1974 when the new opry house was built. But during the run of the 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s, some of the most famous people in all of Country Music history debuted here at the grand ole opry including hank williams, george jones, dolly parton, all these brand names of Country Music cut their and got their start in this wonderful building. The Ryman Auditorium almost didnt happen because of the 1884 president ial race versus Grover Cleveland versus blaine. And the democrats had lost literally six president ial races and had not won since 1856. And tom ryman, who was a river boat captain here in this town, was a very bad gambler. And he was walking the streets of downtown nashville and got goaded on to start betting on the president ial election. And the blaine people were all out thinking that blaine was going to win, and ryman basically took all bets or people that thought that blaine would win. So hed say ill bet 100 to you, 500 to you, 1,000 to you. And before captain ryman knew wh