TRAVEL Sunday Republican, July 2, 1995 Atlanta: Georgia's peach shines with history Continued from Page TI "Atlanta Constitution," over a century ago led the fight to go north for money to deliver Atlanta from the ravages of the Civil War, to develop industry and society. In the Atlanta of 1995, the cost of living and the weather have contributed to making it a popular destination. It's hot and humid in July and August only although, even then, because the city stands 1,165 feet above sea level, evenings are tolerable and the mornings help cool off the day where air doesn't dominate. i A half million new houses are under construction in this city and its suburbs. In the past year and a half, over 200,000 new homes have gone up.
Developers are confident that all will be sold. The economic climate is House prices are still reasonable and affordable. The average range is in the mid-hundred thousand, although there are also plenty of new developments rising a at a half million dollars per house, particularly in the northern outskirts of the city. Greater Atlanta is vast. Suburbs are widespread.
Neighboring Marietta and Roswell are independent towns, but considered part of the suburban area. Many other nearby pockets of towns not incorporated into Atlanta serve increasingly as bedroom communities. The expansion of MARTA, the efficient public transportation system, has assisted this development. Atlanta is experiencing one of the highest rates of growth in the country. Land has been plentiful and cheap, lending itself especially on the north side and out to the suburbs to the building of homes and country clubs, golf courses, swimming pools and tennis courts.
There are a good number of neighborhood tennis teams. The Rich and Famous This northern section of the particularly a very large number of homes of the 'wealthy. Stars of screen and sports have purchased there for relative peaceful anonymity. CEOs own homes there. architecture may be of the antebellum plantation type; or, more like, a mix of Italian, German, and French design.
In the 1920s, when Atlanta was really a pretty rich town, many of its residents traveled to Europe, returning with the latest in high fashion in dress and millinery, furniture and architecture. result, in the longer lasting area of house building, is an architecture that is unique and most interesting to view. The will find that almost every tour of Atlanta takes one through the wealthy West Paces Ferry Road area, or Buckhead, for a glimpse into how the famed other half resides. Business Among the many established and new businesses in this city are manufacturing and research, textiles, ceramics; engineering, civil, electric and mechanical; hospitals and medical centers, banks, insurance companies; and a growing number of corporate headquarters: UPS's world headquarters, Colgate-Palmolive, Georgia Pacific Paper Products, Delta Airlines; Home Deport; Ted Turner's CNN Center, Southfern Bell Telephone, The American Cancer Socicty, and of course Coca Cola, founded in 1890, born and bred in Atlanta! The new city is trying its best to be cosmopolitan and internalional, burying the "old boy," redneck image of the past. Some TV commercials, such as IBM, are even being presented in French.
Georgia, one of the original thirteen states, began as a penal colony. Prior to the Civil War, it was United States coastal cities that were the important cities; Atlanta was only a western frontier town, although it was beginning to figure largely in railroad activities. Founded in 1839 and originally named Terminus, it was to become a focal point of rail connection between Chattanooga and Savannah. During the war, it was a center for arms and medical supplies. The Confederacy was desperate to save Atlanta from total destruction, largely because of the railroad's importance.
It is notable that six nights after the capture of Atlanta, the Civil War, in which more Americans were killed than in all other US-involved wars combined, ran down. I found it also interesting to learn that, in the Civil War's massive burning and pillage of Atlanta, some shrines and buildings favored by Union General Sherman and his wife the orig- If you go: Continental Airlines, Delta, United and USAir all fly from Bradley into Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport International. If traveling by car, you'll find three Interstate highways intersect at Atlanta. Routes 75 and 85 cross the city. Below are useful telephone numbers for accommodations, tours and other visitor information: Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, for general and Olympics information: (404) 586-8407.
MARTA Public Transportation: 1- 800-344-5222. All major hotels have their own 800 numbers. For information: Georgia Bed Breakfast Council, (404) 873-4482 or 1-800-GHTANOW. Consult hotel concierges for tour arrangements and pickup. For a smaller, customized tour with excellent personalized service, call Atlanta Discovery Tours, (404) 667-1414.
inal Church of the Immaculate Conception is a good example were spared. The story reminded me of Chou Enlai's protection of certain cultural shrines beloved by him during the massive destruction during the Chinese Cultural Revolution a century later. Up to 1880, the Civil War's decimation largely remained. Most people were poor; there was no history of local achievement to speak of. The city's founding fathers had been eager to industrialize, but in order to do that they had to recruit Northerners with money.
Other southern cities were recreating their plantations and growing cotton; they did not like Yankees or Yankee interference. But Atlanta forged ahead, committing itself to industrial and social progress. Textile mills came south and opened their steam-powered factories along the rail lines. Sweet Auburn Both the white and the African-American communities of the city flourished in unprecedented fashion. The area around Auburn Street, still known today.
as "Sweet Auburn," was the carly center for the advancement of black social, political and economic success. From its beginnings in the 1800s, this had been a very upscale neighborhood. Particularly in the early 20th century, between 1913 and 1924, the area saw great business development. Atlanta Life Insurance, which today has assets of over $1 billion was founded here by. Alonzo Herndon, a former slave who rose to become one of the wealthiest black men in the United States; The Citizens Trust Bank for black Atlantans; and, in the '30s, "The Atlanta World," a notable daily newspaper.
The Royal Peaco*ck, a handsome nightclub, provided an elegant setting for black performers like Harry Belafonte. Along Butler Street were excellent restaurants, most of them started by local women. The YMCA was built, as was the Masonic Building. The NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had roots here. It was a time of racial harmony and political power for blacks that preceded the Civil Rights movement.
Sweet Auburn is host to several churches: Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Sr. preached and Mrs. King was the organist; Wheat Street Baptist. Church; the African Methodist Episcopal Church, founded by freed slaves. Nearby Booker T.
Washington High School was founded in 1924. This was the environment that nurtured the man who was to reshape this century's history of the South. Into this pleasant, secure atmosphere, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. His birth home at 501 Auburn Street is marked with a simple plaque: 1929-1968.
Dr. King's home was a very pleasant, well-appointed home furnished with the accountrements of middle-class life; wellfurnished, his siblings' and his rooms stocked with their baseball bats, games, and other stuff of childhood, the parlor, where "no child went unless invited for prayers, or to practice the piano." The piano his mother played, and that he practiced on, remains there. The dinner table in the dining room is set as his father liked it in his house where the daily meals were a gathering for nurturing, love and family sustainment. The house itself was built in 1895 at a cost of 500, quite substantial for that time. Today down Auburn Street is The King Center, the grounds Suitable for children? Union-News capsule movie reviews every Thursday include guides for parents on each film's contents A by BOSELY WILDER Sweet Auburn Auburn Street, birthplace of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. of which house Dr. King's tomb. The Center sponsors programs for non-violent social Currently, it operates 50 programs, including conferences, day care, workshops for adults and youngsters, musical events and drama. The National Park Service assists in the commemoration of the movement Martin Luther King Jr.
"M.L." as he is familiarly called worked to create. The Service has purchased many homes and sites along Auburn Street to found a National Park. The Service conducts daily tours. The refurbished homes continue to be rented out, at the same time as they help provide a wider audience with an understanding of carlier times. 1996 Olympics It's summer and flowers are in bloom.
What a beautiful city and one that is busy getting ready to host the 1996 Olympics. For the first time in history, a summer Olympics will take place on the Eastern Coast of the United States. Lighting of the Olympic Flame on July 19, 1996, will herald the opening of the XXVth Olympiad, the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games. More than 15,000 athletes and officials from 200 nations are expected to attend, and an estimated two million spectators for the 17 days of the Games. The present Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium holds but 48,700 spectators.
The new stadium is being built to seat 85,000 Olympic viewers, and is being funded by the Olympics itself, Ted Turner, and Fulton County taxpayers. A proposed huge park complex surrounding the stadium will be underwritten by local corporative money. Following the Olympics, the huge ovaloid structure will be "cut in half," leaving the northern section open to the lovely skyscape, and assuring that no paying customer will have to sit in the outfield (yes, Atlantans are optimistic that the nation's oncefavorite sport will be played there The transformed stadium will hold 40,000 fans. And no sports spectacle is DISCOUNT SAVE TO INSTANT PRICE QUOTES 01 Carnival. Royal Caribbean DEERWOOD TRAVEL Lie Bonded Since 1975 TOLL FREE WEGIEL TRAVEL TIPS TWA GETAWAY SPANISH HIGHLIGHTS 11 DAYS PKG.
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