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Tour Coker Tire

If there is one thing car lovers have in common it must be wheels and tires. Let's face it, they really are the single most important piece on the car because you can't drive if it doesn't roll and it can't roll without wheels and tires. This thought was not lost on the late Harold Coker, when he went looking for tires for his own vintage cars in the mid '50s. Seeing the need for new tires for vintage cars Coker Tire was formed in 1958 and it has been constant growth ever since. In 1974 Corky Coker took over the reins of the family tire business. While most of the business was selling tires to Chattanooga, Tennessee, customers for their daily drivers, Corky occupied 500 square feet in the rear of the building dedicated to the vintage tire business. It quickly became apparent that sourcing new tires for old cars was futile, so Coker went from selling tires to producing and selling vintage tires. Molds from around the world were purchased...

Chattanooga Film Festival returns with special guest Elijah Wood

Chattanooga’s support for film has come a long way in the five years since Chris Dortch II’s only option for screening indie and genre works was on a white sheet hung on any bare wall that would have him. In 2011, Dortch’s pop-up art-house theater Mise En Scenesters began hosting its annual Frightening Ass Film Festival every Halloween focusing largely on horror and genre films. Last spring, the group added a full-blown, four-day festival that attracted about 4,000 cinephiles, who watched 51 short and feature films across a range of genres at two downtown theaters. “When it actually happened and that many people came out, it felt simultaneously shocking and like ‘This makes sense; of course this would happen,’” Dortch says. “People love movies. This town deserves this. “As much as I love music and literature and everything else, the medium of the motion picture is a very artistically important one. I think every city in America should have a film festival.” ...