Nashville Secrets

Here are a few neat things you may not have known about Nashville...

10. The walmart on Nolensville Rd. in Nashville Tn is the only one to offer valet parking. According to the manager it's because the parking lot is built so unusual in order to preserve a creek in the area that many drivers found it hard to navigate, so wal-mart made the decision to offer valet. http://www.wkrn.com/global/story.asp?s=9198121 In Nashville you can also find valet at the majority of nicer grocery stores, gyms, malls and other retail establishments. What can I say, we Nashvillians are a lazy bunch.

9. Almost every musician worth his salt has recorded in Nashville. The list is so extensive it isnt even worth listing. Hell Jack White even has his own lablel down here. Nashville has the best recording studios in the world. Extreme time and care is put into creating perfect acoustics, allowing musicians to sound and preform better. Nashvillians are also a very laid back bunch and don't get overly excited when we see even the most famous of celebrities. No worry of paparazzi down here!!!

8. Speaking of paparazzi, many movie stars are moving down south too! We have tons of film stars that are slowly making nashville their home.Maybe it is due to our lack of a state income tax or our laissez-fair attitude toward celebrity. When you have actual debutantes who's family linage goes back pre-civil war..well down here-that trumps movie star any day. However if you are the kind to go "star gazing", here are a few places to hit while in town: Larry's off Murfreesboro Pike, the Bungnut Pig, Princes Chicken, Puckett's Grocery, Sambucko's , and anything in the trendy (but not to trendy) mid-town area. 

7. Tennessee is known as the Athens of the south and we have the exact replica of the Parthenon in Nashville to prove it. The nickname is due to the amazing amount of colleges and universities we have!.  The list is pretty long so I'm just going to let Wikipedia list them for me....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Tennessee

6. Jazz fan, well Nashville has quite the jazz history. Jefferson Street saw a jazz, blues and R&B music heyday during the 1940s through the 1960s. Greats like Duke Ellington, Ella  Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, Etta James and more played in numerous local clubs, such as The New Era Club, Del Morocco and Club Baron.

5. Vinyl Lovers Unite!!! United Record Pressing, a vinyl pressing plant in downtown Nashville, is one of only four remaining vinyl manufacturers in the nation. Operating since 1949, United has pressed millions of records.

4. Tennessee Whiskey has a really long tradition in Nashville!  During prohibition in the 1930s, many of the local printers established boot-legging in their basements located in downtown’s Printers Alley. When alcohol was legal once again, the bars simply remained there — and are still operational today.

3. We were music city before the recording studios... The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, boasts a driveway in the shape of a guitar. Legend says that the driveway was so shaped to please his daughter-in- law Emily. Nashvillians like to think it was a sign of good things to come ;)

2. Nashville native William Walker was the only American to become the president of another country. He became president of Nicaragua in 1856 and attempted to unite all of Central America into one country.

1. Nashvillians pride themselves on being..well Nashvillians. We talk about it all of the time. Statements of distaste and jokes are often made about Nashville imports. I'm a west Tennessean and I'll never quite be part of the "true Nashville crowd" and you can for-get-it if you are farther west than Memphis or more east than Chattanooga!

For your entertainment:
You are so Nashville if:
 http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/24th-annual-you-are-so-nashville-if/Content?oid=3464114

Shit people from Nashville don't say...
http://youtu.be/L5fST0RsLZQ

Dirty desperate to be seen hipsters!!!
 http://youtu.be/RQ6t83f8ay0

Why I'm secretly, apparently a gay southern man...who knew?
http://youtu.be/EuWgqRcEmcE