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    • May 25, 1969
    Jimmy Dean opens a sausage plant in his hometown: Plainview, Texas
    May 26, 1969
    Country legend Gene Autry fires a baseball manager for the first time, giving Bill Rigney the boot after eight years as the skipper for Autry's California Angels
    Jul 4, 1969
    Red, white and gingham: Minnie Pearl fried chicken is served to servicemen and their wives at Dam Neck Naval Base in Virginia Beach
    Jul 31, 1969
    "There's a saucy delight in every bite": Hank Williams Jr.'s Barbecue Pit opens at 990 Murfreesboro Pike in Nashville. Bocephus greets patrons the first day. A barbecue sandwich is 50 cents, a soda costs 15 cents
    Sep 20, 1969
    The Tex Ritter Chuckwagon opens at 21st and West End Avenue in Nashville
    Sep 25, 1969
    A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held at Hank Williams Jr.'s Barbecue Pit at 115 Opry Place in downtown Nashville. It's Bocephus' second Pit, following on the heels of a restaurant at 990 Murfreesboro Road
    Feb 26, 1970
    Grand opening is held for Roger Miller's King of the Road Motor Inn at 211 N. First Street in Nashville, with Miller performing in a gray-and-pink pinstripe suit. Built for $2.75 million, it becomes the site where Ronnie Milsap is discovered
    Apr 25, 1970
    The third Loretta Lynn's Western Wear store in Nashville opens at 435 Donelson Pike
    Jul 27, 1970
    Minnie Pearl cuts the ribbon at Minnie Pearl's Country Dairy, a restaurant that serves burgers, shakes and ice cream. The business is located on Main Street in Nashville
    Nov 12, 1970
    The second Tex Ritter's Chuckwagon franchise opens at Harding Road in Nashville



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