August 2011
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"Lively little corner of Midtown" (1998)
Buckhead restaurateur developing cluster of stores and eateries at Piedmont and 10th Street.
Buckhead restaurateur George Rohrig is bringing his formula for success to Midtown.
“I’ve always used restaurants to bring people into the area, then developed retail shops around them,” said Rohrig, who opened a second location of his popular Buckhead sushi restaurant,...
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"The Castle: A decaying beauty" (1997)
“I’m curious about the house across the street from the Arts Center train station,” said Atlanta resident Evette Sneed. “It was a home at one time and is connected behind the AT&T building. I’d also like to know about the family who lived there.”
The house in question is now called the Castle but was originally named Fort Peace by its builder-owner,...
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Midtown Local Historic District →
A wonderfully exhaustive history of the Historic Midtown neighborhood, located south of 10th Street and north of Ponce de Leon Avenue,
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A Séance for Scarlett’s Mom by Boyd Lewis |... →
Atlanta’s Peachtree at 10th Street had become the porno palace and whorehouse of the Southeast by 1977. Ten of the city’s 17 sex bathhouses and yellow-front massage parlors were found within two blocks of the intersection. The Male Castle featured “love wrestling.” And Lord knows what went on in the sticky, overheated confines of Wild Mary’s, The Love Machine, Madame’s Love Parlour and the Go Go...
fairway-frank asked: I love this blog! As a member of a very old Atlanta family I love historic pictures and facts about Atlanta. I have a couple of old pictures of my own, in fact. This blog is fantastic!
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Art and Play Revisited – The Nagouchi Playscapes... →
Walk along Atlanta’s Piedmont Avenue between 12th and 13th streets and look over towards Piedmont Park – you’ll see what might be a campsite for extra-terrestrials – on the top of a hill sit several large geometrical objects: an orange triangle, a blue and white tower, and several brightly colored cubes. But if you more closely, you won’t see any Martians, just kids and their parents…
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"Mixed-use project an apartment developer's...
Apartment developer John A. Williams has one great regret in his career —- demolishing the block known as Pershing Point on the northern edge of Midtown.
Up until the mid-1980s, Pershing Point was one of the most vibrant communities in Atlanta with 300 apartments in a half-dozen historic buildings with street-level grocery stores, a pharmacy, retail shops, restaurants and bars. They all sat...
