Legendary LIFE Magazine photographer and Nashville native Ed Clark took a series 
of photographs of the Ryman inside and out on July 20, 1946, 65 years ago from 
the summer of 2011.  It's a neat thing to take a look at what was happening down 
the street just two blocks from The Arts Company on Nashville's 5th Avenue in 
downtown Nashville, today known as Nashville's 5th Avenue of the Arts.  From our 
perspective now, these photographs look like staged photographs, complete with 
costumes and activities of the mid-1940"s, just after the end of World War II.  
Some of the interior shots include many of the names that helped put Nashville 
on the map as Music City--Minnie Pearl, Chet Atkins, Ernest Tubb, Pee Wee King, 
and many more.  

The remaining prints signed by Mr. Clark from this series will be offered for 
purchase at The Arts Company, as supplies last.  Many of the images are no 
longer available, but all of the images are premier images of the history of 
Nashville's music industry in the 20th-century.