Farragut chiropractor calls it a career
“I turned 70 last October,” he said with a laugh about why he retired. “You know, it’s never an easy decision, but I’d been kind of entertaining in the back of the mind for a couple years. It just seemed like the timing was correct, and it worked out.”
Retiring “is definitely a different environment after you do something for that long, and then you don’t,” said Lensgraf, a doctor of chiropractic. “It’s a transition, but so far, so good.”
Born and raised in East Tennessee, he has been in practice 41 years, of which 37 of those were in Farragut.
“I started in Farragut in 1988,” Lensgraf recalled.
Through the years, he had seen changes, as “the whole dynamics of the Town of Farragut is completely different.
“In the last 10 years, it has really changed, but even prior to that, it was changing rapidly,” he said.
“When I moved into that building [where his office is situated at the corner of Kingston Pike and Campbell Station Road, next door to Rick Terry Jewelry Designs], the only thing at that corner was that [Phillips 66] gas station across the street that they condemned,” Lensgraf said. “They ended up pulling up the tanks.”
When he first opened his clinic, he remembered the gas station was still operating.
“But, they had a problem because it was so hard to get in and out of there at that corner that they eventually said ‘enough is enough,’” he said, adding he thinks it closed in the early 1990s.
