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Author Archives: newtreeguy
Atlanta Has Another Gifford Lecturer!
For the third time in 130 years, the Gifford Lecture will be given by an Atlantan. Emory philosopy professor Robert McCauley will give the lectures in 2020-2021 at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is the founding directory of … Continue reading
HENSE is so legit now
Oh, he had so many death-defying tags around town: rail bridges over The Connector, old warehouse roofs you could see from MARTA, etc. But now that he’s a “Real Artist” including the huge mural at 14th and Spring, he’s graduated … Continue reading
The Atlanta Sound, circa 1969
I love this Billy Joe Royal album from right in the middle of the string of hits he recorded from fellow-Atlantan Joe South’s songwriting. Undisputed classics like “Hush, hush, thought I heard you callin’ my name”, “I Never Promised You … Continue reading
Ann Taylor Boutwell, a remembrance
One of my favorite local historians died in August. I first noticed Ann when the Intown Paper still was going by zip-code editions and I think I saw her first in 30308. Each month, she would do a run down … Continue reading
Atlanta Airport keeps growing
Got to tour the airport grounds with Hannah Palmer, who’s new book Flight Path details the absorption of small towns like Mountain View. The house-by-house buyout through the early 1970’s cost some $350 million. The town would be to the … Continue reading
A bill from Olmsted for Druid Hills
The Library of Congress just released a clutch of Olmsted documents and there was a nice little Atlanta bit in there. I hoped for more, but this was nice. LOC link Joel Hurt had begun the buildout of Inman Park … Continue reading
Atlanta Tornado of 1975
March is a bad month for tornadoes in Atlanta and 1975 had one I’d never heard of. Sunday morning, March 24th a wicked little storm blew in from Alabama. Here are the spots it hit in Georgia A funnel cloud … Continue reading
Cool Ivan Allen archive
Just found a nice little archive of Ivan Allen related material at Georgia Tech. You can start here https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/omeka/ Inside is a large PDF scan of a newsclipping scrapbook he kept in the 1970’s with all kinds of urban space … Continue reading
See the old Underground one more time
You have one last chance to see the old Underground before WRS really starts updating it. Deer Bear Wolf is doing a show in the old Dante’s space and parts of the main Underground area around the old Micks http://www.deerbearwolf.com/news/2018/3/8/captain-hook-invades-underground-atlanta … Continue reading
How did Portman do it?
The recent passing of John Portman has led me to a lot of thinking about what parts of Atlanta he saved and what he could be said to have destroyed. Arguably, downtown would have completely turned into cement bunkers, surface … Continue reading
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