Tuesday Treasures

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Travel Tuesday

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My Corner of the World

Irish pubs in Toronto

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Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day

For Tuesday Treasures I posted photos from a 1992 road trip to Tennessee. It had me comparing photos from more recent trips to Nashville.

These photos are from 2013.

Click here to visit Ernest Tubb's Museum.

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Yes, the sign is true!

Cotton Eyed Joe for souvenirs.

Acme Farm Supply, a fixture in Nashville for over ninety years, called this three-story building home for over fifty years. Acme Stock & Poultry Company originally operated on First Avenue North near the Public Square, beginning in 1907. Generations of Nashvillians knew that Acme was the place to go for poultry, feed, and seed; the company diversified in the latter years of the 20th century to include pet supplies and gardening supplies and Nashville promotional items for tourists. The three-story commercial Victorian building was originally a flour warehouse, but also served as the Bearden Buggy Company, Tennessee Wholesale Drugs, and Chadwell Transfer & Storage before Acme moved to this location in the 1940s. Competition from suburban big-box retailers and encroaching urban development forced Acme Farm Supply to close in 1999.

The architecturally significant Merchants Restaurant building dates back to 1892.

Specializing in country and bluegrass vintage vinyl records, the Lawrence Record Shop has been in operation since 1954 by the Lawrence family of Hendersonville, including Jack Lawrence (1926-1994) and Ida Lawrence (1922-2015). Their son Paul Lawrence was longtime manager of the shop. Closed in 2016. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and protected by a conservation overlay.

Now closed. Paradise Park Trailer Resort.

 

Tuesday Treasures

 Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

Travel Tuesday

Our World Tuesday

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My Corner of the World

Postcards

Toronto ON

Click here for a history of Toronto lane naming and a list of other lanes. That post is a work in progress, and gets updated frequently.

This has been languishing in my drafts folder as I cannot find the reason for the name.

It is near Victoria St.

The pub sign belongs to the Imperial Pub, and don't believe the hype in their write up. We went in last summer and walked back out.

The historical Imperial Pub is a true Toronto landmark that has been pouring draught for 64 years and counting. It is also a truly a family business. Jack Newman founded the Imperial Pub in 1944. His son Fred joined him behind the bar in 1968.

There are/were some murals down the lane if you can manage the stench! It's not a lane I would walk down.

There is a nice utility box at the corner.

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Toronto ON

Weekend Roundup

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Starts with "U"

We'll take a road trip this round.

Ute Lake derives its name from the Ute Indians. The Ute Indians called themselves Nunt'z, "the people," and were originally a Plains tribe that was driven into the Rocky Mountains by other Native Americans. They originally hunted as far west as the Great Salt Lake in Utah and as far east as northeastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and southeastern Colorado. The Shoshoni and Comanche Indians called them Ute Indians. 

Photo 2017 New Mexico

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UNICORNS Thornhill Scotland

UNDER

UNDER the counter in the market Mazatlan Mexico

Déjà Brew
A catchall for leftover beer, coffee, food and whatever catches my fancy!

Milwaukee WI Riverwalk

Weekend Roundup

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1. Starts with "L"  
2. A Favorite
3.  - chosen by Tom

Starts with "L"

Taking a road trip this round.

LOUISBOURG Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia

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Gorgeous LIBRARIANS at the LIBRARY Gentlemen's Club  LAS Vegas NV 2015

LOVELY LADIES

Hamilton ON

Lyon France Live Love Laugh Leave Libations

Small Smaller Smallest

 One Word Sunday

Saint John New Brunswick

Wytheville VA

Weekend Roundup

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DEVIL DOG Road Arizona

I learned my lesson last week so I investigated this sign that I randomly took on one of our road trips to Las Vegas.

And WOW it turned out to be very interesting!

Olive Goddard was born in 1881 in New Orleans. As a young lady, she was taken with the Pentecostal Movement of 1901. They spoke in varies languages, but Goddard never did. A remarkable octogenarian known as “Madam Eve” would speak mumbled drivel for hours while prompt by the Spirit. No one seemed to know what was being said so Goddard decided to attend the Divinity School of Holy Ghost Bible College to try and decode the glossolalia gibberish. She got this idea to record Madam Eve and play the recording backwards. To her surprise, what was said was lucid American English. Her deduction was that the Holy Spirit spoke an inverted language.


In 1921, she bought property in the Arizona desert and started the Palindromic Church of God. Her sermons were transposed and she was skilled enough to understand the words in reverse. This ability steered her towards proclaiming herself a prophet. Only a minority of followers bought into her accusations of being a spiritualist. It wasn’t until 1939 when she was accepted by the Corps of Phenomenal Explorers, that she finally felt understood.


It was her critics who labeled her “Dr. God” and old-school evangelist, Vernon Forge who branded her “Prophetess of Devil Dog Road”. He campaigned against her “so-called” religious beliefs saying it was no more than satanic insinuations. She had a cabin on Devil Dog Road, but only used it as a divine sanctuary.

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You can take the DINOSAUR Trail in DRUMHELLER Alberta

DELIGHTFUL

DOG Pub Williamsburg Virginia

Déjà Brew
A catchall for leftover beer, coffee, food, motels and whatever catches my fancy!

DOMINION Tavern and DUNN'S (for smoked meat!) Montreal QC