A busy store on a busy corner

Any city that attains any sort of momentum attracts interesting visitors…some famous, some not so much. And every visitor to Atlanta comes with a story and this week we were going to tell just such a visitor story…a pretty good one too. But that was all before we discovered Miss Fluffy Raffles.

Fluffy is not a name one just skips past without pausing to at least express, “What the heck?” And to no one’s surprise, there is a bit of a story attached with Miss Raffles. On the surface, it’s a story of a playful woman who for almost two weeks tweaked the collective noses of an entire city and became front-page news in the process.

On a different level, it’s a story about a people at the dawn of the 20th century. That time where the majority of Americans still lived in rural communities, mass communication took days, not minutes and the world did not move at the pace it does today. It’s a time we reminisce about in this week’s Stories of Atlanta.