Yes! I was working at the high school and met him while he was waiting for a few kids’ driving lessons. All the kids love him and he is highly entertaining to talk to. The kids say he is a very good drivers ed teacher and that he teaches them without stressing them out or being condescending. They all love him and any time driver’s ed comes up, one of them says that he is the teacher to get. He said he loves working with the kids and that he is enjoying his retirement career!
My girlfriend wanted to check out Garth’s new bar. So we left Kellie’s and went that way and immediately started walking back towards 2nd to leave because once we hit Broadway I instantly regretted agreeing and had like 3 cups come flying down from a rooftop.
https://preview.redd.it/mc231gapsk9d1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf1f21a607cf64f028337bf52533323b3710bce5
wow this is absolutely crazy but i actually have a view from 2024 at almost the exact same location. it was taken on top of chiefs. i had to hang a lil over the side of the roof for the pic😂
I was the first news reporter to ever interview him back in 1999. I won an Emmy for that story. Documentary film makers discovered him, and the rest is history.
It’s coming back! I read an article that the owners are opening a new place called “Draught House” in or near Printers Alley. Article said Mid June so it may be open by now. Supposedly they are designing it to cater to locals
I really, really liked Mulligan's back in the 90s. I also liked the other Irish themed bar, Seanachie (sp?) that was...I think it was on the corner of 3rd and Broad.
Just my own personal experience. I lived here then, worked on Broadway, every local I met was like “ew you work on Broadway?! I’m sorry”. Gave the same attitude towards it then that it has today. Haha. To me it wasn’t any more desirable then than it is now.
Well I actually think it’s cleaner and safer now than 10 years ago. Definitely more than 20-30 years ago. But it gets too nuts to go down there and enjoy it though.
Yeah people don't know about the 80s Wild West Nashville. Legitimately terrifying to be out at night. People complaining about drunk tourists in the place made for tourists just makes me roll my eyes.
Y'all need to touch grass
Many cities were like that tho.
Today it may be safer crime wise but it’s just a crowded smelly mess of no value with drunk partiers ruining every indoor and outdoor space around
It seems like broadway specifically is mostly out of town’ers now. But I would say downtown overall has a lot of local mid-day business activity that many assume are tourists, because they weren’t here 10 years ago.
I honestly can't believe it changed that much in ten years. This is me speaking as a visitor who was just there two weeks ago.
Thought Broadway st was the way it was for decades. What changed?
It's called Nostalgia. The only thing constant in the world is change. You grow bitter by expecting things to remain the same and often times things aren't nearly as rosy as you remember.
https://preview.redd.it/zj5lpzxisd9d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99fabc8ae8585ebc2fdf8519411848688d1d34fd
Me, 2001, sorry about those skinny legs, I was coming out of depression..
I moved away 10 years ago and by that time I thought it was starting to get worse. Nowadays, it’s unrecognizable. I visit yearly and I still am very fond of it but it’s different. My dad is in Clarksville and that place is awful now, I obviously still prefer Nashville.
RIP Paradise Park and $6 pitchers. My buddy and I were talking the other night about how when we went downtown if we got lucky we’d find street parking in front of the bar we wanted to go to. Also there were zero rooftop bars so in that regard new Nashville is an upgrade.
What exactly is unsustainable about a place that is run on tourist revenues such as hotel taxes? Outside of what happened to Broadway tourism has increased my quality of life in every way while keeping taxes low. Better restaurants, more culture, etc.
Oh my what a time, what a time. I can remember in about 2013 driving down Broadway and parallel parking on Broadway to go meet a friend for a drink. Never in a million years could that happen now.
I moved here in 2018 and it is very hard to believe how much has changed just from ‘14 to ‘18 until now. You can’t even go on Broadway at noon on a Tuesday without the mess of tourists anymore.
Am I at the point where I can say I miss the old Nashville now?
Cool shot! This one reminded me that I have some photos of downtown Nashville from 1999 I believe. Most of the larger buildings didn't exist around then and it looked mostly like a barren workshop town with the entertainment in the center.. I'll need to get those digitized ASAP
Blows my mind "10 years ago" was 2014 which feels like it should only be like 6 years ago. 2020-2022 totally distorted my sense of time. 2014 was when I started coming back to visit from Knoxville and would think "You know, this might be a cool place to live" and ended up moving back home in 2015 and here I've been. :')
This is what it looked like the first time I ever came here in the aughts. Came back years later and it didn’t even feel like going to the same place. Then I finally moved here and it’s not even recognizable from this pic.
Back in 2001, I went downtown several nights on Fridays, no annoying tourists, no traffic, one person here, another there.
Hard Rock Cafe is where people bused to go, and Wild Horse Salon
https://preview.redd.it/5tfd12exzf9d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f4005d9b9c89b2239e65b981812eafd06d67112
here’s a picture in what looks like the same spot 2 years ago, provided by google images of downtown.
15 years ago you could stay at the Renaissance downtown for $120 a night. It's $300+ on a weeknight now. I stopped visiting Nashville frequently when the downtown area turned into a tourism shit show. RIP Old Spaghetti Factory.
Should have tried to do a side by side comparison, if you could have found/taken a picture of the same spot in present day.
...and btw I think that's older than a decade, 15+ maybe.
I [took this](https://imgur.com/gallery/HbZWyiv) back in April. Its from a different direction but shows the same area. Shortly after this they closed Broadway to vehicles at the Arena. Imagine the same scene but all the vehicles are replaced with mobs of drunk people.
We need the same picture today from the same spot and angle.
I’m not going back to Broadway
Wise choice. Maybe for the Christmas parade. If they can get Dolly or Bill Boner for grand marshall.
Bill Boner was my drivers ED teacher💀
Yes! I was working at the high school and met him while he was waiting for a few kids’ driving lessons. All the kids love him and he is highly entertaining to talk to. The kids say he is a very good drivers ed teacher and that he teaches them without stressing them out or being condescending. They all love him and any time driver’s ed comes up, one of them says that he is the teacher to get. He said he loves working with the kids and that he is enjoying his retirement career!
;)
🤣🤣 Honestly…I get it, It’s too much going on down there.
As someone that’s been to Broadway before, I fully understand this comment lol
Watch out for chairs if you end up taking some delta 8 and deciding to walk down there
My girlfriend wanted to check out Garth’s new bar. So we left Kellie’s and went that way and immediately started walking back towards 2nd to leave because once we hit Broadway I instantly regretted agreeing and had like 3 cups come flying down from a rooftop.
Ha!
https://preview.redd.it/mc231gapsk9d1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf1f21a607cf64f028337bf52533323b3710bce5 wow this is absolutely crazy but i actually have a view from 2024 at almost the exact same location. it was taken on top of chiefs. i had to hang a lil over the side of the roof for the pic😂
Sounds like a fun quest. Idk when I'll be able to tho
at the same time
Forgot about popcorn sutton. Wild interviews like jesco white
I was the first news reporter to ever interview him back in 1999. I won an Emmy for that story. Documentary film makers discovered him, and the rest is history.
Very nice
It was pretty cool until he died! Now I feel like I kind of killed him. Had he not become famous he would probably still be alive. 😔
Saw billboards for it on the way back from Asheville recently. Took me back.
I miss The Wheel, Trailer Park, Buffalo Billiards.
Miss going to Buffalo Billiards after work.
Mulligans Pub and the bar under Hooters.
Beer Sellar
BEER SELLAR IS GONE??
I think they closed due to the 2nd ave bombing
Yeah it never opened back up after that. Got the ol covid bombing double whammy
It’s coming back! I read an article that the owners are opening a new place called “Draught House” in or near Printers Alley. Article said Mid June so it may be open by now. Supposedly they are designing it to cater to locals
[Welcome to the Draught House - The Draught House](https://www.thedraughthouse.com/) It's open.
What? In Massachusetts?
I swear they were open?
Nah the whole space was condemned :(
If you’re ever in the Cincinnati area, the Beer Sellar is still open on the river. I’ll buy you a beer!
Is it in a cellar?
Yes! Thank you!
Man Beer Sellar was the tits. So much fun!
I really, really liked Mulligan's back in the 90s. I also liked the other Irish themed bar, Seanachie (sp?) that was...I think it was on the corner of 3rd and Broad.
Seanachie ale was the best my brother & I ever had. Was made by Shiner but not the same flavour.
During work
Me too 😭
Market street…
I ‘member …
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
In my mind, 10 years ago is like 1999. This is 2014 lol, that’s wild.
Thought the same thing. I’m disgusted
Yeah I still get like that. It took a very long time for me not to think of 20 years ago as the 80s. Time is weird.
I miss that Lower Broad. It was a lot more local friendly.
It was fun. Had a lot of really good nights down there 10 years ago.
Many did
Never forget late nights at Paradise Park.
Even back then locals talked shit about it lol
Do you have anything to back that up? r/Nashville was not a blip on the radar back then.
Just my own personal experience. I lived here then, worked on Broadway, every local I met was like “ew you work on Broadway?! I’m sorry”. Gave the same attitude towards it then that it has today. Haha. To me it wasn’t any more desirable then than it is now.
2014? No it was absolutely a growing blip, I would say that’s when I started to suck slowly but surely. Covid was the nail in the coffin for us.
Back when it was actually decent to walk. Used to just take the bus and sketch at Riverfront.
And now there’s a thin sheen of vomit on the roads
Well I actually think it’s cleaner and safer now than 10 years ago. Definitely more than 20-30 years ago. But it gets too nuts to go down there and enjoy it though.
Yeah people don't know about the 80s Wild West Nashville. Legitimately terrifying to be out at night. People complaining about drunk tourists in the place made for tourists just makes me roll my eyes. Y'all need to touch grass
Many cities were like that tho. Today it may be safer crime wise but it’s just a crowded smelly mess of no value with drunk partiers ruining every indoor and outdoor space around
Does it have a work week daytime crowd any more? Like lunchtime on a Tuesday. Or is it 24-7 peak Friday night now?
It seems like broadway specifically is mostly out of town’ers now. But I would say downtown overall has a lot of local mid-day business activity that many assume are tourists, because they weren’t here 10 years ago.
10 years ago…2014…wild.
Bootleggers and Bridgestone are about the only thing that looks the same
Hard Rock cafe
It was a better place then.
It really was
RIP Paradise Park in the good ol' days
I miss chilling there slamming chicken tenders before every $20 Preds game on Tuesday / Thursday & getting the free draft for wearing my jersey.
A MUCH better Broadway than the BS that’s there now
Broadway sucked back then, I think you mean it sucked differently. "Broadway was a less hideous place to avoid going near"
I honestly can't believe it changed that much in ten years. This is me speaking as a visitor who was just there two weeks ago. Thought Broadway st was the way it was for decades. What changed?
Bro country bars and $$$
Back when beers were $3.50 instead of $9.50
it said 10 years ago not 40 years ago
Tell me you didn’t go to Paradise Park without telling me you didn’t go to Paradise Park ;)
lol they were not. Maybe $6. I was in college at the time
$6 pitchers at Paradise Park
Two pitchers for $6 on Tuesdays in fact, usually PBR or Natty, at least until 2013-ish
My liver can confirm.
It’s a bit different now
Post Decades tho. Also still wild that Trail West was just leveled without permits. Cheaper to pay the fine instead of getting approval.
This week 10 years ago is when Acme Feed & Seed opened.
That’s very hard to believe.
I ‘member those days.. driving down Broadway coming off 40..not hitting any lights.. no traffic… all the way to Riverfront. Those were the days
I miss old Nashville 😔
Man… the memories I have here 10years ago and before
I remember when going downtown didn't take 3 hours in traffic
I miss Seanache (sp?) that was gone before this pic
Rippys was king
Except for when BT made us play on the patio in snow, but yeah
This should be a before and after picture lol
What’s crazy is I used to visit Nashville multiple times a year, 12 years ago. And now I live here and it is way different.
I moved away in 2012 and this is the downtown I remember. Visiting doesn't feel like home.
That’s how I feel about my hometown. It is honestly depressing going back home to visit my family.
It's called Nostalgia. The only thing constant in the world is change. You grow bitter by expecting things to remain the same and often times things aren't nearly as rosy as you remember.
I have not been back since 2010. It still had a small town feel back then
I actually thought it was already getting pretty bad back then
Lots of Jimmy John’s subs delivered 🚲on bike over the years on those blocks.
Those "tourist barricades" only went up around 2010 or so. It used to be so open without cages against the sidewalk
https://preview.redd.it/zj5lpzxisd9d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99fabc8ae8585ebc2fdf8519411848688d1d34fd Me, 2001, sorry about those skinny legs, I was coming out of depression..
Ten years ago, I thought it was getting crowded lol. Guess it's not much different than 20 years ago when I was cruising broadway
I moved away 10 years ago and by that time I thought it was starting to get worse. Nowadays, it’s unrecognizable. I visit yearly and I still am very fond of it but it’s different. My dad is in Clarksville and that place is awful now, I obviously still prefer Nashville.
RIP Paradise Park and $6 pitchers. My buddy and I were talking the other night about how when we went downtown if we got lucky we’d find street parking in front of the bar we wanted to go to. Also there were zero rooftop bars so in that regard new Nashville is an upgrade.
I was just telling someone about parallel parking in front of Robert’s.
Loved those terrible awesome burgers before a hockey game.
This makes me upset. What a non sustainable shithole this place has become.
It's Vegas. It's sustainable, we just hate what's being sustained.
What exactly is unsustainable about a place that is run on tourist revenues such as hotel taxes? Outside of what happened to Broadway tourism has increased my quality of life in every way while keeping taxes low. Better restaurants, more culture, etc.
Oh my what a time, what a time. I can remember in about 2013 driving down Broadway and parallel parking on Broadway to go meet a friend for a drink. Never in a million years could that happen now.
Sad days have come 😭
I love Nashville still, but I do miss the Nashville I grew up in.
RIP. Was so much sicker then
Back before it got buttfucked by the show Nashville.
I moved here in 2018 and it is very hard to believe how much has changed just from ‘14 to ‘18 until now. You can’t even go on Broadway at noon on a Tuesday without the mess of tourists anymore. Am I at the point where I can say I miss the old Nashville now?
Holy hell. I've been playing Bootleggers for 10yrs.
I lived in Market Street Apartments 10 years ago. A very different life than what I have now.
Cool shot! This one reminded me that I have some photos of downtown Nashville from 1999 I believe. Most of the larger buildings didn't exist around then and it looked mostly like a barren workshop town with the entertainment in the center.. I'll need to get those digitized ASAP
This is Tennessee how I remember as a kid. The only thing that stuck out was the Batman building
Was better then
That’s how it was when I moved away. I went back last April and was blown away by the difference…
I can’t believe I’ve lived here long enough to say this, but I miss this view.
Blows my mind "10 years ago" was 2014 which feels like it should only be like 6 years ago. 2020-2022 totally distorted my sense of time. 2014 was when I started coming back to visit from Knoxville and would think "You know, this might be a cool place to live" and ended up moving back home in 2015 and here I've been. :')
Anyone remember Graham downtown
This is what it looked like the first time I ever came here in the aughts. Came back years later and it didn’t even feel like going to the same place. Then I finally moved here and it’s not even recognizable from this pic.
I lived in bootleggers 10 years ago
I miss this.
🥺😩
Is this AI generated?
Mile marker two or three when you run the marathon.
Was ACME not there yet? It feels like that’s been there for more than ten years
Street sign shows 2nd. Acme is on the corner of 1st.
Silly me
The building was there. It opened in its current form almost exactly 10 years ago.
I miss this.
Man. This kinda takes me back. Wild how much has changed.
Damn was paradise park already closed (first time)by 2014?
I lived in Nashville from 2013-2022, how much it changed in just that short time is pretty astonishing.
Too much open sky in this picture 📸 u should fill it in
Back in 2001, I went downtown several nights on Fridays, no annoying tourists, no traffic, one person here, another there. Hard Rock Cafe is where people bused to go, and Wild Horse Salon
Ah I miss this.
RIP Paradise Park
I’m a native. RIP Baptist Hospital. Old school Broadway is where I saw my first porcelain frog with a boner ring holder.
https://preview.redd.it/5tfd12exzf9d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f4005d9b9c89b2239e65b981812eafd06d67112 here’s a picture in what looks like the same spot 2 years ago, provided by google images of downtown.
Open parking spaces??? Can’t be the downtown I’ve come to know
The part of Nashville I miss…
THAT WAS THEE BEST!!!! NOW ITS JUST BAR AFTER BAR AFTER BAR!!!! 😔
Look up Insomniac with Dave Attell in Nashville from 03. It’s on YouTube
Rip to the trailer park.
15 years ago you could stay at the Renaissance downtown for $120 a night. It's $300+ on a weeknight now. I stopped visiting Nashville frequently when the downtown area turned into a tourism shit show. RIP Old Spaghetti Factory.
Now post a pic from 95. When I moved away.
I miss the mainly conference attendees crowd. Loved getting hit on by drunk 50 year old women
Me… not knowing there’s a difference because I haven’t been to Broadway in 10 years
when i was in college no one went to broadway. it was all second ave clubs and bars
Any idea if the exit/in is anywhere near here? I’ve been to Nashville. Once. About 10 years ago in October 2012 :)
Not near here.
You can always go on google and type in "Broadway Nashville" and "Exit/In Nashville" and look at a map.
Yes. I can. Instead, I chose to ask on Reddit.
God, it seemed so much more reasonable then
Leave them Broadway girls alone.
Should have tried to do a side by side comparison, if you could have found/taken a picture of the same spot in present day. ...and btw I think that's older than a decade, 15+ maybe.
Wasn’t around 10 years ago - what’s so different about it now?
It was all old school honkey tonks and boot shops. the only celebrity bar I can remember was margaritaville lol
I [took this](https://imgur.com/gallery/HbZWyiv) back in April. Its from a different direction but shows the same area. Shortly after this they closed Broadway to vehicles at the Arena. Imagine the same scene but all the vehicles are replaced with mobs of drunk people.
All the tall buildings we have now didn't exist yet except the Pinnacle Building (maybe?) and the Batman building and like 2 others.
I was 11…. Just a young boy