Pritchett-Thomas Garage

Pritchett-Thomas Garage

South’s Larges Garage

Pritchett-Thomas Company, which managed the facility, also operated hotels, apartments, and other garages.
Seventh Avenue Garage

145-149 7th Ave., N.

Southern Coach Lines-Nashville Transit-Nashville Railway & Light

Image courtesy Dave Price

The larger Nashville Transit was for school kids and the  Nashville Railway and Light was at one time the name of the streetcar  company (before Southern Coach Lines).  I believe at the time of the change-over the streetcars were run by what they referred to as “Tepco” meaning I think Tennessee Electric Power Company- which was part of what ended the street cars- Some state commission  ruled that the streetcar company owning the power source constituted an  unlawful something or other.   I was very young  and barely remember  streetcars but the lawsuit is in the books.

The School Bus Token was  originally 3c whereas I believe regular fare was maybe still a nickel.  Adults didn’t use tokens until well after the War.  I am almost certain that the school tokens pre-date the regular ones.  We used to go downtown and buy  them at the old bus barn across Fourth Avenue from the Bijou.  You would get  a big roll for something like a half-dollar. Well, sixteen times 3c is 48c  and maybe you got the seventeenth for 2c to make the roll come out even.  When adult tokens came in I believe they were two for a quarter.  But for a  long time there were lots of things for a nickel:  candy bars, Cokes,  non-school bus rides, phone calls.  I do not remember nickel popcorn though,  that was a dime as far back as I remember.  I believe Streetcar fare was 7c  when they went out, then buses were just a nickel.”
-Dave Price

George Busby Ford

George Busby Ford

From Mike Coursey:”I think these guys turned into Royal Ford down on 8th ave, and after that they moved to Madison and are now known as Town & Country”

Bill Grist adds
“When Hippodrome Ford changed to Hippodrome Olds, the Ford dealership became George Busby Ford.  The dealership was located in the former 7-Up Bottling Plant at 18th and Chuch and moved to West Nashville on Charlotte.  It became Bob Frensley Ford and operated that way until Mr. Frensley and his brother Bo were involved in the problems of former Governor Ray Blanton and his liquor license problems.  It is now Performance Ford.”

Suspension bridge

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CAPTION: Nashville, scene of the “Great Panic,” 1862*. And across the suspension bridge, into the falling city, came Black Bess** and her master in the retreat from Bowling Green.

*As news of the surrender of Fort Donelson reached Nashville the city experienced “The Great Panic” as many Confederate officials and sympathizers find discretion the better part of valor and leave the city rather than to stay and defend it against the advancing Union Army. They left on board railroad cars, steamboats, by wagon. and on foot. It wasn’t a pretty sight.

** Black Bess was the horse of CSA Colonel Morgan

Draughons College

Federal Courthouse and Office Building

There used to be an apartment building on this site, but I can’t recall the name of it. You can see it in the older pictures of the Union Station.