Ghostlanta :: Rich's Great Tree

RIP a long time ago to the Rich's Great Trees in downtown and Underground. This year it's the Macy's Artificial Tree in the Lenox Parking Lot.

1949

1960s

2012

Macy's is playing if they can parade giant balloons around NYC on Thanksgiving morning but can't put up a real pine tree in ATL Thanksgiving night without dropping it thru the roof of Lenox onto the tuxedos.

Crystal Bridge 2013

Images Atlanta Time Machine and Atlanta History Center

MOTIVATION MUZIK :: Birfday

YG ft Jeezy - Birfday



"If I was you, be smokin too."

(A)pocrypha :: Standing Peachtree

Atlanta rose from the ashes after it burned down, but it didn't just pop up from train tracks in the 1800s like the books say. The Creek and Cherokee Nations built Atlanta in the 1700s when the area between Bankhead and Buckhead was an intersection called Standing Peachtree.

When people make "Atlanta roads are terrible" jokes, it's because they paved over ancient Creek hunting trails. When people make "too many Peachtree Streets" jokes it's the colonists' fault for confusing peach trees with a giant pine tree that the Cherokee ritually lit on fire. And please stop making that joke because it expired when GPS was invented.

THROWBACK VIDEO :: Wanna Rob Screwww

Screwww - Wanna Rob Screwww


CPort riding muzik.
Free Screwww / RIP Bugga

(A)pocrypha :: New Coke

The secret about Coca Cola's Secret Recipe isn't that nobody knows it. It's that Coke is the only company in the US with access to de-alkalized coca leaves, so they could write the recipe on the wall at World of Coke and it wouldn't hurt business.

Recipe for Coca Cola ::

Fluid extract of coca: 3 drams USP
Citric acid: 3 oz
Caffeine: 1 oz
Sugar: 30
Water: 2.5 gal
Lime juice: 2 pints, 1 quart
Vanilla: 1 oz
Caramel: 1.5 oz

Speaking of business, Coke was invented to replace alcohol when Atlanta went dry in 1886. During the Great Depression, Coca-Cola Company bailed the City of Atlanta out of bankruptcy.

Boo Rossini - Coke a Cola Classic

MOTIVATION MUZIK :: Sound Good

TRE - Sound Good



"Me I spit the truth, don't nobody know me tho."

MOTIVATION MUZIK :: No Pressure

Young Jeezy - No Pressure ft Rich Homie Quan



"What you forgot where you from?
I said I dream of leavin there ery night, bitches you dumb?"

Ghostlanta :: Peachtree Plaza Lagoon

In 1977, Atlanta didn't have a real aquarium yet but we temporarily had the tallest high rise hotel in the world. With a lagoon in the atrium.

But it makes sense for a city that keeps burning down to have a water fetish.


1977 images Atlanta Time Machine.

PAN GEORGIA :: [MAC] Can't Take No Mo

FiChief - Can't Take No Mo



"Better find you somebody you can play wit
Tryna chump a nigga off, thought I wouldn't say shit."

Pan Georgia :: More than Atlanta. #404 #912 #706 #770 #678 #229 #478

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.