Restock and a Theater Organ (1/6/24)

Bob’s winter coat died (zipper became nonfunctional) shortly before we left Atlanta, and his raincoat has been shedding its internal lining for quite awhile. We thought we might stop for a shop on our way into Knoxville yesterday, but we decided a Monday might be a quieter day for the stores.

Anyhoo, today saw us hitting the stores, with Bob getting 2 new coats at great prices. It’s rare to get Bob out to shop, so I’m super glad he had an easy time of it.

After we returned to our room, we quickly headed to the Tennessee Theater just around the corner on Gay Street that we had seen from the outside yesterday.

We looked up the theater last night because we saw that it was showing the musical, “Shucked,” which we had just heard about for the first time during our tour of the Fox Theater in Atlanta. It peaked our interest since it’s about corn, which is what Bob’s home state of Iowa is mostly known for.

Unfortunately, last night was the last showing of Shucked, but we noticed that today at noon the theater’s organist would be doing a free noon performance on the theater’s Wurlitzer organ. We decided that sounded interesting and would also be a great way to see the theater and the organ. We loved both and were entertained with a mix of holiday songs and show tunes.

Some quick facts about the Tennessee Theater. Built in 1928, the Tennessee Theater is the official state theater of Tennessee. Like the Fox Theatre that we toured in Atlanta, it was originally built to be a movie house. It currently has a capacity of 1,645 (versus 4,665 for the Fox, not that it’s a competition.). They were both built the same year and both have impressive organs 😜😂.