Archive Atlanta

The story of the "Miss Atlanta" pageant coincides with the growth of Atlantic City's "Miss America".  Like all things Atlanta in the 1920s, this contest and the choosing of a ‘representative’ of our city, was tied with the marketing of and push to sell the Gate City to the rest of the country. The first Miss Atlanta was crowned in 1923 and this week, I am telling the earliest stories of the winners, the prizes and the history of the pageant. 
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This week’s mini episode is about public access television; the early history, its arrival in Atlanta with Cable Atlanta, its proponents (Access Atlanta), and it's most popular program, The American Music Show.
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This week we’re talking about Atlanta’s automobile history - a very fitting topic if there ever was one because Atlanta’s love affair with the car is still going strong in 2023 and we’ve been obsessed since they first hit the market at the turn of the 20th century. I'm sharing when the first auto appeared, the first auto dealers, the auto show, auto racing, Automobile Row and so much more.
 
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This week's mini is all about the New Deal in Atlanta; how this national history impacted Atlanta, what was built here with these federal funds, who did it employ, and what legacies can we still see today? Did you know Robert Woodruff saved the City of Atlanta of Atlanta from bankruptcy during the Great Depression? Or that Georgi Tech received the bulk of campus additions and construction? Listen to learn all of these things and more!
 
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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.
Links:
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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