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'''Tater Town''' was a nickname given term used when referring to a small neighborhood located just east of 9th Avenue, south of Langley Avenue, north and northeast of Underwood Avenue and west of the airport field. It included the Campus Heights area of Douglas Avenue, north to Airlane Drive, Tippin Avenue, Emily Street, Beaumont Road Drive, La Vista Drive, and others. The name was given when it was one of the northernmost neighborhoods areas in the city limits, before Scenic Heights, Eastgate, and several other neighborhoods communities had been developed.Evidently, it was once potato fields, and later an area where fruit and vegetable stands were set up so locals could both trade and make purchases without paying produce taxes.  Upon Soon after entering from 9th Avenue onto Douglas Avenue, one could for many years see Guy Finney's Garage on the left, and a sign on the right which read "Welcome To Tater Town" and underneath it written "V.V. Blackmon, Mayor". There was also once a Pentecostal church , the Bethany Church Of God pastored by Brother Wells, on the NE corner of Tippin and Douglas Avenues.Grady Malone also operated an automotive paint and body service in that area, and Walter Zweis owned a small engine repair shop on Emily Street.  

Both the commercialism commercial development and Christmas Eve, 1984 bombing of an abortion clinic OB/GYN office located near the SE corner of Tippin and Douglas Avenues seemed to forever change the tranquility of residential life in the western end of Tater Townthe previously mostly quiet neighborhood.