Sun
Oct 15 2006
11:12 am
Foothills Fall Festival
By: R. Neal

It's a beautiful day and there's still time to make it out to downtown Maryville for the Foothills Fall Festival. There are plenty of arts and crafts, food, music, and fun for all ages.

We went over yesterday afternoon for a stroll around the arts and crafts booths. This is a fairly high quality show with lots of nice pottery, weavings, paintings, photography, and more, an not much of the flea market buy/sell junk.

We checked out the new Capitol Theater, which has been transformed into a coffee shop and art gallery featuring owner Heath Claiborne's paintings. The theater shows an occasional film, and is available for private functions. Roy's Records is also open for one last time, and it was the first time I've been in there since I was a teenager. It's like a museum in there. In fact, they ought to leave everything just like it is and make it a museum.

In addition to the arts and crafts and the food court on Broadway, there is a kid's fun zone setup over in the greenbelt park between Harper St. and the library, and a concert stage setup over behind the courthouse. We thought about going Friday night to see Buddy Guy, but it was too cold and the tickets weren't cheap. This evening's headliners are Little Big Town and Randy Travis.

More pictures after the jump...


Good turnout on a beautiful day.


Food court and arts/craft booths in parking lot on Broadway across from Sullivans and the Palace Theater.


Patrons admiring some excellent photography.


Pistol Creek Catch of the Day performs bluegrass


License plate sculptures


The Capitol Theater's new marquee


Tea room and art gallery in the Capitol Theater lobby


Coffee and pastries shop plus candy store at the Capitol Theater


If you are looking for old 45s, Roy's Records is the place


1968 front page ad for Roy's Records in the Maryville Shopper.
"We are Dolly Parton fans!" it says. (The "Shopper" was published
by Brazos Printing, Inc. a/k/a Brazos Press. Anybody know anything
about them?)


They are also Elvis fans at Roy's!

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Stacey's picture

Maryville

Submitted by Stacey (not verified) on Sun, 2006/10/15 - 1:40pm.

really like the new Capital Theatre coffee shop. I've noticed Roy's has been open a few hours a week since his announced retirement about this time last year. Stacey

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Best of luck to the Capital

Submitted by Les Jones on Mon, 2006/10/16 - 8:02pm.

Best of luck to the Capital Theater coffee shop. The last two downtown coffee shops (Jazzberry General and Palace Cafe) didn't make it. I hope they've figured out the magic formula.

Hey, Les, why don't we just call each other assholes and get it over with. - Somebody on the old Southknoxbubba.net (if that was you, claim your quote and win net.fame!)

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More Maryville jibber

Submitted by S Carpenter on Mon, 2006/10/16 - 9:46pm.

 

R Neal asked about the Brazos Press in the Dolly PParton caption: At first I thought of the Maryville Enterprise. My memory must be wrong though. Everything googlenoted is local, history, & single volume books.

Thanks for the downtown Maryville report and photos. My father was an usher at the Capitol so he's mentioned the rehab recently. And I see the steps to the balcony are intact. I saw Blackula from up there  (10 years old).

What's the Capitol auditorium look like?

 

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SC, they had the

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2006/10/17 - 9:06am.

SC, they had the theater/auditorium closed up and roped off, and the balconies, so we didn't get to see that. They did a really nice job on everything else, though.

P.S. That stuff googled from the UT library about the White Caps was pretty wild. And fascinating.

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Brazos Press

Submitted by Bill C (not verified) on Sat, 2006/11/04 - 10:05am.

Hey, thanks for running the picture of us (Pistol Creek Catch of the Day) and for getting our name right, which makes you kind of unique among the local Fifth Estate.

Brazos Press was a print shop out on New Walland Highway (a flat-topped building near Heritage High). It was run by Mrs. Marion Mangrum, who published the Maryville Enterprise. The Enterprise was a weekly tabloid that found most of its revenue in legal ads. It ran a few politcal columns including some memorable John Birch Society screeds by a Pigeon Forgian named Tom Anderson. I'd like to see inside that building now; in the late 70s it was incredibly crammed with old print equipment and other clutter. I think by then they were offset.

She had a calendar in the shop, I think from 1962 or 63, with a similar picture of Dolly on it. Even then it must have been pretty clear that Dolly was going places.

BC

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