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Atlanta streetcar, 1910. Pay-as-you-enter cars were being introduced at the time. Streetcars originally operated in Atlanta downtown and into the surrounding areas from 1871 until the final line's closure in 1949. The first such transportation began with horsecars in 1871, and electric streetcar service started in the 1880s. [1]
The name of the historic district comes from a previous name for Peachtree Street, one of the main roads in Atlanta. [2] Since early in the city's history, this corridor of Whitehall Street was considered a major retail center, [3] with the Atlanta Preservation Center calling it "Atlanta's commercial and retail core."
The Atlanta Streetcar (also known as the Downtown Loop) is a streetcar line in Atlanta, Georgia. Testing on the line began in summer 2014 [ 4 ] with passenger service beginning as scheduled on December 30, 2014.
The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant at 699 Ponce de Leon Avenue [2] in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia was the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company's southeastern US operations from 1915 to 1942. As a result of good sales in Atlanta, and a desire to decentralize production, Ford established a combined assembly, sales ...
In 1925, he closed the doors to his factory. A total of 1,800 cars are believed to have been made with the majority of them being sold in Atlanta and other parts of Georgia. [2] George Hanson then turned to the manufacture of baby nursing bottles and returned to Atlanta in the mid-1930s to become a life insurance agent. [1] He died in 1940 at ...
Chasing Classic Cars is a US television documentary series presented by Wayne Carini [1] of F-40 Motorsports [2] and produced by Clint Stinchcomb. [3] It looks at classic cars from all eras, focusing on finding and getting cars running, with the option of restoration and a likely sale.
Vehicle inventory in the front lot The dealership as of February 2011 The front lot as of January 2012 Rambler vehicles, surrounded by overgrown vegetation. Collier Motors is a private car dealership primarily selling cars built by American Motors Corporation (AMC) as well as with other makes.
Mechanicsville is a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It sits just south of downtown Atlanta. The neighborhood is bounded by: I-20 on the north, across which is Castleberry Hill and Downtown Atlanta; the I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector on the east, across which are Summerhill and Peoplestown; the Southern Railway lines on the southwest, across ...