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A panoramic view looking west from just above the Old Fourth Ward...   A colourful Old Fourth Ward by Richard Cawood, on Flickr

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this is the Midtown and downtown skylines as one taken from Buckhead last week. 

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Midtown's skyline is starting to fill in..... Atlanta Skyline by Georgia National Guard, on Flickr

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Mr.Marc Hamlet

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This photo was taken a couple of years ago. I don't know what street or area this is (even though the photo was taken by me :blush: ), but maybe one of you natives can help me out.

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^Well now that I see the GP Tower and 191 in the background, I know the area is DT, but I still don't know the street it was taken from.

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This photo was taken a couple of years ago. I don't know what street or area this is (even though the photo was taken by me :blush: ), but maybe one of you natives can help me out.

^Well now that I see the GP Tower and 191 in the background, I know the area is DT, but I still don't know the street it was taken from.

Not really a native but I can help. Looks like MLK Blvd. near Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome.

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Andrea Burg

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This photo was taken a couple of years ago. I don't know what street or area this is (even though the photo was taken by me :blush: ), but maybe one of you natives can help me out.

Very cool shot, Hammett. One of the things I love about downtown is that it's timeless -- except for 191 peeking in on the corner, that's almost exactly the way things looked 35 years ago.

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Very cool shot, Hammett. One of the things I love about downtown is that it's timeless -- except for 191 peeking in on the corner, that's almost exactly the way things looked 35 years ago.

And, aside from it's odd shape, 191 looks like it's from an older era as well.

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Anyone know anything about the cream colored building in the center I believe its HUD offices. Is this the original facade? Ive always thought it looked really strange and sort of 70's.

Martinman, I don't know who's in there but yeah, that's the orginal facade. I think the building goes back to the late 50's or early 60's.

Not my cup of tea at all.

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Anyone know anything about the cream colored building in the center I believe its HUD offices. Is this the original facade? Ive always thought it looked really strange and sort of 70's.

When I was a kid, I believe it housed Atlanta Federal Savings. That would have been early to mid 60's. I always sorta liked it; those rounded concrete ribs look a little like whale bones, or so I thought when I was 10 years old.

AFS was "Home of the Thousand-aire", if I recall correctly. At that time, Five Points was the financial center of the South. This photo also shows the one-time home offices of Fulton Federal Savings (bulky, pinkish building between AFS and 191), Nat'l Bank of Georgia (over AFS right shoulder, once the city's tallest at 32 floors), and First Nat'l Bank of Atlanta (brown tower at far right, ecliipsed NBG to be tallest at 41 floors).

Once upon a time, this was a "big city" view that made my young heart beat faster as I walked north from Rich's toward Marietta Street.

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When I was a kid, I believe it housed Atlanta Federal Savings. That would have been early to mid 60's. I always sorta liked it; those rounded concrete ribs look a little like whale bones, or so I thought when I was 10 years old.

AFS was "Home of the Thousand-aire", if I recall correctly. At that time, Five Points was the financial center of the South. This photo also shows the one-time home offices of Fulton Federal Savings (bulky, pinkish building between AFS and 191), Nat'l Bank of Georgia (over AFS right shoulder, once the city's tallest at 32 floors), and First Nat'l Bank of Atlanta (brown tower at far right, ecliipsed NBG to be tallest at 41 floors).

Once upon a time, this was a "big city" view that made my young heart beat faster as I walked north from Rich's toward Marietta Street.

Wow, great memories, mahanakorn! I remember the Thousand-aire ads, too, although it seemed like such a lofty sum that it could just as well have been a million. The Atlanta Federal building always reminded me of a pagoda, and as much as I love funky architecture from the 50s and 60s that one has never excited me.

Don't know if you remember when Roscoe Pickett had a penthouse on top of the Fulton National Bank -- he was one of the few people who lived in that part of downtown in those days. I think Dr. Goldstein had a penthouse on top of the Americana but that was about it.

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Don't know if you remember when Roscoe Pickett had a penthouse on top of the Fulton National Bank -- he was one of the few people who lived in that part of downtown in those days. I think Dr. Goldstein had a penthouse on top of the Americana but that was about it.

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You got me there, Andrea. Had to Google "Roscoe Pickett" and then only learned that he was first president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Assn and a delegate to the Republican Convention in 1960. And who was Dr. Goldstein? With no additional info, I can't shake the image of a Vincent Price-type character performing curious experiments in his penthouse lab-o-ratory (accent on -o-). Please tell me there was nothing nefarious going on up there.

I guess the silly ads of the era (e.g. Thousand-aire, Tillie the All-Time Teller) made a bigger impression on me than local luminaries like Pickett and Goldstein. :whistling:

Thanks for the pic, Hammett. All kinds of memories come bubbling to the surface.

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^Har! I'm not sure they would qualify as luminaries, mahanakorn, but they were pioneers of downtown highrise living. Dr. Goldstein was a dentist and he was also said to be a savvy real estate investor.

Sometimes I still hear Atlantans say, "I'm going to the Tillie" -- not that I would ever say that myself.

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