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    • Mar 19, 1932
    WLS Radio's "National Barn Dance" moves to Chicago's Eighth Street Theater, a venue it will call home for the next 25 years
    Dec 27, 1932
    Radio City Music Hall opens in New York. The venue attracts scores of country performers, including Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Little Texas, Travis Tritt, Clint Black and Wynonna Judd, among others
    Mar 18, 1933
    Facing hard times, Jimmie Rodgers sells his Kerrville, Texas, home--nicknamed Blue Yodeler's Paradise--for $9,100, less than half of its original price
    Apr 1, 1933
    WWVA Radio's "Jamboree" moves to the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling, West Virginia. Just three months old, the show runs more than 70 years, influencing the careers of Grandpa Jones, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Brad Paisley
    Oct 27, 1934
    The Grand Ole Opry moves from WSM's Studio C to the Hillsboro Theater in Nashville
    Jun 13, 1936
    The Dixie Tabernacle becomes the home of the Grand Ole Opry, seating 3,500. The Opry remains there for the next three years. Pee Wee King and Roy Acuff both make their first Opry appearances at the venue
    Nov 22, 1942
    Government workers begin arriving in East Tennessee, forming the town of Oak Ridge. Important in the development of the atomic bomb, the city also provides a name for The Georgia Clodhoppers, a gospel quartet destined to be rebranded as The Oak Ridge Boys
    Mar 4, 1943
    Bill and Carolyn Monroe buy a 44-acre farm on Dickerson Road in Nashville for the sum of $11,000
    Jun 5, 1943
    The Grand Ole Opry begins airing from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, which becomes the radio show's home until 1974
    Aug 18, 1945
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon Presley, makes a down payment of $200 for a home in East Tupelo, Mississippi



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