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A classic west Knoxville restaurant has been torn down. After closing in 2019, the former site of Naples Italian Restaurant has been demolished.

Another piece of Cumberland Avenue history near the University of Tennessee campus will make way for new apartments.

University of Tennessee pioneer in speech and hearing remembered The Knoxville News-Sentinel 3/16/2021 John Shearer Attorney Larry Silverstein of West Hills was just like a kid again as he took a mask-covered tour through the halls of the small University of Tennessee Hearing and Speech Center this month. He pointed out his father’s first office on the left after entering from the north end and a later one down the hall.  “We used to come up here a lot on the weekends bec...

Attorney Larry Silverstein of West Hills was just like a kid again as he took a mask-covered tour through the halls of the small University of Tennessee Hearing and Speech Center this month. He pointed out his father’s first office on the left after entering from the north end and a later one down the hall.  “We used to come up here a lot on the weekends because my mother would be typing for my father,” said Silverstein, who is now in his 60s and had not been inside the building in a few...