FFQing in Nashville: From Cupcakes to Stanley Cup?
This fun photo romp around Nashville is meant to give you a quick introduction to what we saw and recently experienced both on and off the beaten path in Nashville. Future blogs will look at Nashville unique sense of place in more detail. This is just a teaser!
Yes, in Nashville you can purchase cupcakes from a vintage ATM machine.
Forget hood ornaments, in Nashville you need roof ornaments like this one.
I couldn't resist Holler & Dash's biscuit with peanut butter mousse, bacon, popcorn, bananas and maple syrup.
Found this sculpture made entirely of crayons, the gallery was full of fun, colourful crayon sculpture
This little girl's Dad convinced me to get the cherry dipped cone - big mistake, the sprinkles cone was the way to go.
Nashville has some quirky mailboxes in its established neighbourhoods.
Can paying for parking be a happy experience?
Vintage is always fun! Pre to Post Modern store on 8th Ave was too much fun!
The last thing I was expecting when I went into the Savant vintage store on 12 South was this stuffed wild boar. There was also an albino deer, caribou, skunk and bear.
Stix is 70’ tall and made of 27 wooden poles. The poles are spaced in an irregular pattern throughout the surface area of the roundabout and the verticality of the poles varies between 0º - 15º from the center axis. The poles are made of red cedar and are painted in stripes of various heights in four different colors: red, orange, light blue, dark blue, and light green. Fifteen up-lights are embedded into the landscaping to light up the sculpture at night, which results in a vibrant display of color, light and shadow.
What is fun to me is that the artist Christian Moeller proposed a very similar piece for the Crowfoot LRT Station. I was my first choice but I was over ruled by the other jury members who liked "Roger That."
Gotta love quirky signage.
The GooGoo Cluster is an American candy bar created in 1912 by Howell Campbell and the Standard Candy Company in Nashville. The original disk-shaped candy bar contained marshmellow, nougat, carmel and roasted peanuts covered in milk chocolate. And, yes it was marketed as nourishing lunch treat.
While flaneuring Belmont University campus we decided to check out the Art School when we encountered two students hauling out stacks of artworks to their car. We asked what they were doing and were told recycling the canvases and stretchers for reuse. We asked if we could have a look and eventually purchased these two.
This was Brenda's choice.
After purchasing our new artwork we immediately stumbled upon a noon hour steel drum concert that also featured a dancer. It all took place in a lovely plaza with a canopy of trees that filtered the light in a magical manner.
The Eskimo Brothers were having just too much fun at Layla's on Lower Broadway.
Not sure what these gadgets are, found them in a guitar store...but they struck me as fun, funky and quirky aliens.
8th Ave S is Nashville's Antique vintage district, lots of good ffqing here.
In fact I found this juxtaposition of Christ and Superman in the Tennessee Antique Mall - very quirky.
I loved that the theme of the children's library in the Nashville's Central Library was Nashville's iconic architecture.
One of many interesting artworks found in 21c Museum Hotel which was hosting a very thought provoking exhibition titled "Truth or Dare: A Reality Show." This exhibition would be appropriate for any major contemporary art museum, to have it hosted in a hotel was very quirky to me.
Quirky front yard art?
Quirky artwork found in the Union Station Hotel lobby.
Found this baby doll buried in a huge bin of shoes at the local Goodwill Store. Seemed quirky to me?
Fun little park incorporates folk art figures with bike rim sun screen.
You can hear them before you see them. These party bikes are popular with the dozens of bachelorette parties that invade downtown Nashville every weekend.
What were they thinking?
I expected to see lots of different guitars in Nashville, but never expected anything like this.
Last Word
Not sure what it is but some cities are just more fun, funky and quirky than others. I am thinking I should create criteria for a FFQ Index as another measurement of a city's vitality.
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