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Knox Motel
Knoxville, Tennessee – Then and Now
Knox Motel – 7 miles north on Highway 25W
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One of two great signs! Notice on the left you can just see another building. It turns out to be the Clark Motel.
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Here it is today. The signs are both gone. It is still renting rooms though.
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You can see the tree tops behind the motel and know it’s early Spring. Gray skies. No one is going in that pool!
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Notice the “TV” tower back there…
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Is this it on the Clark next door?
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Looks like more gals by the pool. Someone had some daughters, or good friends, or…
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Here you see the little building where the sign was and the left of the courtyard.
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This was where the old building and sign was I guess.
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More of the Clark next door. Notice the neon arrow on the side that used to “point” by crunching and growing. The last time I was there at night (maybe 1990) the neon on the TV was still barely working. I wonder if it is today.
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Well, here it is in a later card with the TV tower and no awning.
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Here is a later one with the awning and the tower. Those trees got a lot bigger!
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And two earlier cards with no tower. I vote that it was from the Knox Motel.
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The motel.
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An old sign next door.