Look what we turned up – an untagged/unlabeled photograph featuring the main entrance to Burt’s Place at the Omni International complex, circa 1980.
Via Jeff.Ford on Flickr
We’re all going to have to learn to deal with the fact that that marquee was a real thing! Maybe it’s archived at the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum?
Previously: The swing of things at Burt’s Place
American Period Furniture on Ponce (right next door to Atlanta Furs) is a bit unassuming in its recognition of whatever the upcoming holiday is, but we can always count on the pair of giant plush teddy bears propped up on Chippendale chairs to be tastefully festive, even before the Midtown holiday house has wrapped the first strand of colored lights on their urns.
For Valentine’s Day, the bears were holding red satin stuffed hearts in their laps.
Previously: It’s Christmas time in the city
Does anyone else feel like this city is disintegrating before our very eyes? At least the ice-eating dirt and gravel on all our major thoroughfares finally washed away, leaving us looking a little less like San Salvador. But still, every vertical surface is getting tagged over in the sloppiest, stupidest graffiti yet! Are these guys even trying anymore? Blech!
Oh, and is anyone else anticipating the moment when we find out Catlanta is all just a campaign for Dove Urban Refreshing Essences Body Mist? I certainly am!
If you want to see truly topical street art, may I suggest:
Poncey-Highland
Old Fourth Ward
There’s another Unseen Underground tour next Saturday (February 26), plus two during the Phoenix Flies festival! You now have absolutely no excuse to miss it.
Seriously, move fast – these things fill up.
UPDATE: Tour guide Jeff Morrison’s email address is here; contact him directly if you want to reserve a spot on any of the walks.
Previously: The endangered marine life of Overground Atlanta
Were you clever enough to get your Designing Women Live seats way ahead of time, before they sold out, or are you just now realizing that there IS such thing as Designing Women Live? Well, if you’re in the latter category, no worries – the Process Theatre just added another performance of its semi-annual fundraiser at 10:30 PM on Saturday. Reserve tickets, put on your finest jewel-toned ruched blouse, get a heaping cup of white wine at the concession stand, and enjoy episodes “Julia Gets Her Head Caught In a Fence” and “Blame It On New Orleans.” There’s still time to laissez les bons temps rouler – but not much.
Also, for those of you devotees who have caught the show the last couple of times, be warned that there’s a new Charlene this time around. Good luck under all this sold-out pressure, New Charlene!
OnStage Atlanta, 2597 North Decatur Road
The Mrs. Georgia pageant of 1968 was just like the Miss Georgia pageant of 1968, only with way more concealed arms and way more chafing dishes. SO MANY chafing dishes.
Lester Maddox gathered ’round Mrs. Augusta, Mrs. Atlanta, Mrs. Macon, Mrs. Savannah, Mrs. Golden Isles, Mrs. Rome, and Mrs. Athens to let the ladies show off how quickly and elegantly they could whip up an embellished cake and a chafing dish-based entree, design a unique place setting, and other wifely tasks – the winner taking home the title of Mrs. Georgia 1968.
Not to sound Episcopalian, but was anyone else a little disappointed by Mrs. Atlanta being such a show-off, cooking three things when everyone else just made two? I regret not getting the chance to see her tablescape, as only two or three place settings make the cut in the above clip. (more…)
For those of you not acquainted with the greeting card aisle of this special Cheshire Bridge retailer, you have one week left to learn what’s up and surprise your valentine with a truly unique sentiment, captured on yellowing cardstock.
They add to the merchandise but never shift out the old stuff – it’s a treasure trove of campy cards that probably go back to Poster Hut’s inception (prices not adjusted for inflation, either). They carry a lot by one greeting card company called Aquavision that was made in Baltimore. If you see anything by this brand (all dated 1984), purchase it immediately!
2175 Cheshire Bridge Road
We’ve mentioned here before how disappointed we are that AJC‘s beast beat was wrestled away from master animal kingdom journalist Mark Davis. Most of the local animal reporting duties seem to have fallen on Christian Boone, who does a fine job of explaining how a situation transpired (with a smirk), although he truly leaves something to be desired for those of us who want to get inside the mind of the subject animal. Case in point: the recent stories about the woman who tried to mail a puppy to Atlanta. Oh, what Mark Davis could have done with that one!
But just like our kudos for his hoarders coverage, we have to give it up to Boone for slipping in a Suddenly Susan allusion when he had the opportunity:
The network responsible for “Suddenly Susan” proves it hasn’t gained a sense of humor, firing the employee who posted this week’s viral sensation, the “What is the Internet?” clip.
That’s not even really an “opportunity,” but he seized it anyway!
We’re just relieved he didn’t slam Caroline in the City.
Previously: The new “trashy” media
How does this video ONLY have 67 views on YouTube? And how did it take until now, in 2011, for us to discover the perfect freestyle keyboard music for cruising around Downtown and Midtown?
Oh, wait’ll you see this drive-by of the Margaret Mitchell house – the music is even better in this one than the last!
We really mean it!
Previously: Like a virgin
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