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Oral history interview with Betty Chiles Nixon, 2007 June 19

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Excerpts from an interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon conducted on 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Nixon discusses Cross Keys Restaurant and its competitors; the decline of business in downtown Nashville; famous dishes served at Cross Keys Restaurant; steaks at Cross Keys; waitresses and food shortages at the restaurant; the soda fountain at Cross Keys Restaurant; her decision to run for Metro Council; economic development and social climate in Nashville; and lessons learned from growing up part of a family-owned business. The complete interview, as well as an index, is available in the Special Collections Division.
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Sound Oral Histories
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Arnaud's (Restaurant)
  3. B & W Cafeteria (Nashville, Tenn.)
  4. B.H. Stief Jewelry Co. (Nashville, Tenn.)
  5. Blanton, Ray
  6. Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
  7. Business
  8. Business Enterprises
  9. Businesspeople
  10. Cain Sloan Department Store (Nashville, Tenn.)
  11. Capital City
  12. Capitol Boulevard (Nashville, Tenn.)
  13. Chiles, John Garland, 1903 1980
  14. City Council Members
  15. City Government
  16. Civil Rights
  17. Colleges And Universities
  18. Commerce
  19. Cookery (Beef)
  20. Cookery, American
  21. Cross Keys Restaurant (Nashville, Tenn.)
  22. Department Stores
  23. Downtown Nashville
  24. Economic Aspects
  25. Economic Development
  26. Elections
  27. Enterprise
  28. Family Owned Business Enterprises
  29. Fifth Avenue (Nashville, Tenn.)
  30. Finance
  31. Food
  32. Food Preparation
  33. Food Supply
  34. Government
  35. Grace's Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.)
  36. History
  37. Home Front
  38. Industries
  39. Inner Cities
  40. Interviews
  41. Kess (Nashville, Tenn.)
  42. Kleeman's (Restaurant : Nashville, Tenn.)
  43. Local Officials And Employees
  44. Medical Care
  45. Medicine
  46. Menus
  47. Military History
  48. Municipal Officials And Employees
  49. Nashville
  50. Nashville (Tenn.)
  51. Nixon, Betty Chiles, 1936
  52. Officials And Employees
  53. Politicians
  54. Politics
  55. Popular Culture
  56. Population
  57. Quality
  58. Race Relations
  59. Recipes
  60. Restaurants
  61. Restaurateurs
  62. Rich, Schwartz & Joseph Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.)
  63. Shopping
  64. Social Aspects
  65. Social Change
  66. Social Conditions
  67. Social Justice
  68. Soda Fountains
  69. Soldiers
  70. Sources
  71. Southern Style
  72. Sperry's (Restaurant : Nashville, Tenn.)
  73. Stores, Retail
  74. Tennessee
  75. Tennessee Nashville
  76. United States
  77. Universities
  78. Vanderbilt University. Medical Center
  79. Waitresses
  80. Women
  81. Women Local Officials And Employees
  82. Women Public Officers
  83. World War, 1939 1945
  84. Zanini's Restaurant (Nashville, Tenn.)

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