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| 176 Second Avenue North, 2019 |
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| 176 Second Avenue North, 2022 |
On Christmas Day 2020 a mad bomber set off an explosion on Second Avenue North in Nashville right in front of where the Take One offices once stood. I remember following news reports on my phone that day from my mother-in-law's house, shocked that it had happened, and that it had happened in an area where I had so many great memories. New reports talk a lot about the bomber choosing the spot because of the AT&T facility on the other side of the street, but he may have well planned on taking out Take One's history as well...
During the Bell South strike in 1978, we allowed telephone workers to sit and picket on the sidewalk in front of the office; they used our bathroom, and a few Bell engineers even fixed up and improved our makeshift phone system. Thankfully, nobody was hurt in the Christmas bombing and, yes, Take One magazine was long gone by 2020. Looking at the top photo here, from 2019, you see the building's facade pretty much as it was back in 1977-78...a little shinier, perhaps, and better-dressed than in our day when the building owner was trying to put together cash for a rehab. The second photo, however, from 2022, shows the total destruction of the building that one housed Nashville's first alternative publication (as well as 176 Underground, a cool 1980s-era club that I frequented).
