A celebration at the Nashville Airport in front of the American Airlines Astojet. Pictured left to right are: Judge Beverly Briley, unidentified man, and Mayor Ben West, celebrating the jet flight out of Nashville on June 11th, 1961. The signage...
Andrew Benedict with grandchild and parents (Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bell “Buddy” Benedict III) in Mayor Ben West’s office on November 18th, 1962. Andrew Bell Benedict, Jr. was a distinguished leader of First American National Bank who held...
Nashville Mayor Briley is pictured beside a huge envelope display produced by the Atlantic Envelope Company, a Division of National Service Industries, Inc. The 1967 City Directory cites the business address at 888 Elm Hill Pike, Sigmund Held,...
A tree planting ceremony at the Bailey’s Food Market, a retail grocery store located at 900 2nd Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. Mayor Ben West is present for the event, as well as many traffic “patrol mothers” and two traffic police...
The Christmas Lighting with Mayor Ben West at Belle Meade Plaza on November 20th, 1961. This festive celebration at the plaza, located on Harding Road, included music entertainment by the West High School Band and choral singers. Forms part of...
Mayor Briley is pictured shaking hands with a businessman at Briggs Bros. Paint Company, circa 1969. This successful business was located in East Nashville at 501 Woodland Street, a manufacturer and seller of paints and coating throughout the...
A photograph of the Nashville City Reservoir, in Nashville, Tennessee, as it was being constructed in 1877. An accompanying article describes the completed structure, as quoted: "The City Reservoir, which was built in 1887, cost the city of...
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...
Mayor Ben West and County Judge Beverly Briley with several government and military officials at the Civil Defense air raid control center at the Nashville YMCA in March 1954. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 5...
Presentation of a check donated by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to Nashville Mayor Ben West, promoting the Civil Defense program. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
The introduction of Civil Defense identification chains in Nashville, Tennessee with Mayor Ben West, December 1954. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
1964 Civil Defense training in Nashville, Tennessee, with Mayor Briley and Nashville-Davidson County Civil Defense staff. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 4 photograph negatives : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
The new Cokesbury Book Store opening in downtown Nashville, with Mayor Ben West cutting ribbon, marking the official ceremony on March 3rd, 1958, at 417 Church Street. The 1958 City Directory cites Philip C. Warden, Manager. The name Cokesbury is a...
Nashville Banner reporter Dick Battle (pictured on right) and two photojournalists on a helicopter flight at the airport, November 1954. Battle came to Nashville from his native St. Louis in 1916. He graduated from Goodlettsville High School in...
Doug Berry and Burkley Allen of Sister Cities present commemorative “Spirit of Nashville” flood relief posters to Dr. Lutz Trümper, the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany, Nashville’s sister city, in October of 2010. Citizens of Magdeburg organized...
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...
Edwin W. Craig, Chairman of National Life and Accident Insurance Company, receives a resolution from Mayor Ben West on May 3rd, 1962. Craig advised L&A’s board to venture into radio as a good marketing tool, and WSM-AM radio was born. Soon, the...
An excerpt from an interview with former Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton, conducted on May 30, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Fulton discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county...
An excerpt from an interview with former Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton, conducted on May 30, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Fulton discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted on 3 April 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley, who was Mayor of Nashville from 1963 to...