I am born and raised in Atlanta. When the man spoke about the Fox and having it as an escape to relax and forget your troubles (paraphasing), I can't help but think, no for my relatives. It's funny how they can see their human needs, but not care or even feel that black people had those same human needs, if not more. I can't image any black person not needing an escape from the total bs that was our lives. My mother remembers when the Fox finally allowed Black people in the balcony. We volunteered for years there. My daughter was married in the Georgian Terrace Hotel. I love the history, but it really hurts that my history is parallel to it.
The staircase that runs along the side of the Fox Theater, at Ponce De Leon, was the entrance for Black people to reach the balcony, because they were not allowed to enter through the front of the building.
Surprisingly, I grew up in this City Too Busy to Hate, b1961 in Piedmont, culture had dispersed Jimcrow by time I was 8yo. I got to be on Tv5 Popeye Club, in Officer Don's peanut gallery. Mom didn't like that I had black friends. I thought she was foolish. Content of Character, not color of skin. Atlanta Metro is the least prejudice place I've ever lived.
Brings back many memories of Peachtree St. when I lived in Atlanta 1969 to1976. Visiting a girlfriend living with her father in the penthouse of Howell House apts. Next to Fox, concerts in the Fox, music at Electric Ballroom across the street and Hot Lanta around the corner on Ponce. Joining all the other young "hippies" between 10th and 14th. Drinks in the "flying saucer" atop the Hyatt Recency. As an insaller-repairman for Southern Bell working inside the Fox and on poles on Peachtree. Strip clubs and restaurants. A later girlfriend worked at Rich's and had a small apartment just off Peachtree near Brookwood R.R. station. Atlanta was a great place for a young guy!
There is no together, we as blacks live separate and on equal lives. What you have is some one tell the story and not the truth. As a black man who was born in this racist state white supremacy is the truth. And all I can say as the demographics shift in Georgia a lie can not stand. And when you wake up to the real truth it makes you angry for the lies not the truth. We was made to rebuild Atlanta. And it was a nightmare for the descendants of America chattel slavery
You need to bring up race in the middle of a documentary about a street? None of this has to do with Jim Crowe and race, but let’s make sure we add it into everything included the Easter bunny 🙄
@@hollywoodhenson5940 that was so in the 1950s, it’s not so now. You look at Atlanta and there’s a lot a rich, powerful, Black people. Channel that simmering frustration and anger into something useful rather than a pity party
I've always thought it was such a shame that fabulous old homes and buildings were ,for the most part, all torn down. How beautiful would the arcade look now? Or that grand crystal palace barber shop? Atl lost part of it's charm & it makes me 😥 sad.
We performed w GaTech Chorale (the Flying Dutchman cast scurried all over TheFox when rehearsing). My Virginia grandmother booked us into The Georgian Terrace, though our home was in buckhead/wieuca. (She didn't like her son in law, saying our urban adventure would be fun). I saw the artist formerly known as Prince perform his finale concert at TheFox. And saw Phantom of the Opera, 1 night before PTRR. Peachtree Street ALIVE for that event, I ran 2005-2014. Pitch-tree, the profuse pinetree sap that made boats waterproof. "Where Sears Used to Be" is a directional phrase is native Atlantans still employ. We have scattered, most still in Georgia. Southerners connect to place.
Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. The “Cola” comes from the kola nut (which contains caffeine, another stimulant). When Coca-Cola was invented, cocaine was legal and a common ingredient in medicines. People thought it was safe to use in small amounts.
Think about it Cain killed Abel It is written, Co dependence is killing us all if we abuse it! Our higher Power is our way out we can not overcome by our selfish ways!
Coca leaves are chewed in the Andes countries, Peru and Bolivia, and drinking tea too. In Peru, Hotels lobbies have coca leave tea free for guests. I drank it and fell nothing mood altering at all.
Sounds like distinction is is invited to the outskirts n borders of Atlanta once again. However, why not upgrade to the 3D printed versions offered by the printed farms outta Wellington, Fla.
Soooo ..... mentioning all those fires of old buildings in film. Pattern of development .... M.O. method of operation ... our local area a big corner of a main road developing corridor of the city. A large older building an elementary school actually much of the area attending, sat empty nearly 30 yrs no buyers which would have to destroy it bcz it would not meet code ie... cost more to fix than worth. Soooo .... the building all of sudden caught fire miraculous $$$ made available to remove it when a buyer ready to purchase came into now enough business traffic was going thru. A WalMart took its place.
Atlanta and the cities around metro Atlanta used to be a good place to live. They should have asked people who lived there back in the 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's. It was a different place to live. People were upstanding decent human beings and they worked hard. You used to get jobs and you retired from that company. For an example: Sears, JC Penny's, Riches, Ryder truck, sewing factorys. People took pride in their jobs. One of my dad's sister's work for Georgia power for years. She was the secretary for the vice president of Georgia Power. People could save money and was able to have pretty good credit back in those days. My great grandparent's and my grandparent's lived up around Atlanta until the 70's. My mother talks about how her and her younger sister went shopping in Atlanta. And yes we used to go see the lighting of the Christmas tree. Go to the Omni to see the circus or a concert. Go eat at the Varsity. I even went to the Capitol when I was in Stone Mountain Elementary school in the 70's. Go to a Braves game. It used to be fun, but not anymore. You couldn't do that today. It's ruined now.
96 Olympics RUINED my city. Yankees come from north of MD line. DamnYankees are ones who visit but never leave. "Yankees in Georgia! How did they evah git in?" 🥂Miss Pittypat
YES, I GREW UP IN HILLS PARK ABOUT 7 MILES UP MARIETTA RD. AS A CHILD I HAD TO RIDE THE STREETCARS TO GO DOWNTOWN TO PAY FOR BILL & THINGS, FOR MY MOTHER & HAD TO GO INTO THE BUILDING WHERE GOLFER MR. BOBBY JONES LAW OFFICE WAS. I REMEMBER SEEING HIM MANY TIMES BEFORE HE HAD TO WALK WITH A CANE, OF COURSE AS A YOUNG BOY, I DID NOT KNOW THE GAME OF GOLF AS WELL AS I DO NOW. TO DATE I HAVE PLAYED MANY OF THE OLD COURSES ,THAT HE PLAYED INCLUDING THE " OLD COURSE @ ST. ANDREWS SCOTLAND. I HAVE PLAYED 8 OR 9 TIMES & OTHERS IN IRELAND TOO. MR JONES WAS A VERY KIND MAN.
I have never been to Atlanta. Some people I know told me it is not very nice. My brother was diverted to Atlanta from Spain because of an huricane in Fl, placed in a hotel a couple days, he did not like it either.
"....named for the feminine version of Atlantis...." Ummmm, no. It's the feminine for the word ATLANTIC. LOL Obvious typo, and the narrator still read it LOL
The name Atlanta is NOT from the feminine form of Atlantis (don't see how that could even be a thing seeing as how Atlantis is a place (not even sure it was a REAL place) and not a person.). It's from the Western & Atlantic railroad. The Atlantic Ocean was named for Atlantis. The Western & Atlantic railroad was named for the Atlantic Ocean. Atlanta was named for the Western & Atlantic railroad. Way to drop the ball, PBS.
Atlanta is the feminine version of the term Atlantic, insinuating in it's name it's connection to the Atlantic ocean, as well as the name of the railroad that put the town there in the first place - Western & ATLANTIC Railroad
@@Thumper770 Wrong. It was named Atlanta for the feminine version of Atlantic, which was to insinuate the connection by rail to the sea - and the railroad that put the town there in the first place - Western & Atlantic RR
@@evan19935 Atlanta was called Terminus before it was called Atlanta. It was called Terminus becoase it ws the end of the line for the Western & Atlantic. The City was named after the railroad. Atlantis had nothing to do with it. I've lived here for 50 years. I think I know a little bit about it.
@@Thumper770 right, and then it was changed to Thatcher or Thrasher. Then, it was changed to marthasville, THEN it was changed to Atlanta - the feminine of the word Atlantic, emphasizing it's connection to the sea by rail - The Western & Atlantic RR
who were the builders of the cathedrals? i'm not asking for an architect. im asking who the builder was. this story doesn't add up....the populations were to small for this amount of construction to take place.
This was great. I’m glad there are productions like these that keep the history alive.
I am born and raised in Atlanta. When the man spoke about the Fox and having it as an escape to relax and forget your troubles (paraphasing), I can't help but think, no for my relatives. It's funny how they can see their human needs, but not care or even feel that black people had those same human needs, if not more. I can't image any black person not needing an escape from the total bs that was our lives. My mother remembers when the Fox finally allowed Black people in the balcony. We volunteered for years there. My daughter was married in the Georgian Terrace Hotel. I love the history, but it really hurts that my history is parallel to it.
The staircase that runs along the side of the Fox Theater, at Ponce De Leon, was the entrance for Black people to reach the balcony, because they were not allowed to enter through the front of the building.
I had an uncle who’s only time NOT sitting in the balcony at the Fox was at his niece’s high school graduation in 2004.
Surprisingly, I grew up in this City Too Busy to Hate, b1961 in Piedmont, culture had dispersed Jimcrow by time I was 8yo. I got to be on Tv5 Popeye Club, in Officer Don's peanut gallery. Mom didn't like that I had black friends. I thought she was foolish. Content of Character, not color of skin. Atlanta Metro is the least prejudice place I've ever lived.
Brings back many memories of Peachtree St. when I lived in Atlanta 1969 to1976. Visiting a girlfriend living with her father in the penthouse of Howell House apts. Next to Fox, concerts in the Fox, music at Electric Ballroom across the street and Hot Lanta around the corner on Ponce. Joining all the other young "hippies" between 10th and 14th. Drinks in the "flying saucer" atop the Hyatt Recency.
As an insaller-repairman for Southern Bell working inside the Fox and on poles on Peachtree.
Strip clubs and restaurants.
A later girlfriend worked at Rich's and had a small apartment just off Peachtree near Brookwood R.R. station.
Atlanta was a great place for a young guy!
It's a shame so many historic buildings have been torn down amd replaced over the years.
Modern times overrides it all at least that’s what the Indians were told.nothing stands in the way of progress u know this !
They need to take "Another Look" now, as this was a time capsule
After living in DC and Berkeley, I'm glad I came to Atlanta. Good to know it's history. God bless Atlanta.
I LOVE how it took time to discuss the Jim Crowe era and it’s lasting effects, but also those who rose above and came together.
There is no together, we as blacks live separate and on equal lives. What you have is some one tell the story and not the truth. As a black man who was born in this racist state white supremacy is the truth. And all I can say as the demographics shift in Georgia a lie can not stand. And when you wake up to the real truth it makes you angry for the lies not the truth. We was made to rebuild Atlanta. And it was a nightmare for the descendants of America chattel slavery
You need to bring up race in the middle of a documentary about a street? None of this has to do with Jim Crowe and race, but let’s make sure we add it into everything included the Easter bunny 🙄
@@hollywoodhenson5940 that was so in the 1950s, it’s not so now. You look at Atlanta and there’s a lot a rich, powerful, Black people. Channel that simmering frustration and anger into something useful rather than a pity party
I bet Frank's hangmen have offsprings that rioted atthe Nations Capitol on January 6.
@@hollywoodhenson5940 Agreed.
Ain’t a Peachtree on that street no more....
Outstanding docu! Ashame so much history of Atlanta's past has been lost by development. Also ashame that the Rich's Great Tree is no more...
Westminster Chorale always sang for Richs Great Tree.... I rode that Pig as a child, then again with my child before they took it to Lenox
thanks for the memories, well done,
I've always thought it was such a shame that fabulous old homes and buildings were ,for the most part, all torn down. How beautiful would the arcade look now? Or that grand crystal palace barber shop? Atl lost part of it's charm & it makes me 😥 sad.
The barbershop is still there. Just not in the same glory
Does anyone know what classical piano song is playing start at 43:37
We performed w GaTech Chorale (the Flying Dutchman cast scurried all over TheFox when rehearsing). My Virginia grandmother booked us into The Georgian Terrace, though our home was in buckhead/wieuca. (She didn't like her son in law, saying our urban adventure would be fun). I saw the artist formerly known as Prince perform his finale concert at TheFox. And saw Phantom of the Opera, 1 night before PTRR. Peachtree Street ALIVE for that event, I ran 2005-2014. Pitch-tree, the profuse pinetree sap that made boats waterproof. "Where Sears Used to Be" is a directional phrase is native Atlantans still employ. We have scattered, most still in Georgia. Southerners connect to place.
Tree lighting, pink pig, Christmas in the Atl.
10:40 he was just a talking about Atlanta, and said crime but cleaned it up quick ….?
They almost destroyed the Fox theater to build the ugliest building in Atlanta. I wish they’d destroy that thing.
Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. The “Cola” comes from the kola nut (which contains caffeine, another stimulant).
When Coca-Cola was invented, cocaine was legal and a common ingredient in medicines. People thought it was safe to use in small amounts.
Now it's dangerous in a heavy amount.
Think about it Cain killed Abel It is written, Co dependence is killing us all if we abuse it! Our higher Power is our way out we can not overcome by our selfish ways!
Coca leaves are chewed in the Andes countries, Peru and Bolivia, and drinking tea too. In Peru, Hotels lobbies have coca leave tea free for guests. I drank it and fell nothing mood altering at all.
Mr. Herdon was certainly a handsome man😊
I'm sure that war looked alot more different than depicted
Atlanta has lost a lot of its beautiful architecture....
Says who??
@@dstarkspp You’re a fool.
Blame it on that old idiot that said he enjoyed, and that agreed on doing it
Why take history classes when i can watch this video. 🙂
Same street Margaret Mitchell got killed on by a drunk driver on her way to the theater in 1949?
I just watched MM bio just before watching this, so yes, most likely, the bio said they were crossing the street going to the movies.
22:29 bookmark
I guess they brought back the street cars. ❤
Sounds like distinction is is invited to the outskirts n borders of Atlanta once again. However, why not upgrade to the 3D printed versions offered by the printed farms outta Wellington, Fla.
I’ve was born and raised in Ga. I never got to visit Atlanta. That was for rich people.
Haha we were not rich!!! Lockheed engineer raised daughters on a tight budget especially in 1971 recession when the 4th baby girl was born.
I remember the re-release of Gone With The Wind. My mother insisted I take kleenex with me...I said I don't need this, she said yes you will.
Soooo ..... mentioning all those fires of old buildings in film. Pattern of development .... M.O. method of operation ... our local area a big corner of a main road developing corridor of the city. A large older building an elementary school actually much of the area attending, sat empty nearly 30 yrs no buyers which would have to destroy it bcz it would not meet code ie... cost more to fix than worth. Soooo .... the building all of sudden caught fire miraculous $$$ made available to remove it when a buyer ready to purchase came into now enough business traffic was going thru. A WalMart took its place.
🤔 what happened to the indigenous?😞
Exterminated
Trail of Tears...
We are *still* here.
@decaturt-bird4142 Many went along what we know today as "the trail of tears". Some managed to stay. Some of us are still here today.
Atlanta and the cities around metro Atlanta used to be a good place to live. They should have asked people who lived there back in the 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's. It was a different place to live. People were upstanding decent human beings and they worked hard. You used to get jobs and you retired from that company. For an example: Sears, JC Penny's, Riches, Ryder truck, sewing factorys. People took pride in their jobs. One of my dad's sister's work for Georgia power for years. She was the secretary for the vice president of Georgia Power. People could save money and was able to have pretty good credit back in those days. My great grandparent's and my grandparent's lived up around Atlanta until the 70's. My mother talks about how her and her younger sister went shopping in Atlanta. And yes we used to go see the lighting of the Christmas tree. Go to the Omni to see the circus or a concert. Go eat at the Varsity. I even went to the Capitol when I was in Stone Mountain Elementary school in the 70's. Go to a Braves game. It used to be fun, but not anymore. You couldn't do that today. It's ruined now.
You know what, today is my birthday. Good energy.🤐
96 Olympics RUINED my city. Yankees come from north of MD line. DamnYankees are ones who visit but never leave. "Yankees in Georgia! How did they evah git in?" 🥂Miss Pittypat
YES, I GREW UP IN HILLS PARK ABOUT 7 MILES UP MARIETTA RD. AS A CHILD I HAD TO RIDE THE STREETCARS TO GO DOWNTOWN TO PAY FOR BILL & THINGS, FOR MY MOTHER & HAD TO GO INTO THE BUILDING WHERE GOLFER MR. BOBBY JONES LAW OFFICE WAS. I REMEMBER SEEING HIM MANY TIMES BEFORE HE HAD TO WALK WITH A CANE, OF COURSE AS A YOUNG BOY, I DID NOT KNOW THE GAME OF GOLF AS WELL AS I DO NOW. TO DATE I HAVE PLAYED MANY OF THE OLD COURSES ,THAT HE PLAYED INCLUDING THE " OLD COURSE @ ST. ANDREWS SCOTLAND. I HAVE PLAYED 8 OR 9 TIMES & OTHERS IN IRELAND TOO. MR JONES WAS A VERY KIND MAN.
I have never been to Atlanta. Some people I know told me it is not very nice. My brother was diverted to Atlanta from Spain because of an huricane in Fl, placed in a hotel a couple days, he did not like it either.
It has a certain demographic
Good. No one wants you here, or your idiot brother either.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic bro u racist asf😂😂
I've had all the money in the world three times...i had to give it back to keep the game going - Charles Manson
you forgot we were also called thrasherville.
Say what? Terminus, then 3yrs Marthaville, then Atlanta. Never thrasherville... nickname for the team perhaps?
"....named for the feminine version of Atlantis...." Ummmm, no. It's the feminine for the word ATLANTIC. LOL Obvious typo, and the narrator still read it LOL
The Broadway of the south
Tell them come try that shit now...blaccs are forever here, can’t take it away 🤷🏽♂️
Atl Clifford Peppers
A lot of mysterious fires over land plots 🔥 🤔
The name Atlanta is NOT from the feminine form of Atlantis (don't see how that could even be a thing seeing as how Atlantis is a place (not even sure it was a REAL place) and not a person.). It's from the Western & Atlantic railroad. The Atlantic Ocean was named for Atlantis. The Western & Atlantic railroad was named for the Atlantic Ocean. Atlanta was named for the Western & Atlantic railroad. Way to drop the ball, PBS.
Atlanta is the feminine version of the term Atlantic, insinuating in it's name it's connection to the Atlantic ocean, as well as the name of the railroad that put the town there in the first place - Western & ATLANTIC Railroad
Downtown was alive then; now it’s dead. Also today’s streetcar doesn’t go anywhere.
You obviously don't spend time in Atlanta. Downtown is quite vibrant, especially the nightlife.
I'm only 5 minutes in and there is so much that is factually wrong with this video.
For example.......?
@@areguapiri Well, for one thing, Atlanta wasn't named after the feminine of Atlantis. It was named for the Western and Atlantic railroad.
@@Thumper770 Wrong. It was named Atlanta for the feminine version of Atlantic, which was to insinuate the connection by rail to the sea - and the railroad that put the town there in the first place - Western & Atlantic RR
@@evan19935 Atlanta was called Terminus before it was called Atlanta. It was called Terminus becoase it ws the end of the line for the Western & Atlantic. The City was named after the railroad. Atlantis had nothing to do with it. I've lived here for 50 years. I think I know a little bit about it.
@@Thumper770 right, and then it was changed to Thatcher or Thrasher. Then, it was changed to marthasville, THEN it was changed to Atlanta - the feminine of the word Atlantic, emphasizing it's connection to the sea by rail - The Western & Atlantic RR
Those antiquitech buildings were already there, well before the 1800's. Small creek & settlers, Really? Founded, not built.
who were the builders of the cathedrals? i'm not asking for an architect. im asking who the builder was. this story doesn't add up....the populations were to small for this amount of construction to take place.