Morning Metro: Hyrdration Volunteers Needed, Ponce Book, and a Road Map
Decatur Metro | March 8, 2012 | 9:36 am
- Oakhurst hydration station for Publix Marathon needs volunteers! [Be Active Decatur]
- Mary Mac’s beloved waitress to retire [Fox5]
- T’was crossover day in the GA Legislature [CL] with no regional transit agency in sight!
- Cool Beltline construction pics [Curbed]
- Book on historic Ponce de Leon Avenue released [Patch]
- MARTA begins building pedestrian bridge over GA 400 [ABC]
- Atlanta map circa 1946: More expressways thru business dists dammit! [ATL Urbanist]
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Kind of funny to see on that 1946 map how Decatur was pretty much the eastern extent of the metro area at the time and it looks like Buckhead was probably about as far north as you could go without being “in the sticks.”
Anyone know the origin of the term “sticks”? STG? Parker?
Don’t know.
guessing: “sticks” > wood> trees> forest beyond the city.
From a website quoting the Oxford English Dictionary:
The OED says: “g. the sticks: a remote, thinly populated, rural area; the backwoods; hence, in extended (freq. depreciatory) use, any area that is off the beaten track or thought to be provincial or unsophisticated; esp. in phr. in the sticks. orig. U.S.