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Posted on 09-22-2007 at 08:20am
Nashville’s biggest marquee
Filed Under (Neighborhoods, History) by John Carney on 09-22-2007

I noticed last night that the Tennessean was asking for opinions about reviving the illuminated messages that used to appear on the Tennessee Tower back when it was the NLT building. ThinkTrain noticed, too, and looks at the issue with both nostalgia and responsibility:

I would like to see the state consider alternatives for using the Tennessee Tower as a message board that use less energy than in the past.

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Comments

hollyw on 22 September, 2007 at 8:27 am #

I’m SO there. That was one of the surefire signs of Christmas for me when I was a little kid and we drove to Nashville to visit my grandparents.


John Hutcheson on 22 September, 2007 at 1:06 pm #

I still get the giggles when I think of my former councilperson (thank God for the ‘former’ part), Ludye ‘Cris’ Wallace proposal to have the state display the temperature in lights on that building. I’m pretty sure he was serious…