Comments on: Ponce @ Church circa 1982

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:27:34 +0000

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Square Table.

By: Udog

Udog — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:02:08 +0000

I was surprised no one commented on the two little ladies on the corner, Clarabelle and Jennifer Morrison from Mayberry. http://mayberry.wikia.com/wiki/Clarabelle_Morrison

By: Cuba Libre

Cuba Libre — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:31:24 +0000

I seriously just LOL’ed at this…well done!

By: cubalibre

cubalibre — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:31:30 +0000

Well, that, and the fact that Sherman pretty much burned down all the buildings that would now be deemed “historic”…

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:24:41 +0000

DM, thanks for publishing these photos.

Udog, thanks for sharing them with us. I would love to see any other street documentary type photos like this that you would care to share with us….and I imagine I’m not alone in saying that!

With your blessing, I’d love to put these up on the Atlanta Time Machine website, along with any other treasures you have tucked away! Thanks,

By: Rick Julian

Rick Julian — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:49:30 +0000

thanks for sharing the pictures and all of the details.

By: Udog

Udog — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:35:54 +0000

Actually, what we see today started in the 70′s. The Hotel block is pretty much as envisioned in the 1982 Downtown Development Plan. Many other parts of the plan were terrible and we are better off than if they had been built.

By: Udog

Udog — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:24:15 +0000

The Hotel Candler, sounds more elegant than Candler Hotel, had transitioned to apartments in it’s latter days, more like an SRO. Mostly low income. I don’t know the year it ceased to be a Hotel. Before it was sold to Pope & Land and demolished, it was owned by Decatur’s own Larry Morris, DHS football star, GT All American and 1963 MVP in the NFL championship game before there was a Super Bowl. It was built and owned by Walter Candler, son of Asa Candler, in 1929 and expanded in 1949. He later lived in the penthouse after he moved out of Lullwater at Emory.

The building next to Parker’s was Woolworths, later to become Peacock Office Supply. Next to Woolworths was the DeKalb Theater which closed in 1947 I think. For six years there were two movie theaters on the Square. The theater was converted into a J.C. Penney’s and later into the Hobby House so the Hobby House and theater was the same building. I don’t remember when the JCP closed.