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Elliston Place Soda Shop
Retro soda counter and diner serving milkshakes, meat-and-three plates, and decades of nostalgia.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Elliston Place Soda Shop in Nashville traces the story of Lynn Chandler, the twenty-three-year-old who talked a pharmacist into letting him run its soda counter alone in nineteen thirty-nine. It follows the shop across eight decades as one of the city's longest-running restaurants, through Chandler's self-styled reign as the king of the meat and three, and into the crisis that threatened to end it all in twenty nineteen. Listen at the counter for what a soda fountain built on one man's stubbornness looks like today.
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