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[BnaBreaker]

Nashville Hotels by James Palmer, on Flickr

Downtown Nashville Titans in Pinnacle Building Before Super Bowl AFC by Brian Copeland, on Flickr

Nashville, TN by Kaya, on Flickr

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Brad Pippin:

 

[markhollin]

[Bos2Nash]

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

Sometimes I lose sight of just how big MCC truly is!! Filling in Sobro and Pie Town (still hate that name) will go a long way in creating a larger core, but more complete skyline that encompasses such a massive economic driver

[smeagolsfree]

Just think it was mostly surface parking too.

[Bos2Nash]

Glad it got built upon then!

[nashvylle]

[e-dub]

As seen on Reddit. From 1957, it said.

 

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[markhollin]

Courtesy of Richard Byington:

 

[Bos2Nash]

17 hours ago, e-dub said:

As seen on Reddit. From 1957, it said.

 

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Look at that LACK of highway just to the west of downtown!! This is crazy to think that downtown was once this small. I know there is obvious significance of the L+C Tower, but this really put it in perspective. Thanks for sharing!!

[PillowTalk4]

Anyone know the name of the building I circled on the photo below?  And, when was it demolished and why?  It appears to be on Commerce Street and I don't remember such a building.  

So, if you take away the L&C Tower, do you not have Chattanooga today? 

[MLBrumby]

I think it was the Sam Davis hotel.  https://www.tennessean.com/videos/news/local/2015/02/24/23951855/

[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning from Facebook Sky5. 

[volsfanwill]

On 1/11/2020 at 4:21 PM, Native said:

One of Nashville's most unique structures is the James K. Polk state office building that is perched atop the Tennessee Performing Arts Center at Sixth and Deaderick Street.  To avoid columns in the TPAC they built a massive elevator shaft and hung the steel girders for the office building from the top of the central core, a dangerous and time-consuming method of construction.  The project was beset by misfortune.  Steel beams mysteriously slid off the site and struck state employees on their way to work and there was a fire in July of 1978, more than two years after the project began.  There was also a death inside the concrete shaft but I don't recall the cause.  Here are some photos from the early construction phase, including the fire.  Old-timers will recall that the huge excavation sat empty (except for water a la Palmer) while the state struggled to acquire funds for the building.  I think this had something to do with the transition from Gov. Dunn to Gov. Blanton, the latter not being a patron of the arts.

 

The beginning, September, 1976.

 

The core rises, May 1977, as seen from Legislative Plaza.

 

 

 

 

 

Steel is affixed to the top of the core.   June 1978

 

Workers ride in buckets to install the girders.

 

The fire and a bucket rescue.

this is totally facinating.  i always wondered how it was hung from the top.

[markhollin]

Looking East from 18th floor of Drury Plaza Hotel:

Looking East from 8th floor of Drury Plaza Hotel:

[PillowTalk4]

19 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

I think it was the Sam Davis hotel.  https://www.tennessean.com/videos/news/local/2015/02/24/23951855/

Thanks.  After seeing a closer shot of the building I remembered it.  

Since we now have the history behind the James K. Polk/TPAC building, thought I'd search for pictures of what was there before it was built.  I found this video of the demolition of the Andrew Jackson Hotel that once sat on that site.   It's really odd seeing cars driving down through what is the middle of Legislative Plaza.  Unfortunately, I also remember it, even though I was a kid at the time... I just don't feel like I should be remembering all this stuff that seemed so long ago... LOL

 

Edited January 22, 2020 by PillowTalk4

[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning from Facebook Sky5. 

[archilove]

22 hours ago, Sean blackdog said:

Today this morning from Facebook Sky5. 

The city really comes alive at night! Nice photos.

[markhollin]

TBT:  1985
 

[nashvylle]

Nashville's core skyline wasn't too small 35 years ago...

[NashWellington11]

On 1/22/2020 at 9:41 AM, PillowTalk4 said:

 It's really odd seeing cars driving down through what is the middle of Legislative Plaza.  Unfortunately, I also remember it, even though I was a kid at the time... I just don't feel like I should be remembering all this stuff that seemed so long ago... LOL

"Legislative Plaza"  or as I like to call it  "the giant parking garage for the state legislature with a barren, rarely-used patio slapped on top featuring some half-assed reflecting pools with 80s mall fountains in the middle." 

[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning from Facebook Sky5. 

[markhollin]

Looking NE from Gulch:

[MidTenn1]

Not the best framing, but a nice shot anyway. (mine) The old and the new.

[Native]

TPAC and the Polk Building as they look today.