Category Archives: Downtown

Time Ball or High Ball?

Posted on Sat 25 September 2021 by newtreeguy

Browsing through some old newspapers at the Library of Congress (site) and it turns out the New Years Ball Drop was an actual daily thing 120 years ago. There was one in New York and one in DC at the … Continue reading →

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Lapidus and Portman

Posted on Sat 9 March 2019 by newtreeguy

Found a little poem about what is now the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. Here’s Portman’s original design for the Peachtree Plaza Hotel, built as the tallest hotel in the world: The big pedestal held a half acre lake and one … Continue reading →

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The Loew’s Grand Fire

Posted on Sat 9 February 2019 by newtreeguy

Here’s the old beauty in 1972. It had been a long time since she showed first run Hollywood films, but Hollywood itself was pretty moribund at the time. See the nice array of shops surrounding the ground floor. Plentiful commercial … Continue reading →

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Broad Street Recognized

Posted on Sat 29 December 2018 by newtreeguy

Nice little write-up on the wonderful StreetsBlog featuring the newly-pedestrian-only section of Broad St. downtown. I remember back in the early 2000’s when the city first started closing it down for “Friday Wind Down”, they would fill the street with … Continue reading →

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See the old Underground one more time

Posted on Mon 26 March 2018 by newtreeguy

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 →

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How did Portman do it?

Posted on Sat 24 February 2018 by newtreeguy

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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Creative Loafings library in the old Rich’s Department store on south Peachtree

Posted on Thu 11 May 2017 by newtreeguy
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Lost on Spring Street

Posted on Fri 26 August 2016 by newtreeguy
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Asking too much?

Posted on Thu 25 August 2016 by newtreeguy
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Links for today – transit and Olympics

Posted on Tue 16 August 2016 by newtreeguy

Nice little write-up from Saporta Report about the state of MARTA train cars: MARTA’s trains are old. They’re to reach their lifespan in 2021. Each vehicle received a mid-life overhaul at some point between 2005 and 2008, a solicitation shows. … Continue reading →

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