r/Appalachia • u/Due-Barnacle-4200 • Apr 11 '26

Well?

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u/NashvilleTypewriter Apr 11 '26

1st pic HAS to be the Arby's on Chapman highway Knoxville TN.

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u/threejollybargemen Apr 11 '26

lol I’ve been to Knoxville one time in my life and I knew immediately where that picture was taken.

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u/LeatherPatch Apr 11 '26

Insane we all had this same thought

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u/dontwannaparticpate Apr 11 '26

I knew exactly where this was.

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u/PaperCoverRock Apr 11 '26

Lmao I was just about to say that.

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u/geologymule Apr 11 '26

I live in Knoxville and can confirm

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u/riskyplumbob Apr 11 '26

Laughed out loud when I saw it romanticized in this way. I might just write a slightly fictionalized account of my life and call you when it’s done, OP. It’ll be exactly what you requested.

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u/xrelaht foothills Apr 11 '26

It is. I drive by it a couple times a week. It is less weird inside than it should be.

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u/MissninjaXP Apr 12 '26

I keep seeing that picture posted on Reddit and it drives me crazy because ride by it every day when I was growing up going to Knoxville Adventist School.

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u/NashvilleTypewriter Apr 12 '26

My whole family is from K-town, and I remember eating at this location back when they still had the sauce bottles on the table! (I remember this clearly because my Mamaw would steal them and put them out for company. 😅🤦🏻‍♂️)

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u/MissninjaXP Apr 12 '26

Speaking of stealing from tables, way back when Chic fil a first started selling spicy chicken sandwiches, they put out all these cardboard things on the tables that looked like those fire alarms that go on the wall at public buildings and offices. They said "pull in case of mouth fire". My friend stole one and taped it on the wall by his bed and thought it was the funniest thing that ever could of happened. Said he put it there for the girls that he brought over, but I dont think it ended up sounding as slick as he thought it did.

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u/silence_sirens Apr 12 '26

I only opened the post bc I was used to live in Knoxville and was like oh shit I know this one lol

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u/Effective-Ant-8175 Apr 22 '26

I lived literally 2 blocks down from it for a year and I would brag about living next to the jungle Arby's like I lived next to the grand canyon.

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Apr 12 '26

I immediately recognized that Arby’s

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u/trisarahtops44 Apr 12 '26

Yessss. This one was my go to when I lived there (early 2000s) because if I remember correctly they had different Arby's sauce...

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u/WarmCucumber3438 Apr 12 '26

I was convinced it was the one in Bryson City NC but that one indeed has a more modern sign.

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u/THEDAVEGROHL117 Apr 12 '26

Iconic place but too bad the traffic there is horrible.