We had to visit the Antique Archaeology again which is owned by Mike Wolfe from series called, The Pickers. (They have another store in Iowa but Mike, his wife and daughter live in Nashville so he opened a store there.) We watch The Pickers all the time and love how they find all the antique items. The stories they tell on the series are funny and interesting. The store is inside the Marathon Village, Marathon Village. The Marathon Automobile Building which originally housed the Marathon Motor Works in 1906. Great way to re-use the building.
Off to Broadway where all the honky tonks are. As you walk down the street, all you hear are performances from every bar and grill. There are no cover charges to any of the bars.
We had lunch at Luke’s with his special drinks and their Kettle Chips. The Kettle Chips were yummy and included smoked pulled pork, bacon, cheddar, queso, BBQ sauce, pickles and chives. Mike’s drink (left) is called Play it Again and includes maker’s mark, peach schnapps, sweet and sour and Sprint Splash. Lorraine is drinking The Country Girl with rum, amaretto, vodka, pineapple juice and grenadine.
Then off to the Ryman. Ryman Auditorium (formerly Grand Ole Opry House and Union Gospel Tabernacle) is a 2,362-seat live performance venue located at 116 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee. It is best known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974. First, we snuck up into the parking lot (even though there was a no entry sign) and this wonderful Guard let us get out real quick and take pictures. It is hard to find a parking place round the Ryman so we were very lucky.
Grande Ole Opry
Visited the Parthenon. The Parthenon stands proudly as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, Nashville’s premier urban park. The re-creation of the 42-foot statue Athena is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece. The building and the Athena statue are both full-scale replicas of the Athenian originals.
Originally built for Tennessee’s 1897 Centennial Exposition, this replica of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture.
Around the Parthenon were several memorials
