If anyone loves a good mystery, it’s me. But I want my mysteries solved within one and a half, maybe two hours (allowing for commercial or bathroom breaks). That’s why, readers, I NEED YOUR HELP with the things that have been keeping me up at night (besides ghosts and booty jams).
Riddle me this:
1. What is going on with Buddy’s extreme wine/convenience store makeover? What is the intended outcome in removing their iconic, decayed lettering?
2. What is “The Phoenix, the newspaper of Underground Atlanta”? This was in the back flap of a recipe book called Georgia Receipts that was at Antique Factory ages ago. (Here is the cover.)
3. What is the proper protocol for a “code red in zone 4″? This video about rules and regulations at the Fulton County jail cuts off entirely too soon! All the rules outlined in this first segment are common sense – I try to do these things every day in my own home! But what are acceptable manners during a prison break?
4. What is “Infoplan” and who is Jo Parks? There are all these photos in the Lane Brothers collection at GSU labeled with both those names but I can’t figure out what Infoplan could be besides a television show run by Atlanta’s boosters and hosted by an older lady named Jo Parks. In many of the photos, Ms. Parks is demonstrating colorful patterned textiles.
1967
5. Where can I see more of Mrs. Lillian Brown Head’s beautiful hats? I can’t wait until the National Museum of African-American History and Culture opens in 2012 to see her Polaris hat – and her obituary references a 1987 AJC article about her that I can’t find anywhere! Mrs. Head’s fashion talents seem boundless. I want to see more of her creations.
Hyatt Regency Polaris hat
6. How soon can I retire, move back to the suburbs, and take conductorcising classes?
Tags: buddy's, code red, conductorcising, infoplan, jo parks, the phoenix
You’ve been on a tear this week — enjoyed it all. “The Phoenix” is an interesting question. I wonder if Norman Shavin or the Capricorn Corporation were involved somehow? They produced much of the ephemera I’ve got from the early 70′s. On a map I’ve got of the original incarnation of Underground there is a “Phoenix Printers” listed on the lower level at the east end of Alabama Street (next to where Johnny Rockets is now). Don’t see any other references, though.
I’m gonna miss those Buddy’s letters. Iconic indeed
I have a number of Underground Atlanta histories and none of them mention the Phoenix. It’s impossible to search for anything Atlanta-related using the word “phoenix” though! If the paper used wood type, then it would be much older than the ’70s…but the flap just says “in the collection of” so a ’70s paper could have owned the wood type from some other use, as a collector’s item of some sort. All I know is I can’t rest until I see a copy!
I must have a Polaris hat! That is simply fabulous!
There are many secrets in our world