In the 50s and 60s, people came to Nashville to make it big in the music world. They either made it big or went back home. People lived in boarding rooms for about $10 a week. Eating was cheap: for about $12 or $13, you could eat a steak dinner. Everything was centrally located, so you could walk everywhere you needed to go.
Today, Nashville is still here — only bigger.
Nowadays, buildings and more buildings are coming up. These buildings are tall and glass. The buildings are called mixed-development, or a store on the ground level and apartments on the next. The next level is maybe a parking lot, maybe a restaurant.
By now, everybody knows that they are building a new football stadium by 2027.
The new baseball stadium. The new Geodis stadium. Who would have thought that soccer would be a big thing? A bunch of new bars and restaurants.
A few four or five new motels open up every year. As of now, they don’t know what to do with the East Bay. Whatever it is, it will be big and pretty.
Now, Nashville is so big and spread out. We have mass transit bus here. Ride anywhere and everywhere for $4 a day.