. The most recent tenant, The Regal Begal, was respectful enough not to mess with this great sign. |
| Holden Hardware Murfreesboro, TN |
Mullins Jewelry Murfreesboro, TN |
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| These two old businesses are part of the town's square. Holden Hardware continues to be family-run. Mullins Jewelry has been around since 1938. |
| Motel Murfreesboro Murfreesboro, TN |
Starwood Market (closed) Murfreesboro, TN |
Nashville Sporting Goods Nashville, TN |
R&R Liquors Nashville, TN |
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The Murfreesboro Motel is still open and features this gigantic sign.
The Starwood Market building is now vacant and the giant sign will most likely disappear soon. Nashville Sporting Goods has been around since the early 1940s. Walter Nipper bought it in 1950. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. R&R Liquors is still in business. |
| Music City Liquors Nashville, TN |
Congress Inn Nashville, TN |
Soap Opera Laundry Nashville, TN |
Key Motel Nashville, TN |
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I'm not sure if Music City Liquors is still in business. For more, see this website.
Congress Inn was a nationwide chain. There was an identical sign in Lancaster, PA until recently. For more, see this website. The Soap Opera Laundry is still a functioning laundromat. For more, see this website. The Key Motel has been stripped of its neon but the motel is still open. For more, see this website. |
| Drake Hardware Nashville, TN |
Last Chance Liquors Nashville, TN |
Eastside Market Nashville, TN |
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The neon of the Drake Hardware sign is now broken although I believe the store is still in business. There were probably three geese on top of the sign that creating animation.
The Last Chance Liquors sign is surrounded with lively neon arrows. For more, see this website. The Eastside Market sign appears to have had a pulsating star at one point. There is now a BP gas station on the lot now. |
| Ironworkers Local 492 Nashville, TN |
Beaman Pontiac Nashville, TN |
Jones Pet Shop Nashville, TN |
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The Ironworkers Local 492 Labor Union building features an iron sign with a statue of an ironworker.
Beaman Pontiac is now known as the Beaman Automotive Group as they have expanded to selling five other brands of new cars and used cars. This sign is from 1958. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. I don't know whether the Jones Pet Shop sign has been restored or if it's a new adaptation of a previous one. |
| Friedman's Army Navy Store Nashville, TN |
Fox's Donut Den Nashville, TN |
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Friedman's Army Navy Store has been here since at least the 1970s. For more, see this website.
Fox's Donut Den was founded in 1973. They moved to this location in 1977. Their sign features animated neon donut circles. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. |
| Weiss Liquors Nashville, TN |
R & R Liquor Store Nashville, TN |
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Weiss Liquors opened here in 1930. They feature well-maintained old neon signage. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3.
The R & R Liquor Store has similar overlapping shapes. |
| Purity Dairies Nashville, TN |
Carter Flooring Co. Nashville, TN |
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Purity Dairies was founded in 1926. In 1945, they moved to this location. I assume this sign is from then. The company offers tours of its milk and ice cream producing plant. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2.
Carter Flooring Co. has been around since 1946. This sign is probably from the same year. |
| Hard Rock Nashville, TN |
Stage on Broadway Nashville, TN |
Jack's Bar-B-Que Nashville, TN |
Robert's Western World Nashville, TN |
Ernest Tubb Record Shop Nashville, TN |
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This Hard Rock Cafe is just one of many in the chain that feature giant guitars. This one opened in 1994. For more, see their website.
I believe the Stage on Broadway is a new club. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. Jack's Bar-B-Que is another fairly recent addition to Broadway. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. Robert's Western World is another new club on Broadway. It was originally a Western clothing boutique in the early 1990s. For more, see 1 and 2. The Ernest Tubb Record Shop has been here since 1947. The center portion of the sign revolves. For more, see 1, 2, 3, and 4. |
| EZ Mart Nashville, TN |
Fast Service Nashville, TN |
Drake Motel Nashville, TN |
Ozburn-Hessey Carpet Center Nashville, TN |
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This EZ Mart covenience store was obviously a liquor store at one time.
The Fast Service store is on the same block as the EZ Mart and is now an unidentified business. The Drake Motel started out as the Drake Hotel Courts. They have a huge and mostly-functioning neon sign. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Ozburn-Hessey Carpet Center opened in 1953. For more, see this website. |
| Southern Thrift Store Nashville, TN |
Wendell Smith Restaurant Nashville, TN |
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Southern Thrift Store seems to be part of a chain with two other stores still existing in Nashville. I don't know if the others have signs like this.
The Wendell Smith Restaurant features a liquor store in front and a "meat-and-three" restaurant in back. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. |
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