Archive Atlanta

By Victoria LemosHistory

Archive Atlanta episodes

June 28, 2024 Basketball
This week, we’re talking about basketball - from the invention of the game, when it arrived in Atlanta, who played it and where, and all the way into the story of our professional teams today.

Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta - and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
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12 min
June 21, 2024 WABE-FM
This week, we’re talking about an Atlanta radio icon - WABE-FM. Located at 90.1 on your radio dial, the station has a fascinating history that dates back to the 1940s. So this week, we’re talking about radio history, the educational radio movement, who funded the station here in Atlanta, who it was for and how it became the public radio institution that we know and love today.

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13 min
June 14, 2024 Atlanta Track Club + Peachtree Road Race
This week, in honor of the upcoming Peachtree Road Race, we are talking about the origin of the world’s largest 10K and the organization that sponsors it, the Atlanta Track Club.

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11 min
June 07, 2024 Introducing: Savory Stories
Surprise! Yes - I am still on the podcast break and I will be back officially on June 14th with fun new episodes, but while I’ve been gone I was a guest on another amazing Atlanta podcast, Savory Stories.
Savory Stories is a WABE podcast about Atlanta’s rich stories through the lens of cuisine and food history. It’s hosted by Chef Asata Reid and culinary historian Akila McConnell, and if Akila sounds familiar, she was a guest on Archive Atlanta way back in Episode 68 talking about Atlanta’s culinary history.
On this episode, we talked about the history and food, past and present, of the west side neighborhoods of Westview, West End and Cascade Heights. This is one of my favorite guest appearances and so I really wanted to get it on my podcast feed to share it with more people!
Culinary History of Atlanta
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36 min
May 10, 2024 Summer Break Announcement
Hey everyone! This week’s episode isn't really an episode, but instead a short update for my listeners.
As I do each year in May, I will be taking my podcast summer break, returning on Friday, June 14th. If you’ve been listening along every week, I hope you can be patient with me as I take this time to work on tons of new episodes, flesh out some new ideas, and work with new people on exciting interviews.
Even after 18 years in this city, I still find myself in places that I know nothing about. I cannot wait to learn about them and share their stories with you, hoping to spread the wonders that Atlanta holds.
Take one of my walking tours here!

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2 min
May 03, 2024 Vine City
This week, we’re talking about Vine City. This neighborhood just west of downtown Atlanta has SO much history, I struggled to fit it all in; from quarries, early German immigrants, to the largest nursery operation in the city, Black amusement parks, so many historic homes, and a prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement, and Dr. King - you do not want to miss this.

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18 min
April 26, 2024 Atlanta International Pop Festival
This week, I’m talking about Atlanta’s International Pop Festival, a concert held in July of 1969, the first of its kind in the South. And while it took place 20 miles south of Atlanta proper, everything about the festival was rooted in this city.
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9 min
April 19, 2024 Athos Menaboni
This week, we’re talking about Italian artist Athos Menaboni. In 1950, Time Magazine declared Menaboni the heir of James Audubon, because of his bird paintings that spanned over 150 different species. But this isn’t just a story about art and animals - it’s also a love story, a story about finding your calling after the age of 40, and the unsung roles of spouses or partners in someone’s success.

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14 min
April 12, 2024 Waffle House
This week, we’re talking about Waffle House. Opened in 1955, in Avondale Estates, we’re covering the two men that started it, the first locations, franchising, expansions, controversies and legal issues and even the Waffle House Index.
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16 min
April 05, 2024 Georgia State University
In 1911, Atlanta’s population was only 150,000 people and the idea of Commerce Schools was new - only two operated in the South; one at Louisiana State and the other at Washington and Lee. Georgia State was born from Georgia Tech’s idea of starting an evening school, was later part of UGA and fought hard to become an independent institution. In this episode we’re covering how that idea took shape, who was behind it, when did the names and locations change and how the school became what it is today.
Educating the Urban New South
Ground Crew
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14 min