Positively Schwall

Here are the most recent restaurants, businesses, people and places featured on Positively Schwall.

Restaurants

Tony Gore's BBQ
1818 Winfield Dunn (Hwy 66)
Sevierville, TN   865-429-7771
Great BBQ...,home of the 1,2 or 3 pound burgers.
Crossroads Cafe
536 Asheville Hwy
Strawberry PLains, TN   865- 932-6664
Could be in Kodak...could be Strawberry Plains. No one is sure. No matter.
It's All So Yummy Cafe
120 S Peters Rd
, TN   769-6539
Sandwiches...Cuban etc. plus a dazzling array of grilled cheese sandwiches...including Krispie-Kreme.

Businesses

Mountain Girls Primitives
3115 Wears Valley Rd.
Wears Valley, TN   865-428-9040
Cool old stuff...
South End Tradiing Post
710 S. Gateway
Rockwood, TN   865-228-1806
Unusual but cool things.
Nothing Too Fancy
435 Union Ave
Knoxville, TN   951-2916
www.nothingtoofancy.com
Cool stuff. Nice folks.

People and Places

Boogertown Gap
, TN   www.boogertowngap.com
boogertowngap@comcast.net
Great name for a town...and an old time string band.
Steve Kaufman Acoustic Camps
Maryville College
Maryville, TN   www.flatpik.com

Ask Schwall

Ask SchwallKen Schwall has made an art out of asking tough provoking questions to the citizens of East Tennessee.

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Questions

Do all these security cameras everywhwere we go make you worry? It seems that we have no privacy anymore.
Brenda, Knoxville
I'm not sure how I feel about all the cameras. I've never been a fan of the redlight camera...more so after I got socked for a $50 fine. (It was for turning right on red and two weeks later they stopped giving tickets for that!) They say that in some cities you can leave your house, be gone all day and come home and never be out of range of a camera. A lot of those cameras are set up to catch bad guys doing bad things. I guess it's a choice between privacy and safety. But like anything else, there's lots of room for abuse. And forget the privacy. We used to have security cameras up on Sharp's Ridge where we have your transmitter. You'd be shocked at some of the things our cameras picked up. Then again, maybe you wouldn't.
Have you seen the wild socks that former President George H.W. Bush has been wearing? Would you have the nerve to wear them?
Sid, Knoxville
I've seen Mr. Bush's recent sock choices and no, I wouldn't have the nerve to wear them. Then again, I'm not a former U.S. President. Those guys can pretty much do what they want. I'd like to know where he finds them. I've never noticed them in the stores. It reminds me of legendary sportscaster Lindsey Nelson who was known for the loud sportscoats he wore. After he retired to Knoxville I asked him where he got those loud coats and he said he'd go into a men's store and ask to see "whatever they can't sell".
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