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    • Sep 14, 1975
    The Tennessean runs its first ad featuring a company with a Music Square address. The Electric Chair, a hair and nail salon, is located at 50 Music Square West, formerly 900 17th Avenue South. The ad appears days after the dedication of Music Square Park in Nashville, with 16th and 17th Avenues given new Music Square street names
    Apr 15, 1977
    A school in Tulsa is renamed Roy Clark Elementary
    May 2, 1979
    The Tennessee legislature votes to name a stretch of U.S. Highway 441 in Sevier County Dolly Parton Parkway
    Aug 14, 1980
    A statue of Elvis Presley is unveiled in Memphis' Elvis Presley Plaza
    Sep 20, 1981
    Nashville mayor Richard Fulton announces that two blocks of Hawkins Street on Music Row will be renamed Roy Acuff Place during a roast of Acuff at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. On hand for the roast: Gene Autry and vice president George Bush
    Nov 9, 1981
    Two blocks of Hawkins Street on Music Row are renamed Roy Acuff Place
    Jan 9, 1982
    A five-mile stretch of Gallatin Road in Hendersonville, Tennessee, is renamed the Johnny Cash Parkway on a Saturday in sub-zero temperatures
    Mar 24, 1984
    Palm Springs, California, officially dedicates a new street, Gene Autry Trail
    Aug 4, 1984
    Meherrin, Virginia, dedicates a marker, designating the town as Roy Clark's birthplace
    Apr 4, 1986
    A stretch of U.S. 49E in Yazoo City, Mississippi, is renamed Jerry Clower Boulevard



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