Theater
EXIT/IN
Storied nightclub on a historic Elliston Place strip, packed nightly since the early nineteen seventies.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Exit In on Elliston Place centers on the club's earliest years under founders Owsley Manier and Brugh Reynolds, who opened it in nineteen seventy-one on a shoestring budget. It follows what happened when the room became one of Nashville's busiest stages yet still could not cover its bills, pulling a third partner, Liz Thiels, and a Nashville court into the story. You will hear how the two founders tried to keep the doors open with their own labor rather than walk away. Stand at the entrance on Elliston Place to picture the sidewalk crowds this same building once drew.
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