Day 24: More Tennessee – mostly Nashville

Let’s start with this Buffalo herd in Nashville:

Some giant roses – also in Nashville:

This Minnie Pearl sculpture is in Centerville (her birthplace):

This Tennessee Triumph Women’s Suffrage Monument is in Nashville. The state of Tennessee cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote:

This ice cream stand/restaurant is in Nashville:

This former Red Barn restaurant is in Nashville:

It would have looked like this originally:

The Pagoda of Medicine in Nashville was built in 1963. It was abandoned, in bad shape, and then demolished in 2021. It was reconstructed around 2024:

This sign in Centerville is installed above the long-closed Tiller Furniture store:

This sign in Bon Aqua is installed outside the shop that was previously located in Nashville:

Their other sign was restored and now hangs inside. Unfortunately, I was there on a weekend on this trip and didn’t get to see it in person. But here’s a photo from their website:

This is the backside of the former scoreboard for the Nashville Sounds minor league baseball team — in Nashville:

This restaurant opened in Nashville in 2025 and this modern sign was installed then:

There is a similar modern sign at the chain’s Atlanta location [photo snipped from Eater:
https://atlanta.eater.com/2019/3/20/18274312/little-rey-opening-piedmont-heights-atlanta

This former feed store and hatchery in Dickson became a musical venue in 1988 and this sign was built:

One more modern sign — this one in Nashville. A former motel, later apartments, and now converted into “vacation rentals”:

This sign is in Nashville — the business is still operating:

The Riverside Liquor store in Nashville:

Another one from Nashville. Unfortunately, the neon was replaced with squiggly LED tubing recently:

Although this place closed long ago, this sign in Centerville remains:

Another one from Nashville:

Sadly, the little neon arrow on the EAT panel is gone now — from my 2007 photo:

From the restaurant/liquor store’s website, there was once a much larger sign — and the sign above can be seen in the background. It looks like it did not have the “Fine Foods” or “EAT” panels originally:

The Key Motel in Nashville opened in 1956. This postcard shows the sign’s original colors and the bottom panel read “Coffee Shop”:

My photo from 2007:

In 2018, the property was developed as the Dive Motel and Swim Club with retro-themed rooms. The sign was repainted with this fake weathered look:

The James K. Polk Motel was originally in Columbia, TN. It closed in 2014 and was demolished. The motel had two signs — my photos from 2007 are below. The top “Polk” panel was restored and is now in the Columbia Welcome Center. The “MOTEL” panel remains standing on the vacant lot: