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Otey's Center (Nashville, Tenn.)

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A calendar from 1964 advertising Otey's Center, which included a supermarket, launderette, shoe shop, and a realty company. Flem B. Otey headed the Otey Enterprises firm which was comprised of the various operations highlighted on the calendar. Located at 1801 Jefferson Street, Otey's Grocery was the first African American-owned grocery firm in Nashville. Originally, a small business known as Green's Grocery occupied the Jefferson site. Otey assumed direction of this small store and developed the business into the large Cee-Bee affiliate, Otey's Grocery. Photos of Green's Grocery are also shown on the calendar. Forms part of the Businesses Ephemera Subject Files. 1 calendar : col. ; 14 x 10.75 in.
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Still Image Ephemera Calendars
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Keywords

  1. Advertising
  2. African American Business Enterprises
  3. African Americans
  4. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  5. Business
  6. Business Districts
  7. Business Enterprises
  8. Businesspeople
  9. Calendars
  10. Capital City
  11. Central Business Districts
  12. Commerce
  13. Downtown Nashville
  14. Eighteenth Avenue (Nashville, Tenn.)
  15. Enterprise
  16. Food
  17. Green's Grocery (Nashville, Tenn.)
  18. Green, I.E., 1880 1894
  19. Grocery Shopping
  20. Grocery Trade
  21. History
  22. Industries
  23. Jefferson Street (Nashville, Tenn.)
  24. Nashville
  25. Nashville (Tenn.)
  26. Otey's Center (Nashville, Tenn.)
  27. Otey's Quality Grocery (Nashville, Tenn.)
  28. Otey, Flem B., 1903 1963
  29. Real Estate Business
  30. Real Property
  31. Self Service Laundries
  32. Shopping
  33. Social Life And Customs
  34. Sources
  35. Supermarkets
  36. Tennessee

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