The city’s mayor and Tennessee’s governor threw their support behind the name change last month
The Nashville airport is to be renamed after Dolly Parton, a board of commissioners voted on Friday, in tribute to the Smoky Mountain singer who is estimated to bring $1.8bn each year to Tennessee through her Dollywood theme park.
The decision ensures that Parton, who died last month at 80 years old, will be memorialized with her name on an airport, although the renaming process will take time to complete.
Ah, so in SOME cases we still wait till the honoree is no longer alive before naming things after them?
Dolly Parton Regional Kiosk
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everyone liked that
We like the idea. The people in Nashville are a little miffed that it’ll cost more than $10 million. We’d rather see that go to transit or education (and I think Dolly would have too).
Just put up a statue in the airport like Austin has SRV and use the money for something better
$10 mil wtf how are these things so expensive
Trunk about how many things say the name of the airport. Tons of road signs, which are not cheap. Internal signs in the building. External signs. Every shirt and name badge of every employee (hundreds of not 1000). All the software. Every airline has to update stuff.
Now rename a boobie habitat after her and this fucked up world just wrighted itself a bit.
wrighted
If anything got Wrighted, it’d obviously be the airport.
Ah yes, the Dollybird
So, Dollyport. Right?
The common joke is that now people will be “departing from D. Parton”
Finally some good fucking news
That’s certainly… (••) ( ••)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) …“Uplifting” news!
Not to take away from that, but i was rather expecting a cover to this song: https://youtu.be/0j6g_uUhH2c
There is now exactly one good thing about Tennessee, two if you can separate the beautiful landscape from the people.
I mean Dollywood is still open right? I worry about its future but as of now, still pretty kick ass.
