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Wings Over Kingsport

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Both of these soft-cover books (8 1/2″ x 11″ each) are quite interesting. “Wings Over Kingsport: Tennessee’s Planned City And Its Industries As Viewed From The Sky” by Richard H. Alvey was published in 1938 and “Wings Over Kingsport No 2: Tennessee’s Planned City & Its Industries As Viewed From The Sky In 1938 and 1963” came out in 1963. The 1938 edition has 63 pages; the 1963 one, 98.

I have a better copy of the 1963 edition, but this is the one that Mr. Alvey gave me after I interviewed him in 1976. (Yes, I can see where I live from here)
These are great fun to look through.

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This was in 2004.  The business had already closed by this time.  There’s a good aerial shot of this complex in its heyday in the “Wings Over Kingsport” second edition by Dick Alvey. I interviewed him once when I had a talk show on a little station in Kingsport.  He was a pleasant guy.  He gladly gave me permission to use a shot of Broad Street he’d taken from the upper window of the train station tower back in 1939.  I worked up a (not very good) ink drawing from it.  Made prints.  Sold some.
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