once upon a time
Atlanta
with 107 photos
Since the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the extraordinary publicity given the city by the world premiere of the motion picture, an increasing number of people have wanted to know more about Atlanta. The first part tells of the development of the city in its many phases; the second part locates and describes some of the principal points of interest.
The site is
concerned not only with the physical description of Atlanta, but with its past, its
historical buildings and monuments in the
city and in the neighborhood, and with
every kind of information useful to a citizen
of Atlanta or to the visitor. It covers
its metropolitan aspect, art and
education, industry and commerce, parks,
recreation, hotels, night clubs and theaters.
In the minds of many American citizens, tradition is the very essence of the South. They expect to find it both as a grace and a disaster, sometimes flowering as fine living and exquisite manners, sometimes wrapped like a vine about an entire community and strangling all the best energies of progress.
At first sight the tourist may see no tradition at all. All the bustle and clamor of this ever-changing city seem to take no account of the past, to make no terms with anything but modern ways and rapid production. This city of big stores, of smoking factories, of handsome modern residences, is truly a city of the modern South. Young as it is, Atlanta has a most dynamic history, swift, exciting, sometimes turbulent.
Text and images: Atlanta.
A City of the Modern South (1942)
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