Posted in Nashville
August 12, 2017
Check Out These 12 Forgotten Photos of Nashville
The history of our great city is long and illustrious. It’s chock-full of great people doing great things, the raw run of war and captivating stories of heroism that bust up years and leave us wondering at the ways things used to be. We stumbled across an absolute treasure trove of photographs, some dated, others whose moments in time have been lost to the past, and fell in love with the beauty of them all. Care to take a look?
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Undated, but still beautiful.
Taken at some point in the mid-twentieth century.
Johnny Cash, performing a set at the now decrepit Tennessee State Prison.
What a strange step back in time for music history...
The beautiful restaurant has since been closed down, but the building still stands in north Nashville.
What a beautiful place, so very long ago.
It was destroyed in 1985.
This photograph was taken on February 20, 1960.
It's a shot of the Imperial House Apartments, taken on February 16, 1962.
Or perhaps entering? We'll never know.
You can still visit this local legend, located on Broadway in downtown Nashville.
This is a shot of President John F. Kennedy, en route to Vanderbilt University.
What a neat step back in time, wouldn’t you say? Leave your thoughts on the photographs below!
