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Dempster-Dumpster: From Knoxville to the Panama Canal

Chuck Allen September 9, 2009 Business, Local History 5 Comments

Is there a piece of Knoxville history you’d like to know more about? Ask Chuck or tweet him. To build the Panama Canal was to move heaven and earth: to bring 360 ft of elevation of the Cordillera Central, the continental divide, down to sea canal; to push through 48 …

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Kid Curry Takes On the Knoxville Police Department, Part 2

Chuck Allen July 15, 2009 Local History 2 Comments

This is the second piece of a two-part series. Get caught up and read the first entry here. The thrill of victory pulsed through the veins of the KPD officers on the train ride back to Knoxville from Jefferson City. With photographs, received days before by mail, and matching serial …

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Kid Curry Takes On the Knoxville Police Department, Part 1

Chuck Allen June 11, 2009 Local History 5 Comments

Hollywood, the Old West, the country of Bolivia, and most importantly Knoxville, TN. What ties them together here is a movie and a man and if you guessed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, then you’ve guessed the movie. But if Paul Newman or Robert Redford come to mind, then …

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How Knoxvillians Used to Cross the Tennessee River

Chuck Allen May 26, 2009 Local History Leave a Comment

Skiers traveling up to Ober Gatlinburg via the resort’s aerial tramway probably never imagine that it was Knoxville, and not a ski resort, that was home to the very first version of that mode of transportation in the sky. Yet in 1894, decades before Ober Gatlinburg was even a thought, …

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Birthplace of McDonald’s Apple Pie: Magnolia Avenue

Chuck Allen May 12, 2009 Business, Local History 17 Comments

“How about a two-for-one apple kolacky with your Extra Value Meal?” For good or for ill, this Eastern European version of a danish is not what you’ll likely find as a dessert option the next time you’re at McDonald’s. But if it hadn’t been for one particularly industrious Knoxvillian, it …

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