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Feb 1, 1962
The Bradley Film & Recording Studio, the cornerstone of Nashville's Music Row, becomes Columbia Recording Studios as Owen Bradley sells the facility for $300,000
Apr 1, 1967
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opens in a barn-like structure on Music Row in Nashville. It remains at that location for 34 years, before moving downtown
Dec 31, 1969
Del Reeves, John Wesley Ryles and Jerry Foster perform at the reopening of Sunnyside Gardens, a club in Queens, New York
Oct 20, 1970
The Nashville City Council votes to make 16th and 17th Avenues, the heart of Music Row, one-way streets
Sep 14, 1975
The Tennessean runs its first ad featuring a company with a Music Square address. The Electric Chair, a hair and nail salon, is located at 50 Music Square West, formerly 900 17th Avenue South. The ad appears days after the dedication of Music Square Park in Nashville, with 16th and 17th Avenues given new Music Square street names
Jun 2, 1976
Ernest Tubb cuts the ribbon at the official opening of the second Ernest Tubb Record Shop on Demonbreun Street in Nashville
Jun 12, 1976
Ernest Tubb's radio show "The Midnite Jamboree" moves to the second Ernest Tubb Record Shop, on Demonbreun Street in Nashville
Sep 9, 1977
After visiting RCA to take a tape of songs to Chet Atkins, a Canadian man returns to Music Row, throws $2,500 worth of traveler's checks into the air and strips. Police arrest him, calling him "calm but incoherent"
May 24, 1978
A day before it opens to the public, Webb Pierce unveils his guitar-shaped swimming pool to the music industry. Record producer Glenn Sutton runs through the crowd in a Green Hornet mask and green trunks, swims the length of the pool and disappears
May 25, 1978
Webb Pierce's guitar-shaped pool on Music Row is opened to the public. Also on display is his $100,000 silver-dollar convertible, a 1962 Pontiac with 1,100 silver dollars embedded in the design
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