billgregg

The surge in inflation was worldwide and probably mostly due to supply chain issues. From Wikipedia:

"America the Bland", with special attention paid to Nashville, Seattle and Denver: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/realestate/housing-developments-city-architecture.html

You're making a lot of assumptions about the nature of the website. Maybe wait and see what it is?

I'm working on a website that will display, well, not all of them, but a lot of them. The amount of lost architecture in this city (and probably most other American cities) is staggering. It will be several more months before it goes live.

I lived in Memphis for a few years, where every other business is Mid-South Something or Other (unless it's Bluff City Something or Other). I've always interpreted "Mid South" as an east-west thing. The Memphis area and the Mississippi Valley are the Mid South because they lie between the Western South (Texas and perhaps Oklahoma) and the Eastern Seaboard South. Wikipedia doesn't quite agree with that definition, centering the region on Memphis instead of the whole Mississippi Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-South_(region). In any case it doesn't include North Carolina or Virginia or the Appalachian portions of Kentucky and Tennessee. The first terms I think of for the non-Deep South part of the South are "Upper South" or "Upland South", which you run into in cultural studies, linguistics, biology and geology. • Country musicians, for example, generally have an Upland Southern or Appalachian accent, which is a world away from Scarlett O'Hara's Lowland Southern or Deep South accent. • The flora and fauna of the Upland South are pretty different from the Lowland South. • Historically the Deep South was strongly influence by the plantation economy; the Upper South much less so. "Upland South" could be defined so that it follows state lines (AR, TN, KY, VA, NC), or it could be defined as everything above the Fall Line. Here's the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upland_South. I think I've also seen "Mountain South" used to refer more or less the same region. The historical term "Border States" occurred to me, but doesn't really work since it would omit Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina.

They had a two-alarm fire in that church a year ago today: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/firefighters-battle-2-alarm-fire-at-trinity-community-church The current church was built in 1904, but the congregation goes back to 1854 and the 1871 Foster map shows a "Trinity Church" at this location, so it's highly likely that this church (this congregation and its predecessor church building) is the reason Trinity Lane is "Trinity Lane".

Close. The current public square is quite a bit bigger than it was in 1908 (the year the map was made). Whole blocks of buildings were removed on the south and east sides of the square. The street entering the square at the southwest corner in the map is Deaderick and now hits the square dead-center on the west side. So the transfer station was on the block now wholly occupied by the Premier Parking garage at the northwest corner of Deaderick and Third, across the street from UBS.

Via the Nashville History page on FB (Debie Oeser Cox), mass transit in Nashville in 1902.

Agreed. Lots of great European cities have density but not height.

My only experience with HyVee was while living part-time in Bloomington, Ill. They opened a store there in 2015 a few blocks from the Fresh Market. It was a little more upscale than I expected – not Whole Foods by any means, but quite nice. Three years later the Fresh Market closed.

"We've got East Nashville, creatives live, work and dine Get your CBD coffee with a side of some crime" It took us decades to acquire our reputation as a crime hotspot. It's good to know the hipsters haven't ruined it yet.

This has occurred to me as well – not because I don't want to see them but because I wouldn't want to miss any. They form a natural group, and as things stand, they're scattered in different threads.

One nice thing about the old embossed-metal plates was that the technology forced a degree of simplicity on the designer. Now states can clutter the plate with garish backgrounds and unnecessary mottoes and URLs.

NY Times story on the downtown party wagons: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/us/nashville-party-vehicles.html

A 1950 Jersey Farms-branded map "compiled and drawn by city and county planning commissions". Doesn't show the annexations in the last four or five years before consolidation, but does have a lot of detail (and these city limits were unchanged for several decades): https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll23/id/10093/rec/30 I haven't found a good online map of the city from the period 1958 to 1963.