While digging around for more information on Buford Highway after reading the Dr. Frank et al book I mentioned in the last post, I discovered the website for the Buford Highway Project. The site is still in beta mode and some links just say “coming soon”, but what is there is really fascinating. It will apparently be, one day, a photo essay and commentary on Buford Highway’s evolution. Just go and click around and read and look at the photos there so far. I though the project might be associated with this Healthy Places Research Group study on Buford Highway, but it’s just one guy doing this for fun.
I really wanted to find one of the commercials that used to air all the time when I was a kid for the Buford Highway Flea Market where a dozen people say, “Come shop for a bargain at the Buford Highway Flea Market,” in their native tongues. One of my friend could recite the whole commercial and we thought it was hilarious. The best I could find is this commercial for the Bangladesh Halal Meat and Grocery, also on Buford Highway.
Also, while poking around for Buford Highway-related stuff, I found the fairly new blog Mastering ATL by a digital media grad student studying the ecology of strip malls, of which Buford Highway has many.
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That Buford Highway site has been in beta form foreverrrrrr.
@1 – That Buford Highway site has been in beta form foreverrrrrr.
I’m afraid that would be my fault. I started the whole thing like 8 years ago doing all the design, writing, and photography. I moved, then moved back, then got overwhelmed, then got locked out of my server.
Excuses, excuses.
Anyways, I’ve recently had a match lit under my ass by a friend who wants to collaborate on a re-launch and we’re just getting started. I had previously shied away from restaurant reviews because of the constant openings and closings besides the overwhelming sheer number. But now we’re going to start with what you see on the site now, plus new openings and a back catalog of reviews of places which remain open. I hope for it to eventually be both a practical tool and the cultural site…and ultimately also a forum for the community itself.
I will definitely post again here on any incremental progress. Thanks for the post!
John Robinson
Ps- in the meantime I have a completely unrelated blog: http://blackcentury.net
oh christa, only you could unlock the mystery of the buford highway by design website. also, i will take this time to say i miss you THIIIIIIIS much!
There’s web site about food on Buford Highway you might want to check out:
http://eatbufordhighway.com/
This site was a big help when I researched my story about Buford Highway’s redesign. And the part about “improvised sidewalks?” Awesome.
You should ride anywhere in the car with Holden.
Yes, please djgnosis, get it going again!!
Thanks Christa and Thomas! I will certainly keep you up to date!
Why is it that when I look at that “Buford Highway” logo up top I feel like I’m either about to run off a cliff and experience a moment of suspended animation before falling, get blown up by a stick of ACME dynamite or get a boulder dropped on my head?