Excerpts from an interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon conducted on 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Nixon discusses Cross...
A postcard of Fifth Avenue looking north from Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This intersection was one of the busiest retail sections of town during the time. Automobiles line both sides of the street, while pedestrians walk the...
A photograph of the opening of Cain-Sloan Department Store's new facility. A crowd of more than 500 persons stood in the early morning chill on Church Street to hear John Sloan, president of Cain-Sloan Co., officially open the firm's new...
A postcard of Fifth Avenue looking north from Church Street in downtown Nashville. Both sides of the street are lined with businesses including Castner Knott and Blach's, both department stores. Some carriages are parked on the sides of the road,...
The Eastern Airlines Stewardess gives a Times Square sign to Mayor Ben West (pictured left) and Kermit C. Stengel (pictured right) at the Nashville Airport in 1953. Another view shows the men placing the sign in downtown Nashville at 6th Avenue...
A 1956 shopping and visitors map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The streets are labeled with address numbers and building names. A straight listing of prominent buildings and stores by category is also included on the lower portion of the...
Some of the student models are pictured with Mayor Briley, promoting the Castner-Knott’s “Fashion Happening,” with “60 Models: Guys and Gals from Nashville High Schools and Colleges,” and “It’s a Happening,” at the War Memorial...
Pictured: Two young boys admiring toys in a department store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: The main floor and decorated upper floor of a department store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: Shoppers at a department store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: Shoppers at a department store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: Shoppers at a department store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: Shoppers at a department store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: Shoppers at a department store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: An interior view of Montgomery-Ward department store during the Christmas season of 1955. This store was located at Fifth Avenue and Union in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1...
Pictured: An interior view of Montgomery-Ward department store during the Christmas season of 1955. This store was located at Fifth Avenue and Union in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1...
Pictured: An interior view of Sears Department Store in downtown Nashville, during the Christmas season of 1955. This store was located at 729 Church Street. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ;...