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Acme Feed & Seed to reopen April 1 after being closed for most of the past year
Acme Feed and Seed reopening downtown
and last updated 2021-03-12 20:23:23-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Acme Feed & Seed will reopen on April 1 for the first time since briefly reopening in October.
The popular Broadway honky-tonk closed when the pandemic first started and didn t reopen until October. There was a two week period of operation before they decided to close the bar down again. Back in October we did and we felt like the challenge of being the police, the mandate police, was counter intuitive to our nature which is hospitality, said Tom Morales, owner of the bar. We had several staff members that caught COVID and it became, you know, what is the better part of valor?
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Honky Tonk Central, Sept. 6, 2020Photo: Alex Kent
In July, as Nashville was hitting new highs for COVID-19 positivity rates and hospitalizations were surging across Tennessee, TMZ published a video of Lower Broadway with the title âNo-Maskville.â The nearly 90-second clip taken from a car shows what looks like a normal scene for the street on a weekend night â and thatâs what was so confounding about it. Large crowds crammed into small indoor bars, with many more people milling around outside waiting to get in, most of them apparently unmasked. A shirtless man strolls by in the foreground.
It was one of several videos and images from Nashvilleâs main tourist destination that spread around the internet over the past year to the shock and horror of many observers. The images further prompted a question that one might have already felt compelled to ask: What the hell is going on down there?Â