Archive Atlanta

This week we're talking about Atlanta's shopping mall history - the first shopping center, the first enclosed, the first multi-story, where these properties stand today and so much more.

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Atlanta and alcohol have a long, sordid history. From the colony of Georgia banning ardent spirits in 1735, to Fulton County taking 5 extra years to actually celebrate Repeal Day, the story of temperance and Atlanta is a great one. Listen this week to hear the stories - well known and unknown - about the Prohibition in Atlanta.

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Prohibition in Atlanta

Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause

BackStory

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This week, I am sharing the history of the Model Railroad Club of Atlanta, when they were organized, where did they meet and what did they build, as well as the history of the hobby itself.

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This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Leila Yavari, who became the Chief Archivist of the Atlanta Baha’i Assembly in January of this year. In that short time, she’s learned so much about Atlanta’s earliest Baha’i history, including the people, places and events that make up the century of this city’s history. 

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This week we're covering the history of Georgia’s Governor’s Mansions - four official, one unofficial, spread over two different cities (Milledgeville and Atlanta). 

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The word teen or teenage today is part of our lexicon, but that wasn’t the case less than 100 years ago.  The post-World War II period in America was one of prosperity. Young adults didn’t have to go to work, high school attendance skyrocketed and teenagers developed their own culture - music, cars and clothes. This week, I am covering how Atlanta teens organized recreation spaces for themselves, often called Teen Taverns. 

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Inspired by the Greensboro, NC sit-ins of February 1960, the Atlanta Student Movement, led by the young men and women of Morehouse, Atlanta University, Clark College,  Interdenominational Theological Center, Morris Brown College and Spelman College, brought sit-ins, kneel-ins and boycotts to Atlanta.

This ushered in the transition between Atlanta’s “old guard” civil rights leaders and the younger, more progressive student leaders. It was inspiring to learn how the students of the Atlanta University Center organized and executed their plans and affected change and how the movement influenced the presidential race between Kennedy and Nixon.

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In this week’s mini episode, we’re talking about the Clermont Hotel, from its start as a high-end apartment in the Roaring 20s called Bonaventure Arms, to the infamous Clermont Lounge, to it’s demise and rebirth. This building is full of fascinating stories that you do not want to miss.

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Did you know College Park was first named Manchester? Or that it could have been named Attica, Minerva, The Colleges, Colegia, or Ledra? This week we're covering all of that history, through the airport expansion and even into College Park's contributions to Southern rap.

Georgia Trust Spring Ramble

Flight Path

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March is Women’s History Month, and researching women is my very favorite thing to do. So while I was brainstorming an episode idea, I realized I had this huge collection of women on my list whose stories were very short - in terms of research, not the length of their lives or quality of achievements. This week I have collected these shorter stories into one episode about three different women; Eliza Ann Grier, the first Black woman licensed to practice medicine in Georgia, Leah Crist Bush, the first woman in the South to graduate with a landscape architecture degree, and Nora Grainger Webb, who designed and built over 50 homes and 7 apartments in 1920s Atlanta.

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