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The name Garden & Gun is explained as an "inside reference to a popular 1970s Charleston disco called the Garden and Gun Club." [1] It is also explained as a metaphor for the South's land, people, lifestyle, and heritage. [5] Garden & Gun created the Made in the South Awards in 2010 to celebrate and encourage Southern craftsmanship and to ...
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"Chicago of the South" "Convention City of Dixie Land" An 1859 industrial journal was among the first to note nicknames for Atlanta, Georgia: [1]. An orator claimed for it the signification of "a city among the hills" while a writer has declared that it was the opposite of "rus in urbe" ("country in the city") and proclaimed it "'the city in the woods".
[1] [3] The Garden and Gun club was well known in the city for its openness, breaking down barriers and allowing people of different classes and identities to mingle. [4] All members were required to agree to membership rules which began "This is a mixed club". [5] Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun was named in reference to the club. [6]
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During the early 1980s, the 688 Club was the primary place for up-and-coming bands from Atlanta and Athens, Georgia, to get noticed. Among the groups that regularly played there were R.E.M. and Pylon. The club spun off an independent record label, 688 Records, [10] which survived for a time even after 688 Club had closed. [11]
Southern Railway's 1918 facility, named Peachtree Station but known locally as Brookwood Station, has been Atlanta's only long-distance passenger rail stop since 1970. Amtrak took over Southern's Crescent route in the '70s, which (as of 2015) continues to operate between New Orleans and N.Y. City .
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum say getting guns and drugs out of the hands of criminals and gang members is a top priority for police. Gun violence in Atlanta: Chief gives report card on ...