Comments on: California couple says goodbye to Knoxville

By: Bill Lavin

Bill Lavin — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:17:00 +0000

Glenn is partnering up with two incredible designers, Casey Lavin and Cameron, Fraser both Honor Graduates from Art Center of Design College in Pasadena California in this new company… Both designers have been working with me for the last 6 years doing Leather Island vintage jean belts, Soft Collection Dress Belts, and Bill Lavin Signature Collections… With Glenn and these boys partnering up in this company Bible Blessings venture, you can get a sneak glimpse of these few designs and only imagine what’s to come… I wish them well…. bill lavin

By: Judy Collins Griess

Judy Collins Griess — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:38:25 +0000

Good job on those photos Cynthia, looks like a very nice house.

By: Cynthia Moxley

Cynthia Moxley — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:18:47 +0000

Hey, Katie: I’m sure he does have photos. Why don’t you contact him at glennlaikentn@gmail.com. I’m sure he’ll be happy to send them to you. I gave him a heads up about your post on here.

By: Katie Kline

Katie Kline — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:27:27 +0000

Any photos of the Norris property?

By: John Barbarino

John Barbarino — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:41:23 +0000

All places have their assets and their non-assets. Mine was being allergic to the pollens, the trees, the valley that doesn’t change its air much. Though, maybe all the twisters and wicked weather has turned the air around. There is something to being by the beach and have the best of land and water.

And good dressing is everywhere these days since the advent of cable. When I was in LA in the eighties my kid sister, 15, dissed the kids in LA for being very slack with dressing. After 90210 hit TV, all the kids in NYC were adapting their styles to LA.

Never found an event in Knoxville not full of someone who dressed for it. And once in TVA, a man gently tapped my shoulder and said, “I hope what you are doing catches on.” He was a forty year old Dad. And his comment was on my Banana Republic high navy vest with cream and navy and burgundy striped silk. What was charming was the way he WHISPERED IT so as not to sound critical of the status quo. A great memory of the mid-nineties.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:31:26 +0000

How painful it would be to love and live in a city where pressures exist not for “volunteering”, but for plastic surgery. NOT worth the time I took to read this article. Best of luck to them, but clearly, they were out of place in this town from the start.

By: Cynthia Moxley

Cynthia Moxley — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:55:12 +0000

Well, in their defense, their house truly is lovely. Not being a professional photographer, my pictures don’t do it justice. And it is a great price for its size and location. It was fun talking to the Laikens about such things as what they like and don’t like in a city. Knoxville is so perfect for me and my friends. But I’m OK with others liking another city more. Variety being the spice of life and all…

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:27 +0000

For criticizing Knoxville with not having “culture and fashion” their house sure lacks to reflect their take on fashion and culture. Their choice of furnishings does not convey a good model if they’re emphasizing those two as main fallbacks for leaving. And for what it’s worth Knoxville definitely has a great culture- I’m just certain they weren’t set out on looking for it since they were blinded by what people looked like rather than the culture that people convey here.

By: Cynthia Moxley

Cynthia Moxley — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:40:30 +0000

Diana: Laughed, too, about the fashion part. But, of course, I want everyone to love Knoxville as much as I do. Annette: bathrooms were fabulous. I’m not a professional photographer, so my pics didn’t do justice to the master bath, so I didn’t post. You, on the other hand, are a GREAT photog! Would love to have seen what you would have done with this.

By: Annette Winston

Annette Winston — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:15:32 +0000

What do the bathrooms look like?