Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
In a nation reinventing itself following victory in World War II, Nashville’s self-portrait blended old with new. New businesses and skyscrapers, a shopping mall, the Interstate system, school integration, and other changes would ultimately bring Nashville into line with the direction of the nation at large, but alongside nationwide trends were treasures unique to the city: Fair Park for thrill-seekers, Sulphur Dell for baseball fans, the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman for music, and the Maxwell House for visitors still arriving through Union Station and now from the air at Berry Field.
In this companion volume to Historic Photos of Nashville, Ashley Driggs Haugen leads a tour past many Nashville landmarks from the recent past, reminiscing with Nashvillians who can remember and informing those new to the city who may not. Nearly 200 images reproduced in vivid black-and-white show the Opry at the Ryman, construction of the L&C Tower, 100 Oaks Mall, the Municipal Auditorium, Harveys Department Store downtown, and countless other subjects from yesteryear that remain key to the city’s past and present.
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Book details
- Author
- Ashlyn Driggs Haugen
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Nashville history · Tennessee · black-and-white photography · American cities · mid-20th century · pictorial history · local history · country music heritage
- ISBN-13
- 9781684420933
About the authors
ASHLEY DRIGGS HAUGEN is a writer and editor whose career spans print and digital publishing across Nashville. She is the author of Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
Haugen served as managing editor of Nashville Parent, Williamson Parent, and Rutherford Parent magazines for Day Communications, then as founding Editor-in-Chief of Her Nashville, launched through SouthComm Communications. She later held roles as editorial director at StyleBlueprint and managing editor at Flywheel Publishing. She holds a B.S. in film and television from the College of Communication at Boston University.
Ashley lives in Nashville.
BOB GRANNIS was a Nashville-based photographer who began his career while serving in the Army in 1939 and chronicled the city for nearly six decades before retiring in 1997. His work supplied the images for Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
Grannis was widely known as "Nashville’s Largest Photographer." His archive, spanning the early 1940s through the late 1980s, includes images of the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville sports, weddings, and the city’s changing skyline, and is preserved by Grannis Photography in Nashville.