The downtown picture seems to have caught everyone's attention, and Kathey decided to go stand in traffic ( **grin**) and take a couple of more shots from roughly the same spot. (Thanks Kathey!) The time span between the top picture and the bottom two has to be close to 50 years. While they're not all from the same spot, it's close enough to show some major changes. First, the jail on the right is gone. I've always wondered if Doris gets sentimental when she drives past. :) Second, the store front on the left, that I used to know as Bowman & Porter's is markedly different. But, the biggest change is obviously the new bridge. The steel arch of the old bridge, that served as one of the landmarks of Loudon is gone, and you can see the dramatic angle the road takes now over the new, and surprisingly lower bridge. But why am I telling you guys this.... you live there. :)Remember when one of the tests of Driver's Ed was driving across that narrow old bridge? You prayed to high Heaven that there wasn't a diesel coming the other way when it was your turn to drive across.
The old bridge used to tell you that you were home when coming back from away games. It used to tell me I was home for years after I left. Even now, when I come back I get off I75 at Sugarlimb Road and take Highway 11 into town, and it still amazes me that I can get to Lenior City by going through Piney. :)
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