Wayne's questions on the "modernization" of Nashville are great. I'll contribute what I remember when living in Nashville (1940s-1960) and share what I've run across when going through old Nashville Newspapers. "When did telephone service arrive?" I have no idea when phone service started in Nashville, but I remember as young girl (in the late 1940s) picking up the phone, getting an operator, and telling her I wanted to speak to my father or grandfather (who owned and worked at the monument business on Main Street). The operators, who were in Nashville and were known by everyone by first names, often could connect the calls without the person calling to give out the phone number (although each phone did have a number something like "41W"). I think the dial system arrived in the early to mid-1950s. We had a "party line" with our neighbor, and I remember often picking up the phone to use it and they were already on the line. You could, of course, listen in on their conversation but that was definitely unacceptable. My family may have shared a line with them for a year or so until we (or perhaps the phone system) switched to all "private" lines. "When was the automobile taking over as the preferred of transportation?" I have pictures of my grandmother and other family members with cars taken somewhere between 1912 to 1916. I don't think there was much a road system in place at that time though, since articles appear in the Nashville Journal in the early 1930s about bids being taken on where the various state routes would be built. Even though cars were the primary transportation as long as I can remember it was not uncommon to still see horses used for transportation in Nashville in the 1940s. My husband lived behind Wayne Hinton's grandfather's house (across from the "old" high school) and has fond memories of Mr. Hinton's horses. And, after we were married and living in Champaign in 1963, our milk was delivered to our apartment by a man driving a horse drawn wagon! Speaking of deliveries, milk was also delivered in Nashville until the mid-1950s. I was still living at home when it stopped and I remember my mom was upset that she then had to go to the "store" for the products. My mother had a standing order for delivery, which was at least a couple of times a week. If there was any change to that order, she would leave a note in one of the milk bottles on the porch prior to that day's delivery. The trick was to be aware when the delivery was made so you could get the milk immediately into the refrigerator! Otherwise it would sit outside and freeze in the winter (!!) or get really warm in the summer which (in my thinking) was questionable whether it was fit to drink. Milk was delivered in glass bottles and it was from the local distributor, Lorenz, whose plant was across from the L&N depot. Also, I'm sure some of you remember that there were a few weeks in the spring the milk always had a "sour" taste from change in diet for the cows, I assume. "Street Lights, Traffic Signals, Speed Limits, Paved Streets?" For those of you who have been to Nashville, you know there is only one traffic light, at the intersection of Routes 127 and 15. That was a blinking red light up until 15-20 years ago. It was a "radical" change for the older residents of the town who weren't use to dealing with waiting for a light to change colors. In the 1940s and '50s, the streets were "oiled" in the summer. A notice was given to the residents as to when their street would be oiled and if you needed to use your car, it was best to pull it out of the driveway and definitely off the street and parked somewhere else for the day. A truck would drive up and down the street covering it with a spray of oil. Once the oil was put down a dump truck with "chat" (a course rock) would drive over the surface and spread the "chat". Often there would be a lag time between the time the oil truck finished spreading the oil and the "chat" truck arrived. That's when the kids (who weren't afraid of being "strongly reprimanded" later!) would go into the street, some with bare feet of course, or on bicycles, and "play." The new surface would dry within a few hours but it was still pretty messy for a few days after the application. And, air pollution wasn't an issue in the 1950s. In the summer, especially a very wet one, trucks would drive up and down the streets with a fogger spray to kill the mosquito; and in the fall everyone raked leaves and then burned them in the street. And I have no idea when electricity first arrived in Nashville, but our son gave us a picture post card at Christmas he purchased on e-bay of the "Ice and Electric Light Plant" in Nashville. The card was mail in August 1914. I have NO idea where this building was located but plan to send it to a couple of people who are 90 years old still living in Nashville to try and get more information about it. I'll share what information I get back from them. Jo