Blog Archive

Elvis makes his one and only appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. He is reportedly encouraged to go back to driving a truck.

Opryland USA closes its doors

Opryland USA theme park opens

Opryland Hotel opens with 580 guest rooms. It will grow to it’s current size of 2,888 rooms.

13-19 inches of rain causes Nashville to flood. $2.3 billion in damages. 31 dead in TN, KY and MS.

‘First citizen of Nashville, French-Canadian fur trader Timothy Demonbreun begins visits to Nashville.

Harold & Owen Bradley open ‘Bradley Studios’. It will be known as ‘The Quonset Hut’. The first recording in the studio was Gene Vincent’s ‘Be-Bop-a-Lula’. The actual Quonset Hut was added in 1955.

Studio B opens in November. First recordings are by the Everly Brothers.

Bicentennial Mall Dedicated

Nashborough was changed to ‘Nashville’. Probably to remove associations with Britain.