The Rock Block
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One of Nashville’s oldest streets, Elliston Place was a popular commercial corridor by 1930. Elliston Place Soda Shop opened in 1939. In 1971 Owsley Manier and Brugh Reynolds opened the listening-room style music venue Exit/In, named for its main rear entrance. In the early 1980s the area became known as “The Rock Block,” with businesses like The End, TGI Friday’s, Obie’s Pizza, The Gold Rush and Mosko’s shaping Elliston Place’s legacy as Nashville’s counterculture epicenter.
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