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green_amber) wrote2007-01-31 09:17 pm
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Atlanta
is Atlanta pretty? historical? worth visiting? near pretty stuff??
Or is it just another big southern city with lots of malls and freeways? (Yes I know it has the MLK stuff - but I'm more a scenery than a history buff..) I thought maybe given the Scarlett o'hara stuff it would all be delightfully old fashioned -- but it doesn't look like it on the websites..
Or is it just another big southern city with lots of malls and freeways? (Yes I know it has the MLK stuff - but I'm more a scenery than a history buff..) I thought maybe given the Scarlett o'hara stuff it would all be delightfully old fashioned -- but it doesn't look like it on the websites..
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Errr... remember the movie? Didn't it all burn down? ;)
My dad was offered a job in Atlanta in the early 80s, didn't accept it because he "didn't want his children growing up American". He has never been more right in his life.
Mind you he was also offered jobs in Grimsby and Southall at about the same time, and fortunately didn't accept them either. ;)
I was going to make a similar post about La Jolla, which looks like California's version of Bournemouth. ;)
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Still, I always liked it, and some bits are pretty. I like Callanwolde (http://www.callanwolde.org/) The Georgia countryside can be enormously pretty, especially in fall when the leaves turn. The High Museum has got a nice mix of stuff, if you're into art museums. And one doesn't need to be a buff of the American Civil War to enjoy a visit to Stone Mountain -- the view from the top of that granite sugarloaf alone is worth the price of admission. But only if you have no fear of heights -- the tram ride up is a bit of a gut wrench. I would avoid the touristy stuff, that's always been pretty cheesy.
But, there are quite a few malls and freeways if you wind up in the wrong spot. If you were looking for pretty and picturesque, I suspect Savannah is more the place to go.
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(Mind you, Jack Logan's bloody good and he's from that part of the world...)
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Of course, if you take a tour of Atlanta, someone from the Daughters of the Confederacy will blame the North. It's a lot like Dinesh D'Souza...
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This is based on being at a conference there about 10 years ago so it may have changed. I was sufficiently bored there on my day off that I watched Supernova at the cinema by CNN centre. Its one of the worst SF films I've ever paid money to see, but it was more interesting than central Atlanta.
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The other cool place I know about in Atlanta is Oakland Cemetery. I spent a happy morning exploring there and taking pictures.
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The first half of Nicola Griffith's novel The Blue Place is in Atlanta. Her Atlanta is vibrant and funky, definitely the kind of Atlanta you'd want to visit. But it could be just her being an excellent writer.