More Take One Advertisers

 

More invaluable Take One magazine advertisers! The Villager, a bar in Hillsboro Village, was a favorite hangout of mine during my senior year of high school and afterwards. WKDF-FM was an early supporter of the zine, and this is their ad for the 1979 "One For The Sun" concert they co-promoted. Finally, The Great Escape, which came on board as an advertiser early, after they'd moved from a small house on Division to the much-larger location on Broadway that they subsequently spent decades in. I met Gary Walker, The Great Escape owner, when he was selling comics at the flea market every month at the Fairgrounds. I was an early customer at their Division store, and even worked for the company as a computer consultant, installing their first computer system and training staff members in its usage. Gary's son Greg became a good friend, and he contributed to my The Other Side of Nashville book. Thanx to all these folks for their support!

Take One Advertisers

We didn't have a heck of a lot of advertisers back in the Take One days, but a handful of companies were faithful from the first day, running regular ads and paying on time (important for a struggling publication!). Nashville attorney Bart Durham was one such advertiser, who came on board with the third or fourth issue...I remember ol' Bart cruising up to our Second Avenue office in his convertible sports car with payment for his ads. As regular as clockwork, he was...local printer Copies Unlimited was another regular advertiser; I worked there for about three days sometime in the 1980s. For my money, though, our two longest-running and most avid supporters were Mary Jane's on Elliston Place, and New Life Record shop on Charlotte in West Nashville. New Life's Lee Lane even contributed cartoons to the publication in later days. Thanx to both for their invaluable support!