In downtown Nashville, there is a Walgreens Drug Store at the 5th Ave. entrance to the Arcade. The Arcade is a covered shopping arcade built in 1902 and modeled after an arcade in Italy.
I can't tell you how old the neon sign is, but I assume it is vintage. What I can say is that the Walgreens has been at this location since at least 1960. In 1960, when this Walgreens still had lunch counters, this was one of the primary locations of the Nashville sit-ins, a nationally significant passive resistance movement to end local segregation.
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