9. The late U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, upon drinking a cup of Maxwell House Coffee, pronounced it “good to the last drop” — the slogan the company still uses today. Who knew Theodore Roosevelt was a copywriter? Roosevelt’s proclamation took place in the Maxwell House Hotel, so you can probably guess how the name of that coffee originated. Joel Owsley Cheek invented the special blend in 1892 and sold it just to the hotel. Apparently his selective business plan worked.
10. Country music star Keith Urban and his wife, actress Nicole Kidman, are often spotted around town; Urban often eats breakfast at the Pancake Pantry — standing in line like everyone else.
11. The 175,000-sq-ft/16,258-sq-meter green roof of Nashville’s new Music City Center is meant to emulate the hills of Tennessee.
12. In 1928, blind Vanderbilt University student Morris Frank decided to look into a rumor about using seeing-eye dogs as guides. He brought the very first dog back to the U.S. and started The Seeing Eye Inc. in Nashville.
In February, 1929, the first class graduated from The Seeing Eye. Shown left to right are chief instructor Jack Humphrey; graduate Dr. Raymond Harris with Tartar; instructor Adelaide Clifford; graduate Dr. Howard Buchanan with Gala; and instructor Willi Ebeling.
13. There is still a string of red, blue, and green lights at RCA Studio B from when Elvis couldn’t get into the Christmas spirit while recording his Christmas album, so they put up some lights, and left them.
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