Comments on: Clairemont Ave at Ponce circa 1956

By: FMFats

FMFats — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:09:48 +0000

Sole is in Edgewood and in November opened a second location in Atlantic Station.

By: Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:40:30 +0000

Don’t forget, as you are doing your holiday shopping, that Oakhurst still has a shoe store – One Step at a Time http://www.1stepatatime.net/index.html . Run by Decatur treasure – Charles Cope.

By: Udog

Udog — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:35:14 +0000

Ditto that. No. 2 Ponce.

By: Dave Kell

Dave Kell — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:41:40 +0000

Just to clarify what I meant Steve, I was referring to an electricity-powered bus with tires. The tracked trolleys were already gone when I was growing up, but some of the tracks were still in the streets. I used to have a map showing the two routes through Decatur, and I suspect some googling would turn up the image online, but I don’t have the time nor energy to do it right now.

Yes, Brent, the “poles” on top of the bus would sometimes jump off the lines, and the driver (using cussing under his breath) would have to get out and put them back in place.

My favorite memories as a kid was catching the bus up Ponce to the Ponce de Leon ballpark across from the Sears building to watch the Crackers play. I guess me and my buds were free-ranging kids, though that term had not been invented yet.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:08:41 +0000

Dave and Brent, I think you’re right. There was never a streetcar with tracks on Clairemont. There was the one that Dave remembers and the “South Decatur Line”, which came from downtown Atlanta, through Oakhurst and then through what is now the ASC campus.