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Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia

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Location

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    (1854- )
    Located on the Tennessee/Virginia border
    Named after Bristol, Connecticut
    Population of Bristol, Tennessee: 27,147 (2020)
    Population of Bristol, Virginia: 17, 219 (2020)
    Home of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum and the Bristol Motor Speedway (both in Tennessee)

Why Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia might be annoying:

    The Tennessee-Virginia boundary runs through the middle of State Street.
    The Bristol Pirates folded during contraction of minor league baseball (2021).
    The Bristol, Virginia, landfill produces notoriously bad odors, probably due to a failure of its liner system.
    Before adopting its current motto, its slogan was 'Push! That's Bristol.' (Huh?)

Why Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia might not be annoying:

    RCA Victor producer Ralph Peer made some of the first commercial recordings of country music here, including the debuts of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family (1927).
    A Congressional resolution formally recognized it as 'the Birthplace of Country Music' (1998).
    The Bristol Motor Speedway inspired the fictional Motor Speedway of the South in Pixar's 'Cars.'
    In choosing a new city slogan, 'A Good Place to Live' beat out 'The Best Place to Live' because it was 'modest in claim and truthful in statement.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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