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The Tennessee Amphitheater was built for 1982 World's Fair [1] and was designed by structural engineer Horst Berger, part of McCarty Bullock and Holsaple, architects of Knoxville (led by architect Bruce McCarty, the Master Architect of the 1982 World's Fair), and Geiger Berger, structural engineers of New York City.
The Fair was not held in 1917 or 1918 due to influenza outbreak but began again in 1919. [3] The fair was later rechartered as a non-profit organization and renamed the Tennessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair in 1932 - the 1933 fair was the first Fair operating under the new name.
World's Fair Park is a public park in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The park sits on the former fairgrounds of the 1982 World's Fair hosted in Knoxville. Today, the park is home to the Sunsphere and the Tennessee Amphitheater , the two remaining structures from the exposition.
Our downtown Knoxville predictions that didn’t happen in 2023 have potential to come true this year: replacing the Pryor Brown Garage, building a block-sized development, creating stadium ...
These areas and other downtown-adjacent neighborhoods are primed for even more growth, which Knoxville should expect to see in 2024. Ryan Wilusz is a downtown growth and development reporter ...
Downtown Knoxville Christmas Parade. Dec. 6. The 51st annual WIVK Christmas Parade in downtown Knoxville will begin at 7 p.m. Dec. 6. Bands, dancers, lighted floats, characters and Santa Claus ...
In the same year, Knoxville and the 1982 World's Fair were featured prominently in an episode of The Simpsons, "Bart on the Road". In the episode, Bart, having obtained a fake ID, travels to Knoxville with his friends to visit the fair after seeing an advertisement in a tourism brochure, only to learn that it closed a decade before.
The annual lineup of events dedicated to honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Knoxville for 2024 centers on the theme of "Keeping the Legacy with Faith, Love and Action." For more than 40 years ...