We’ve all come to know Nashville as Music City, where young dreamers show up to be stars and the rolling country hills stretch on for miles. Although Nashville has become a cult favorite for bachelorette parties across the nation, we have a sweet history that’s too quickly forgotten. Here’s a peep at Nashville, the way she was, so many years ago.
- The City Market in 1955.
Metro City Archives A blast from the past, wouldn’t you say?
- A shot of Memorial Square, via 1950.
Metro City Archives Nashville’s skyline looks WAY different nowadays. All those new condos…?
- You don’t ride these buses anymore, do ya?
Metro City Archives But we wish we did!
- Wow - does anyone remember Sulpher Dell?
Metro City Archives It was our minor league baseball park that was opened in 1870, almost making it to a century of use before it was demolished in 1969
- Nashville’s downtown arcade in the 1930s.
Metro City Archives Art walks and downtown afternoon lunches have breathed new life into the arcade.
- Is this really West End?!
Metro City Archives This is a joke…? Right? Nah, just West End back in the day.
- Here you can see 8th Avenue near Church Street.
Metro City Archives This photograph was taken around 1931.
- And the war memorial gardens, sometime in the thirties.
Metro City Archives There’s not an exact date for this shot, but we’d kill for the beauty of those gardens again.
- Capitol Hill in the 1940s looks like something out of a fairy tale.
Metro City Archives Flip the switch on the previous photo, and you have an entirely different view of Nashville.
- The General Hospital, in 1910.
Metro City Archives The hospital has since been closed.
- Taking down the Sam Davis Hotel in 1985
Metro City Archives This is probably the prettiest way you could present demolition…
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A blast from the past, wouldn’t you say?
Nashville’s skyline looks WAY different nowadays. All those new condos…?
But we wish we did!
It was our minor league baseball park that was opened in 1870, almost making it to a century of use before it was demolished in 1969
Art walks and downtown afternoon lunches have breathed new life into the arcade.
This is a joke…? Right? Nah, just West End back in the day.
This photograph was taken around 1931.
There’s not an exact date for this shot, but we’d kill for the beauty of those gardens again.
Flip the switch on the previous photo, and you have an entirely different view of Nashville.
The hospital has since been closed.
This is probably the prettiest way you could present demolition…
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