In the early 1970’s, the NBA, the ABA and an Atlanta sports franchise come together in this tale of what might have been. The stories of the history of Atlanta do not always have happy endings. Sometimes, try as one might, things just don’t work out. Such was the case in the early 1970s, when […]
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158 Days Shy
His decades-long, storied career nearing its end, a baseball legend finds himself in need of more time. . . and Atlanta comes to his aid. This week’s Stories of Atlanta examines a part of Atlanta’s history that may not be common knowledge to most Atlantans. The subject of our story was an athlete who many […]
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The Business of Survival
Atlanta has always been a city in a hurry. As far back as 1867, a Milledgeville newspaper observed that Atlantans lived fast, made money fast, spent it fast, and tore things down almost as quickly as they built them. Nearly 160 years later, not much has changed. Atlanta is a city defined by reinvention, where […]
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How Atlanta Rewrote the Old Money Playbook
Atlanta history following the Civil War, led to the adoption of The Phoenix as the city’s symbol for its rise from the war’s ashes, but the rebuilding didn’t stop there. With each passing decade, Atlanta has continued to rise. Yet unlike cities to the north, Atlanta didn’t have a class of wealthy industrialists to fund […]
