Comments on: Decatur Street, You Make Me Sick!

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:58:20 +0000

I know. That’s what makes it so interesting! I need to go back and look at that map again when I get a moment.

The other Ponce Heights neighborhood streets were actually put in during the ’20s as an extension of Druid Hills. However, the full-fledged development didn’t happen until the late 1930s. That’s why there are some random 1920’s bungalows and American Square Houses amongst all the late 30s Tudor and Colonial American Small Houses.

By: karass

karass — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:33:39 +0000

That’s really interesting that a relatively short, slow-paced local street like Nelson Ferry was once an important connection to the Chattahoochee. I assumed that the “ferry” refered to some nearer and more minor body of water. Hard to imagine how the road went through the Venetian Pool area because there’s a steep dip in the landscape there. And now that road is totally overshadowed by Coventry to the north or Ponce to the south.

By: smalltowngal

smalltowngal — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:24:00 +0000

I venture to day that’s the case for a lot of us in the first place–not annoyance but, as you say, pride in the intricacies of our city. I remember thinking, during a sojourn of several years in the Midwest when I was much younger, how boring it was to have everything laid out on a predictable grid. Easy for strangers, maybe, but not very interesting. Except Minneapolis, where they use numbers to designate both the avenues and the streets. I’d never heard of doing that, and went around in circles for quite a while, thinking I’d found the rabbit hole at last.

By: mcmillend

mcmillend — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:28:42 +0000

well, shoals are just raised area of land in a river (like a sandbar), so I can imagine where the name “Flat Shoals” came from (though not sure of what river–South River?).

By: mcmillend

mcmillend — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:17:46 +0000

Thanks for the info about Ponce, I’ve always wondered the origin of the name here