[Ads-l] Music Row, Music City (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Recently sent to Barry Popik  

> 
> Barry -- you recently posted about "Music Row" in NYC.  I grew up in Nashville, and the area around 16th Ave S has long been called "Music
> Row".  Here is a 1963 cite:
> 
> https://books.google.com/books?id=MQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22music+row%22+nashville#v=onepage&q=%22music%20row%22%
> 20nashville&f=false
> 
> 
> Nashville has long been known as "Music City USA".  Here is a 1962 cite:
> 
> https://books.google.com/books?id=9RcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT25&dq=%22music+city+usa%22+1962#v=onepage&q=%22music%20city%20us
> a%22%201962&f=false
> 
> www.newspapers.com has a 1957 cite:
> 19 Jul 1957 _Altoona [PA]  Tribune_ p 5 col 3 "He [Hankshaw Hawkins] makes his home in Music City, U. S. A., Nashville, Tenn., where he
> can be heard over WSM every Saturday night on the Grand Ol' Opry."
>
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