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The famous Varsity 'V' sign as seen from the Downtown Connector. The Varsity is a restaurant chain in Atlanta, Georgia. [2] The main branch of the chain was the largest drive-in fast food restaurant in the world, [3] taking up two city blocks and accommodating up to 800 diners.
From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.
Metropolitan Parkway was once known as "Stewart Avenue", after one of the street's first inhabitants Andrew P. Stewart. The name was changed in 1997 [1] because of the area's red-light district reputation, especially for prostitution activity and crime. Despite the name change and some notable improvement since the 2000s, prostitution and crime ...
Rio Bravo Cantina was a Tex-Mex style Mexican restaurant serving the southern United States and Michigan from its opening in 1985 until its closure in 2004. [1] The company relaunched in August 2015, only to close again 18 months later.
The name is a reference to Five Points, which is the center of downtown Atlanta."Little" Five Points refers to the intersection at the center of the neighborhood. Two points are provided by Moreland Avenue (U.S. 23 and Georgia 42), which runs perfectly north/south, and forms the county line dividing Fulton and DeKalb.
Atlanta Marriott Marquis 265 Peachtree Center Avenue NE 169 m (554 ft) 52 floors 1985 AmericasMart Various Addresses Various Heights 1961, 1979, 1992, 2008 Truist Plaza 303 Peachtree Street NE 265 m (869 ft) 60 floors 1992 American Cancer Society Center 250 Williams Street NW 10 floors 1989
The Whitehall Street Retail Historic District is a historic district in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The district is centered on Peachtree Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and includes Broad, Forsyth, and Mitchell Streets. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The Hemphill Avenue neighborhood was until the late 1960s a multi-racial working-class neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia roughly bounded by 10th Street, Hemphill Avenue, North Avenue and Marietta Street. It contained homes, churches (including Ponders Street Baptist) and schools including the State Street school and J. Allen Couch Elementary School.