This old building (1938 or so) is being renovated. In 1951, the location is shown as Clinchfield Drug Store. By 1957, it was empty, but has been home to various businesses since then. As you can see from the pictures, it may have started as a bank and realty company.
This Chinese knockoff of a Victorinox pen knife is 56mm by 15mm and is from the current JBR location on Stone Drive. The original JBR Buick at 513 Lynn Garden Drive (now the Hope Haven Retail Store) was founded in 1978 by Neal Jessee, Leon Bray and Bill Roberts. That location closed in 1988.
WJHL’s top show that year was Dallas, just behind ABC’s Dynasty
I ran across this at an estate sale. It’s 7″ x 10″ with 55 pages and some b&w images. Published in 1987 by Overmountain Press. It contains text, statistics and full index.
Back in the 1950s and earlier, these folding fans from the U(sher) O(rlando) Colson Company in Paris, Illinois, were quite the thing. There were dozens of designs, but this one caught the eye of the management of Broadstreet Furniture Company, telephone 150.
This was lent to me by a buddy whose father worked for Eastman. He didn’t have any idea of the date range.
It’s 1 3/4″ wide and 2 1/2″ tall. It doesn’t carry a sterling mark. There are letters on the reverse but they’re badly worn. I can make out “DEPT”. It has a fairly heavy duty pin on the reverse. It weighs 20 grams.
I can’t remember if this was a feature of the first or second iteration of Kingsport Grocery Company. The owners/managers valiantly tried to make a go of the restaurant, but it just didn’t have legs. I fondly remember Benedictine and brandy on a Saturday afternoon…a long time ago.
No mud, no lotus.
In 1963 this location at 1017 West Stone Drive was a spanking new Howard Johnson’s. By 1970 it was a Best Western/Tennesse Motor Lodge, then in 2002 it was Westside Inn. Now it’s off to the dustbin…
The Original Cheers! Funeatery, operated by Funeateries of Johnson City, came to Kingsport in 1987 and exited in the early 2000s (if you know the date this restaurant actually closed, please leave a comment. thank you). The Johnson City location closed in 1997.
When Cheers! came to Kingsport, it occupied a location formerly housing Ciatti’s Italian Restaurant and Bee Bop’s – a theme restaurant.
Bob Lawrence's Kingsport 