Shamefully, I am on my first run of the trip. 2.5 miles from downtown is the Tennessee Parthenon. It is a replica of the original built for Tennessee's first centennial. It sits in a park surrounded offices and industry - very much a regular city feel but the mammoth Parthenon seems oddly out of place.
Just a few blocks from here is Vanderbuilt University, a beautiful campus. Well I'm off back to downtown to clean up and check out. Charlotte tonight.
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That Parthenon is cool. It was made out of a very primitive form of styrofoam (the 1903 version or something). It was only supposed to last for a few months, but it surprised them and with a few fixes, has stood for a century! Good stuff! One of the rare instances of something being better than expected. Too lazy to fact check with Wikipedia, so my apologies if any of that is wrong.
ReplyDeleteHow come you are at 2.5 miles? Did you reset the odometer accidentally? LMAO! Going to Graceland at all? The BlueBird?
I'm wrong. I did recheck with wiki, and that Parthenon was built in styro in 1897, was incredibly popular, but had to be rebuilt in 1921-1931 in concrete.
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