We wake up this morning in Nashville! First things first, we need to do some laundry so we head to the Soap Opry Laundry nearby - great WIFI and washers so we get the job done. The RV site is ok, close to downtown and inexpensive but no frills for sure. The manager helped us back into our narrow spot between deep ditches yesterday though which was VERY helpful! We finally make it downtown around 3:00, find a decent parking spot and walk to the Johnny Cash museum.
The museum chronicles Johnny Cash's life from the time he was a child picking cotton on his family's 20 acre farm, through his air force years, early entry into music, challenges with addiction, TV weekly variety show, cameos in other TV shows and films, to philanthropic activities. He really had an amazing life! The museum has lots of memorabilia, recordings and videos.
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| How cotton was picked (by hand) when Cash was young |
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| One of the video displays |
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| Johnny Cash and second wife June Carter with president |
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| Crazy dress! |
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| Carter sister dresses and Cash's suit |
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| Concert posters |
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| Johnny Cash was main actor (villain) in this film! |
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| Many recording awards |
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| 1951 film that in part inspired Cash's Folsom Prison song |
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| One of his guitars |
After visiting the Cash museum we walk to the main drag of Nashville, Broadway street. This street is lined with multi-story buildings with live music playing on each floor up to the rooftop bars. All free, but you are expected to buy drinks. Beer, and bud light in particular, seems to be the beverage of choice. Likely because it cost around $4 per bottle in the bars vs. $10 for a tiny gin and tonic in a plastic cup. We enter a couple spots but the music is often really blaring and the clientele is mainly 20 and 30 somethings, including lots of bachelor and bachelorette parties.
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| Neon signs welcoming you in |
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| Multiple floors of drinking and live music |
Live bands everywhere, must be hundreds of them
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Famous Tootsies, 3+ live bands playing inside
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Inside Tootsies, packed
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| From top of Tootsie |
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| Unique buildings downtown |
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Just got word Julia accepted to SDSU! Sending her thumbs way UP! |
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| Neons at night |
Ended the evening at the downtown Siegenthaler pedestrian bridge.
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| Siegenthaler Pedestrian bridge |
What fun! That video where you walked down the street and went from one band to the next was amazing. I think we might like such a city :-) And big congrats to Julia! H&L
ReplyDeleteThanks...yes so much music. We thought about you too a lot. You would love this town!
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