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Restless Native

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The Legend of Squeegee

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendApril 29, 2015leave a COMMENT

The top executive, sole employee, and chief window washer of the Kalijah Window Cleaning Service was a small-statured, big-voiced character who was known around town as Squeegee. His unofficial headquarters …

Doc and the Cowboy

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendApril 15, 2015leave a COMMENT

In the mid-1960s, I was neighbors with a University of Tennessee animal-science senior in a two-story building that had been built as a motel. It was on Laurel Avenue a …

Birth of a Burger Joint

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendMarch 25, 2015leave a COMMENT

I was introduced to Clarence Bunch shortly after I became an employee of the Knoxville Journal in 1965. The Journal had its own clippings library, files of newspaper stories from the …

Zoo Story: A Rather Unlikely Founding of the Knoxville Zoo

In Restless Native by Chris WohlwendMarch 11, 2015leave a COMMENT

Two of my uncles, with assistance from a couple of baby alligators, founded Knoxville’s zoo. At least, that’s the story my mother told me. But I don’t want to mislead—the …

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