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    • May 27, 1972
    Nashville's Opryland theme park officially opens to the public. The grounds become the home for Roy Acuff, while the park is a launching pad for such talents as Diamond Rio, Little Texas, Chely Wright and songwriter Dean Dillon
    Jun 13, 1972
    The Country Music Foundation Library & Media Center, an education and research wing of the Country Music Hall of Fame, is dedicated
    Sep 20, 1973
    "Are You Ready For The Country" songwriter Neil Young delivers the first show at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. In the audience: Carole King, Dickey Betts, Elton John and producer Richard Perry 
    Oct 12, 1973
    Dolly Parton and Tom T. Hall perform in Carthage, Tennessee, at the dedication of the Cordell Hull Dam and Lake
    Feb 12, 1974
    The Bottom Line is established in New York City. The club hosts a wide range of country performers, including Tammy Wynette, Kris Kristofferson, Carlene Carter and Michael Martin Murphey, who meets his wife, Mary, at the front door, after a show
    Mar 16, 1974
    The Grand Ole Opry gives its first performance at the new Grand Ole Opry House. President Richard Nixon appears at the event. Roy Acuff, who gives Nixon a yo-yo demonstration, is the first performer, doing "Wabash Cannonball." The rest of the Opry cast appears alphabetically, beginning with Bill Anderson
    May 12, 1974
    A $2-million psychiatric facility is dedicated as the Johnny Cash Hospital in Decatur, Alabama. As a bronze plaque is unveiled at the ceremony, Cash says, "I feel higher than I ever did on dope"
    Dec 20, 1974
    Merle Haggard opens Hag's Place in North Hollywood, which he expects to become the first in a chain of clubs
    Mar 12, 1975
    George Jones opens his Possum Holler nightclub at the corner of Commerce & Printers Alley in Nashville
    May 23, 1975
    The Jimmie Rodgers Museum is dedicated in Meridian, Mississippi



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