Shop owner finds right fit in Crieve Hall - The Ledger
“You can catch me here every day, but you gotta call during the right 12-hour shift,” says the mechanic with the gray goatee and mustache who fled 12th Avenue South – decades before corporate profiteers and the generally chichi overran that... Right now Pat Emmett wants to jokingly inform this writer when it would be a good time to call back or drop back by. “You never know when I might change shifts,” he says, standing by impotent gas pumps. Pat laughs brightly at his own joke because this 5-foot-5, 170-pounder can be found tending to invoices, pounding the computer and lending an extra hand or two to the mechanics during every working shift at his business at 4801 Trousdale Drive. “We’re open Monday through Friday, 7-5:30, and 7-noon on Saturday,” explains Pat, whose Emmett Automotive has become a landmark on Trousdale not because it looks like anything other than what it is – a sprawling, three-bay garage and office... “We’re a landmark because we’ve been here a long time and a lot of people know us,” he says, pausing to grab the phone and answer “automotive. The speed limit drops as Trousdale rolls into Crieve Hall, the quiet, little neighborhood of tidy 1950s ranchers and often not-so-tidy and underemployed 63-year-old journalists. Source: www.tnledger.com
