East Atlanta History Lesson

[dsnation]

OK, how's this?


I have a really hard time trying to orient the photo. It seems like this is the place where the red brick car wash thing is at now, so it seems like it's taken from across Flat Shoals and the dudes on the left are right up at the point of the triangle of May / Flat Shoals. But it also seems like the two houses visible on May aren't there anymore - the one toward the left looks like it would be on one of the vacant lots there. And if you look at the lot now, there are what seem like former gas-pump islands, but they don't seem to match up with the layout of the station in the photo.

Thanks for sharing that photo, it's pretty incredible.  Orientation-wise, I think it might be on the other corner - where the Chiropractor/Body-shop thing next to Midway is.  I'm basing that on what appears to be a less-sharp curve than the triangle, but it really is hard to tell.

I don't think there's a sharp enough point on the other side, but like you say it's hard to tell. I'm going on the assumption that the white house in the back right is up on May (and that the whitish strip you see up there is the street), because that's the only thing that seems to make sense when I try to orient it. There has to be a street in front of and behind the gas station, right?

But if it's oriented south on Flat Shoals (which I think is what you're saying), shouldn't May go off to the left instead of the right?  Of course, if the lot where the Farmer's Market currently lives used to be a throughway (which is a distinct possibility), then my analysis is wrong.

I do see the white strip you're talking about, so I wonder if the photo isn't actually from Newton facing north towards May.  It really is disorienting trying to figure it out.

My thought is what you see in the foreground is Flat Shoals and Mr. Clarke is standing basically at the Farmer's Market lot / "Bakery" building next door (though maybe at somewhat of an odd / non-perpendicular angle). So the Village would be to your left and May is behind the station.

But if I could say any of that with certainty, I'd have figured this out a long time ago.

Oh!  Okay, I can see that now.  I was thinking May was in the foreground, but could totally see it the other way.

Looking at the maps at historicaerials.com, it looks like the service station was gone by 1955.  I wonder if there are old underground storage tanks there.

[JBB]

Looking at the maps at historicaerials.com, it looks like the service station was gone by 1955.  I wonder if there are old underground storage tanks there.

no... it's quite there... looks like the building was torn down and the new one built between the 1955 & 1960 photos

[Cap'n Ken]

Looking at the maps at historicaerials.com, it looks like the service station was gone by 1955.  I wonder if there are old underground storage tanks there.

no... it's quite there... looks like the building was torn down and the new one built between the 1955 & 1960 photos

I remember looking at the old aerial you mentioned and not being able to make out the building as a recognizable match. But I should go look again and at the historicaerials ones.

[Cap'n Ken]

I have a print of it hanging in my foyer, in fact (those images are actually quite large if you figure out how to get them big).

So, how do you get them big? At the Georgia's Virtual Vault you linked to, the maximum resolution appears to be 600x420 pixels.

So ... yeah I don't quite remember. It's possible that they have changed the site's code or I'd actually gotten the gigantor version someplace else. But it was about manipulating the code in the URL. I seem to remember it involves some application the archive used called MrSID - or that might have been someplace else as well.

I do have this and a bunch of other things saved somewhere if you're interested in this picture.

[Jack]

I have a print of it hanging in my foyer, in fact (those images are actually quite large if you figure out how to get them big).

So, how do you get them big? At the Georgia's Virtual Vault you linked to, the maximum resolution appears to be 600x420 pixels.

So ... yeah I don't quite remember. It's possible that they have changed the site's code or I'd actually gotten the gigantor version someplace else. But it was about manipulating the code in the URL. I seem to remember it involves some application the archive used called MrSID - or that might have been someplace else as well.

I do have this and a bunch of other things saved somewhere if you're interested in this picture.

I am interested. Could you maybe zip them and email them to me?

[Cap'n Ken]

I have a print of it hanging in my foyer, in fact (those images are actually quite large if you figure out how to get them big).

So, how do you get them big? At the Georgia's Virtual Vault you linked to, the maximum resolution appears to be 600x420 pixels.

So ... yeah I don't quite remember. It's possible that they have changed the site's code or I'd actually gotten the gigantor version someplace else. But it was about manipulating the code in the URL. I seem to remember it involves some application the archive used called MrSID - or that might have been someplace else as well.

I do have this and a bunch of other things saved somewhere if you're interested in this picture.

I am interested. Could you maybe zip them and email them to me?

Yeah, or I can put them up in a folder on the server here or something ... if I haven't done that already. Lemme dig around.

[Cap'n Ken]

Hmm, didn't find that image on the server, but I did find this:



A sure-fire winning subject for the Buzz History feature.

[notofsunnybrook]

I'll have to dig through some old photos at my parents.  My grandparents lived off Florida, grandmother was a teller at East Atlanta Bank, (Currently Flatiron), when she was 15 or 16. My uncle went to Whitefoord Elementary and I think he has pictures of the graduating class.  There should be a couple old photos of the village somewhere in there...

One of the next lessons will be about the bank.  Henry has some great photos and info about it.  Let me know if you have anything you'd like to add. I'm thinking I'll post around February 15.

[54 Pontiac]

I'll have to dig through some old photos at my parents.  My grandparents lived off Florida, grandmother was a teller at East Atlanta Bank, (Currently Flatiron), when she was 15 or 16. My uncle went to Whitefoord Elementary and I think he has pictures of the graduating class.  There should be a couple old photos of the village somewhere in there...

One of the next lessons will be about the bank.  Henry has some great photos and info about it.  Let me know if you have anything you'd like to add. I'm thinking I'll post around February 15.

I'm doing a short paper for my architecture class about the bank. Would love any information you or Henry have. Thanks!

[denise]

I don't remember that picture. You might like to look into what was around in East Atlanta before. The old A&P where the old Antique store was, there was Brown's drug store on Flat Shoals, East Atlanta drug store on Glenwood, of course the Madison Theater, a Sports store and a furniture store named Hodges I think on Glenwood, and the bank at the corner of Flat Shoals and Glenwood. The bank had a big clock on it. A dress shop, shoe store, and once a bakery and hot dog stand on Flat Shoals. So, there were a lot of different stores and shops in the past.

[Shivers]

Do you have any photo's taken in the village when you were growing up Denise?

[denise]

I doubt it, but right now all my old photos are packed back. In time I will look through them.  I do though remember things about the stores and such we went to.

[notofsunnybrook]

The 2nd EA History Lesson is up on the EACA site.  It's brief, but there are a few cool photos of the East Atlanta Bank from different directions on Flat Shoals. 

Captain, I have some information on the photo you posted at the beginning of this thread.  I'll be posting that to the site soon.  Stay tuned!

Also, anyone else have any topic ideas or places in EA you'd like to know about?

[Cap'n Ken]

Brief, but fantastic photos.

[meltco]

Cool! I look forward to the lesson on Chuck Norris.