Books by Ronald R. Allen

Mailing address - Ronald Allen 5300 Bluefield Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921

Telephone - 865-584-4487 Email - ronaldallen@knology.net

All books are privately published and are available only from the author. Books shipped via media mail. When ordering please include postage cost of $3.00 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book (Maximum postage charge is $5.00, regardless of number of books ordered.)

State of Tennessee Tax Number 105285443. Libraries billed as requested. Others please pay by check. For questions, additional information, or comments, please contact us via email, telephone, or at the above address.

The first three books listed below are new publications, available in January, 2011.

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KNOX-STALGIA. AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMMUNITIES, SCHOOLS, HOTELS, ENTERTAINMENT VENUES, HISTORICAL BUILDINGS, ORGANIZATIONS, SITES, AND SOME HISTORICAL EVENTS IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 1950. Knoxville. 2011. Enlarged and revised edition. 336 pages. Illustrated. Identifies nearly five hundred communities that have existed in Knoxville and Knox County from the earliest times to the year 1950, the majority of those places being unmentioned in the generally recognized standard historical books about Knoxville and Knox County. KNOX-STALGIA also lists numerous other sites, including early taverns, playing fields, theaters, hotels, schools, etc. This edition contains nearly twice as many entries as were included in the original 1998 edition, plus many additional illustrations. $25.00

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE IN THE GAY NINETIES. Knoxville. 2011. 245 pages. Illustrated. A chronological listing of various happenings in Knoxville, from January, 1890 through December, 1899. Includes not only significant historical happenings but some out of the way and long forgotten events. In some respects, the evidence of progress in a mid southern city. On the other hand, with problems including poor health services, unpaved streets, inadequate garbage disposal, a number of indigent families, a thriving prostitution trade, and a sizeable number of indigent families, revealing that perhaps the 1890's in Knoxville were not so gay after all. $ 20.00

FROM BEGINNING TO BOHEMI-END. A HISTORY OF GAY STREET, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. Knoxville, 2011. 173 pages. A review of Knoxville's main downtown thoroughfare, listing many of the businesses, hotels, restaurants, theaters, and other firms that have been located on Gay street through the years. Blocks are listed individually, from the 1000 block of South Gay between Hill and Front northward to the viaduct and including the first block of North Gay between Depot and Magnolia. Illustrations from old photographs and advertisements. With comments and observations, including the numerous attempts to revitalize downtown Knoxville during the past sixty years and the current situation, where virtually all remnants what once was the city's principal shopping area has disappeared from the scene, replaced by private residences and restaurants, where the area today is primarily the site of entertainment and leisure activities. $ 17.50

THEATERS IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, 1872 - 1982. Knoxville. 2009. Soft cover. 88 pages. Illustrated. A history of theaters in Knoxville from the opening of Staub's Opera House in 1872 through the year 1982. From the early twentieth century includes a record of the movies houses that existed in Knoxville, including seven locations where early movies were being shown in Knoxville in the year A separate section includes information concerning earlier entertainment venues and twentieth century live entertainment theaters. $ 10.00

KNOXVILLE MISCELLANY. Knoxville. 2008. Soft cover. 262 pages. Illustrated. 8 x 11. A collection of the author's writings about old Knoxville, including ; Knoxville's final full time combination movie and live state entertainment venue, the Roxy Theater ; Knoxville's Red Light District in the Bowery and Cripple Creek from the 1890's through 1913 ; stories concerning early failed suburban additions including the Cherokee Addition and another at Middlebrook called Glenwood ; chapters on local sports, fairs, parks, historic sites and buildings, and numerous other subjects about old Knoxville. $15.00

FROM CAS WALKERS TO DOWNTOWN HAWKERS. Knoxville. 2008. Soft cover. 328 pages. Illustrations. A year by year account of some of some of the events that took place in Knoxville from 1934 through 2007. Includes accounts of historical events, entertainment and sports, political happenings, and other writings concerning events, people, and places in Knoxville during a period of more than seventy years. $15.00

SAME OLD SMOKIES. Knoxville. 2008. Soft cover. 8 x 11. 90 pages. Illustrated. A preliminary chronological record of the Knoxville's baseball teams, from 1866 to 1954, including early independent organizations and teams including the Reds, the Indians, the Appalachians and the Smokies. Includes information concerning the dismal record posted by the Smokies baseball team that played in the Southern Association from the early 1930's through middle 1940's. $10.00

NOSE GUARDS AND WILD CARDS. Knoxville. 2008. Soft cover. 77 pages. Illustrated. The real story of the earliest University of Tennessee football teams, from 1891 through 1899. Including records of the teams that played during years when even today most sources suggest that UT had no football teams. Also reveals a generally unmentioned plaingwere in existence but even today are generally not when the team was dropped from the sanctioned from playing tfor the year $7.50 circumstance that existed, when Tennessee was banned from the Southern Intercollegiate Conference and prohibited from playing teams in that conference during the 1897 season, for using illegal players. $ 7.50

FAIRS AND CIRCUSES IN KNOXVILLE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Knoxville. 2008. Soft cover. 8 x 11. 82 pages. Illustrated. Listing many of the circuses and all fairs that were held in Knoxville in the nineteenth century, at side including the old baseball grounds at Union avenue and State street, the old fair grounds in East Knoxville, the new fair grounds south of the river, and at Flanders Park, west of the New Gray Cemetery. $10.00

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, SUMMER, 1915 - SPRING, 1916. Knoxville. 2008 Soft cover. 8 x 11. 111 pages. Illustrated. A description of Knoxville during the approximate year covered in James Agee's book, A Death in the Family. Schools, theaters, places, and some events that occurred during that time period. $12.00

RUNNING PLAYS AND PASSING DAYS. THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, 1900-1950. Knoxville, Tenn. 2003. Softbound. Illustrated. A record of high school football in Knoxville during the first fifty years of the twentieth century, including the available records of teams including the University School, Knoxville High School, Central High School, Young, Rule, Stair Tech, and partial records of early football teams at schools including Karns, Powell Station and other schools. $ 15.00

THE STREET HAS CHANGED. A REVIEW OF THE DEMOLITION OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AND HOMES IN DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, WITH VIEWS OF DOWNTOWN STREETS TODAY AND YESTERDAY. Knoxville, Tennessee. 2003. Softbound. Illustrations of many buildings that once existed in downtown Knoxville but have since been demolished, together with photographs of the streets in modern times. $ 20.00

KNOXVILLE 1948. A CASUAL STROLL THROUGH DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE IN 1948. Knoxville. 2001. Softbound. (113 pages). Illustrations. A review of downtown Knoxville as it was in 1948, with descriptions of the business houses, theaters, buildings, and occasional comments and reminiscences of that time. The stark differences today are evident. For example, that year there were twenty department stores, nineteen hotels, fifteen grocery stores, and seven movie theaters in downtown Knoxville. $ 12.00

DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING OF BUSINESS HOUSES, STORES, RESTAURANTS AND OTHER GAY STREET FIRMS, 1859-1950. WITH ADDENDA, CONTAINING A PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESSES IN KNOXVILLE PRIOR TO 1860. Knoxville. 2001. Softbound. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4. 90 pages. Illustrations. $ 12.00

OLD TENNESSEE SONGS. Knoxville. 2001. Softbound. (244 pages) A compilation of songs published with the word "Tennessee" in the song title. With title page reproductions of 100 pieces of old Tennessee sheet music, with the words to those songs included. Also includes at the end of the book a list of more than 1000 songs that have been published with "Tennessee" in the title. $ 15.00

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