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It’s always interesting to look at scenes from the past and then to compare that view to the current one. Sometimes there’s not a lot of difference in a building’s appearance over several years or even decades. Once instance of that appears here in Fred Kite’s 1989 photo of East End Grocery, which is now Electric Smoke. The same address, by the way, was listed in the 1949 telephone book as Lamborn’s East End Grocery.

The former service station building that replaced the King Hotel at the corner of Atlantic and E. Lincoln still carries some of its same look from the 1960s. In looking at a current photo of the South Jackson Performing Arts Center compared to a 1940s postcard of the front of the building when it was a school, it’s difficult to tell which is which!

In addition to these weekly articles, I’m working on a pictorial book on Tullahoma history with Arcadia Publishing. Do you have stories and photos of old Tullahoma businesses or events that you would share? You can contact me at alanmayes@lighttube.net.