Ghostlanta :: Sawed-Off Skyscraper

Savannah banks off its historic buildings, but Atlanta builds and destroys them like Legos. Even buildings like the Dome become history if we can afford a better one, which makes Hillyer Trust Company's history even funnier.

1913

In 1911, The Hillyer Trust Company building was 8 stories high and the tallest, thinnest skyscraper in the US. By 1978, weather damage and underground blasting for MARTA had it swaying in the wind. But instead of burning or imploding like most ATL buildings die, they just razed the top six floors and put a bar in the basement vault.

2008

Photobombed by a bulldozer for the streetcar.

1913 and 2008 images Atlanta Time Machine.

MOTIVATiON VIDEO :: All Night

Cyhi The Prynce - All Night



Higher.

(A)pocrypha :: Antique TurnUp

How your grandparents got loose.

1968 :: But it ain't a strip club if they aint showin...

1966 :: Later known as Charles Disco.

1968

1976 :: The grandfather of Benihana problems.

1976

Images Atlanta Time Machine.