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'''Tater Town''' was a nickname given 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 Drive, La Vista Drive, and others. The name was given when it was one of the northernmost areas in the city limits, before Scenic Heights, Eastgate, and several other communities had been developed.
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 on the NE corner of Tippin and Douglas Avenues.
At approximately the same time as the 1980's widening of Tippin Avenue and it's extension to behind the college, both Tippin and Douglas Avenues started to change from a residential to commercial district.