Finally! The old Echo Lounge space will be opening very, very soon as the East Atlanta Icehouse. Before you think to yourself, “Now that’s a stupid name!” like I did, know that the building actually was a storage shed for ice in the 1920s. That’s why it’s so ugly. The new venue hopes to have “variety” in its live musical acts, which I hope doesn’t translate to “crappy open mic nights.” Additionally, Icehouse will actually serve food, instead of just saying it does like Echo Lounge did so it could get a cheaper liquor license.
I just hope the name won’t be confusing and ultimately disappointing for diehard fans of the Australian ’80s band also called Icehouse!
Tags: east atlanta icehouse, echo lounge
…or, of course, Icehouse beer. (Mad props, though, for delivering that way rad pic of Icehouse, though!)
Know what I really dislike? It’s when real estate developers turn some old market building into condos and then name it something like” Such and Such Exchange”. For example, the old Farmer’s Hardware Building here in Athens is named “Farmer’s Exchange”. It just gets under my skin.
On the other hand, if they were explicit as to what exact type of “exchanges” took place at said location (i.e. Atlanta Icehouse) then I’d be a lot happier.
For example, can you imagine a real estate developer in , say, Charleston re-purposing (euphemism alert!) a portion of he public market and naming it, “Charles Street Slave Exchange Condominium Homes”?
Or that area of Moreland just south of I-20 from Little Five Points being renamed “Atlanta Crack-n-Whore Exchange Luxury Living”?
Hell, I’d buy one.
Guess I won’t post that link to my new blog, the glib diatribe exchange, after all…
That is the perfect blog name.
Wow. I thought I was the only person who thought of that band when I first heard the name. And I don’t even remember what they sound like.
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