Here we are looking east down the 900 block of Watauga. It’s around 1934 or so. This is a T.J. Stephenson commissioned card printed by Tichnor Brothers. It appears a little faded, but it’s not. This was done before Tichnor introduced the embossing (linen pattern) roller into the printing process which supported more vivid colors.
In 1930, as the Nation slowly eased into the Great Depression, a group of Kingsport rainmakers gathered to form a new institution: Kingsport Federal Building and Savings Association (Wolfe, Margaret Ripley. Kingsport Tennessee A Planned American City. University of Kentucky Press 1987). The bank became Heritage Federal late in 1978 and folded its tents in 1995.
Bob Lawrence's Kingsport 