Sam Davis Hotel

I occasionally stumble across some affecting imagery and really don't know where to put it! Case in point, this image of Sam Davis Hotel being demolished in Nashville, 1985. The building, along with many others, was destroyed to make way for the Nashville Convention Center - a huge, potential, boost to the tourism economy but at the cost of displacing the permanent residents of the building, among many others.

This Nashville History X post paints an even bleaker story:

The hotel was cleared of the remainder of its 150 permanent residents just before Thanksgiving 1984. Many of the residents were elderly and otherwise homeless. They paid $31.50 a week at one of the last residential hotels in Nashville.

Oof. It's been 40 years since the Hotel was demolished but that imagery, mixed with that history, is still a potent one.