2016 Chattanooga Cruise-In
Wow! We love when our friends come to visit us, but the 2016 Cruise-In event blew our minds. There were thousands of cars and people wedged into every available spot for blocks around our facilities. Thank you all so much for coming to hang with us! Keep you ears open for 2017 details including a host hotel and the event date!
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2016 Chattanooga Cruise-In Time Lapse
Can you believe this? Just five short years ago we begged our boss to let us have a little local cruise-in so that our employees, friends and families could hangout. There's been a ton of growing pains and we are still pedaling to keep up with this explosive growth of the Chattanooga Cruise-In, but look at it now!
This time lapse of the 2016 event shows just how many people showed up to hang at our place. It's unbelievable and truly humbling. We know that with so much going on and so many people trying to get in, that not everyone had a good day and we're hard at work already trying to get even more space and more help to make this thing a good as it can be for everyone.
Thank you all so much for your support, it means the world to all of us here. Please come back and see us!
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Whitewall Radial Tires | Coker Tire Company
Coker Tire Company introduced the world's first wide whitewall radial tires in 1994, sending a ripple through the ever growing automotive aftermarket industry. Many years of research and development led to a high quality tire that features a classic car appearance with the modern handling characteristics of a radial. The Coker Classic brand offers a number of sizing options for hot rods, classic cars and other applications. Radial Coker white walls are DOT and ECE approved and backed by our Life of the Tread warranty. Wide whitewall radial tires are a great replacement for original bias ply tires, as they offer a great ride and authentic looks for a wide variety of collector vehicles. Coker Tire's whitewall radial tires are 100 percent authentic, thanks to the true whitewall construction, which is built into its custom tire molds. This manufacturing process is difficult, but it ensures a quality tire, and that's what Coker Tire Company is all about!
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Corky and Jeff Announce Chattanooga 2013 Hot Rod Power Tour Stop
Corky Coker and Jeff Dahlin announce Chattanooga, Tennessee as a stop on the 2013 Hot Rod Power Tour. The event will bring 3,000-5,000 cars and trucks to Chattanooga State for the 12-7:00pm official stop. The after party will continue as all are invited to join local hot rods in the historic downtown location of Coker Tire Company. The evening will include local food trucks, live music and open tours of Coker Tire Company, museum and Honest Charley Speed Shop and Garage.
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Special Day For Coker Tire Company Employee
It was a very special day for a member of the Coker Tire Company family. Sam Sarmiento became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America.
2010 Coker Tire Challenge Highlights
The Coker Tire Challenge is a time/speed/endurance rally hosted by Coker Tire Company. The rally pits teams against timed stages with each second off the precise time counted as a point against your overall score. Low score wins. The event tours out-and-back all over the tri-state area on some of the most scenic roads and landscapes our country has to offer. The fellowship, camaraderie and competition is second to no other event of its kind.
towing museum
WAGA's coverage of Chattanooga's towing museum.
American painter and sculptor Carl Blair Died 85
Carl Blair was born on November 28, 1932 and died on January 22, 2018. He was an artist and, for more than forty years, a member of the art faculty at Bob Jones University.A native of Atchison, Kansas, Blair earned a B. A. in art at the University of Kansas and a M.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. In addition to his teaching at BJU, he also served on the art faculty at KCAI summer programs and as a member of the cooperating faculty at the Greenville County Museum of Art. Blair exhibited his work in more than a hundred museums, art galleries and universities and won more than ninety national, state, and regional awards. His works have been purchased for more than 2500 private, corporate, and public collections. His exhibitions include the Art in Embassies Program; Ringling Museum of Art; Morris Museum, Augusta, Ga.; and the Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tenn. In 1995, the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, S.C., hosted a major retrospective of his work. In 2000, a 40-year retrospective show was held at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia.In 2005 Blair was awarded the Verner Award for Lifetime Achievement, the highest award given by the state of South Carolina in the arts. In 2013, the Greenville Metropolitan Arts Council (MAC) created the Carl R. Blair Award for commitment to Arts Education, an award given annually to a Greenville arts educator. In 2016, MAC honored Blair with the exhibition “Artists Touched by Carl R. Blair,” which featured the work of 55 Upstate artists who he had influenced and motivated. In the exhibition catalog, a fellow artist described Blair as challenging, encouraging, helpful, witty, and inspirational to all his students.
Trolley Car Boycott | Many Rivers | NPT
Dr. Tommie Morton-Young tells the story of the 1905 Trolley Car Boycott in Nashville, TN in response to Jim Crow laws enacted to segregate Nashville's trolleys. African-Americans refused to ride, and a local black businessmen started the first African-American trolley company in response.
2014 Motorcycle Cannonball Tennessee Switchbacks
2014 Motorcycle Cannonball riders taking the turns in Tennessee. (This video was filmed in High Def. For best viewing results, play on 1080p HD in YouTube Settings located in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.)
Smokin' Hot Motorcycle Cannonball
2014 Motorcycle Cannonball riders and their bikes heat up on their way into Clarksville, TN, in route to Appleton Harley-Davidson. (This video was filmed in High Def. For best viewing results, play on 1080p HD in YouTube Settings located in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.)
Chattanooga, Tennessee | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Chattanooga, Tennessee
00:02:02 1 History
00:09:07 2 Geography
00:11:00 2.1 Cityscape
00:13:45 2.1.1 Downtown revitalization
00:15:45 2.2 Neighborhoods
00:16:20 2.3 Important suburbs
00:16:28 2.4 Climate
00:18:28 3 Demographics
00:21:50 3.1 Religion
00:22:44 4 Economy
00:27:06 4.1 Utilities
00:28:55 4.2 EPB's gigabit public fiber optic network
00:31:05 4.3 Banking
00:32:54 5 Culture and tourism
00:33:03 5.1 Museums
00:33:46 5.2 Arts and literature
00:34:36 5.3 Attractions
00:37:35 5.4 Festivals and events
00:39:43 6 Sports
00:40:08 6.1 Organized sports
00:42:49 6.2 Outdoor sports
00:47:49 7 Media and communications
00:48:11 7.1 Newspapers
00:50:18 7.2 Online media
00:51:04 7.3 Radio
00:51:17 7.3.1 AM
00:51:25 7.3.2 FM
00:51:33 7.4 Television
00:52:58 8 Law and government
00:56:36 9 Education
00:56:45 9.1 Primary and secondary education
00:58:02 9.2 Higher education
00:59:30 9.3 Public library
01:00:36 10 Health care
01:02:05 11 Transportation
01:02:33 11.1 Principal highways
01:02:56 11.2 Major surface routes
01:03:47 11.3 Tunnels
01:04:28 11.4 Public transit
01:04:54 11.5 Bicycle-sharing system
01:05:15 11.6 Railroad lines
01:08:30 11.7 Bridges
01:10:43 11.8 Air travel
01:11:07 12 Notable people
01:11:17 13 Pop culture
01:11:44 13.1 Novels
01:12:06 13.2 Documentaries
01:12:49 13.3 Films
01:13:41 13.4 Sporting and entertainment events
01:14:12 13.5 TV shows
01:14:37 13.6 Miscellaneous film and TV productions
01:15:29 14 Sister/Twinning cities
01:17:02 15 See also
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Chattanooga is a city located along the Tennessee River near the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. With an estimated population of 179,139 in 2017, it is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee and one of the two principal cities of East Tennessee, along with Knoxville. Served by multiple railroads and Interstate highways, Chattanooga is a transit hub. Chattanooga lies 118 miles (190 km) northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, 112 miles (180 km) southwest of Knoxville, Tennessee, 134 miles (216 km) southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, 102 miles (164 km) northeast of Huntsville, Alabama, and 147 miles (237 km) northeast of Birmingham, Alabama.
The city, with a downtown elevation of approximately 680 feet (210 m), lies at the transition between the ridge-and-valley portion of the Appalachian Mountains and the Cumberland Plateau. Surrounded by mountains and ridges, the official nickname for Chattanooga is Scenic City, reinforced by the city's reputation for outdoor activities. Unofficial nicknames include River City, Chatt, Nooga, Chattown, and Gig City, referencing Chattanooga's claims that it has the fastest internet service in the Western Hemisphere.Chattanooga is internationally known for the 1941 song Chattanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller and his orchestra. Chattanooga is home to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) and Chattanooga State Community College.
The city has its own typeface, Chatype, which was launched in August 2012. According to the Nooga.com website, this marks the first time that an American city has its own custom-made typeface and also the first time a crowd-funded custom-made typeface has been used for any municipality in the world.