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    • May 24, 1914
    Tootsie Bess is born. She gains fame as the owner of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a bar near the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville that becomes the stomping grounds for such artists and songwriters as Willie Nelson, Roger Miller, Harlan Howard and Mel Tillis
    May 24, 1975
    The day she turns 61, Tootsie Bess--owner of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge--gets a surprise 16th birthday party
    Nov 24, 1977
    Tootsie Bess, the owner of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, enters Vanderbilt Hospital with cancer. She stays until December 29
    Dec 24, 1977
    One month after she entered Vanderbilt Hospital for cancer treatment, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge owner Tootsie Bess gets a visit from Tom T. Hall, who brings a tabletop Christmas tree made by his wife, Dixie
    Dec 29, 1977
    Tootsie Bess, the owner of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, is discharged from Vanderbilt Hospital, exactly five weeks after she entered the facility with cancer
    Feb 18, 1978
    Hattie Louise Bess--better known as "Tootsie"--dies in Nashville. Her bar on Lower Broadway, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, became a hangout for Harlan Howard, Mel Tillis, Willie Nelson, Faron Young and others after she bought it in 1960
    Nov 8, 2009
    Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, Ernest Tubb, Kid Rock and Hattie Louise "Tootsie" Bess--the founder of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge--are inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame in Nashville
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