Broadway Then and Now
From the bars where everybody knows your name to the performers who keep them rocking, the past is still present on Nashville’s famed honky tonk row.
Flip through the pages of Bill Rouda’s photography book capturing black-and-white scenes from Lower Broadway in the 1990s, and you’d swear the rapture had just happened. Even photos from New Year’s Eve look barren – a night no sane modern-day Nashvillian would dare wander downtown due to crowds.
But this book, documents the beginning of a downtown renaissance. The Ryman had just reopened and missed the whiff of a wrecking ball. The Stage was still an Adult World. And Robert’s had carpet for
