If you’re like us, the “somewhere on Google Maps” trend has taken over your social media feeds.
Here’s how it works: Folks search their home address to find special memories captured by Google over time, like their grandfather mowing the lawn, childhood pets in the driveway, or even themselves playing outside.
It got us thinking — what moments in Chattanooga have been memorialized by Google Maps? Here’s what we found.
Booked at the Tivoli almost a decade before the biopic
Somewhere on Google Maps... it’s 2016 and Bob Dylan is set to take the stage on a Sunday night with The Tempations + The Four Tops following just a couple days later.
The grill is on at Zarzour’s Cafe
Somewhere on Google Maps... it’s October of 2011 and Chattanooga’s oldest restaurant was throwing grub on the grill for residents — a true staple throughout the decades.
Wheland Foundry before South Broad construction
Somewhere on Google Maps... it’s December in 2020, two years before a revitalization vision was announced for this industrialized site.
The tail end of “Be kind, rewind”
Somewhere on Google Maps... it’s 2007 and the St. Elmo building that now houses Naughty Cat Cafe was one of the city’s Blockbuster destinations.
Before Tomorrow
Somewhere on Google Maps... it’s August of 2007 and Mid Town Music Hall was the happening place in Patten Parkway — long before the Tomorrow Building put in your local favs like Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint.
The Edwin’s beginnings
Somewhere on Google Maps... it’s October of 2016 and construction crews were hard at work putting together The Edwin Hotel, which wouldn’t open to the public for two more years.
Sculpture Fields before it was fully developed
Somewhere on Google Maps... it’s 2017 and Sculpture Fields at Montague Park only had a couple of pieces installed. Now, it holds 50 international works of art.
