Broadway

Broadway is, arguably, the central vein of old Knoxville. It starts downtown and snakes north, passing my Fountain City home along the way. Today I started a project on Broadway that I've been thinking about for a while. Mostly documentation, nothing fancy. The thing I've learned about projects is that the hardest part is starting. So here's my start.


This is Fast Eddie. He owns, coincidently, Fast Eddie's Auto Part in Fountain City. Both the 'Fart Machine' muffler and Pet Rock, below, are his. Funny story aboout the Pet Rock. It sits across the street from his store, probably 100 feet. When Eddie was building the store in 1983 he had to blast out the hill to make room. He and his friends, who may have been drinking Eddie admits, put a little too much powder in the blasting holes and blew the Pet Rock to its current home across the street. Smaller pieces of stone flew across Broadway, another 200 feet or so, where they blocked the passage of cars until the city came to sweep up.