Bacon, sausage or turkey sausage, home fries or cheese grits, toast or biscuit.
SINCE 1939
1939
Lynn Chandler, 23 years old, buys the soda fountain of Elliston Pharmacy. A chocolate soda costs a nickel.
The Rock Block years
The block fills with music clubs — the Exit/In opens down the street — and the soda shop feeds all of them.
2019
After 80 years, the shop announces it will close. Nashville says no.
2021
Tony and Lisa Giarratana reopen it two doors down, twice the room, restored to its 1930s self — Wurlitzer, red stools and all. The longest-running restaurant in Nashville keeps running.
