Comments on: Old Atlanta postcards

By: Rusty’s blog postcard | Rusty's Blog

Rusty’s blog postcard | Rusty's Blog — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:24:43 +0000

[...] resemblance to the Atlanta postcard from 1945 I posted a scan of in a previous post is not [...]

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:43:56 +0000

Good call Steven. I'd never been to a Peach Drop, so that hadn't occurred to me. I went to peachdrop.com and sure enough found this image buried in an unlinkable Flash photo gallery.

By: Steven Averett

Steven Averett — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:00:41 +0000

I believe the white structure you are curious about is an earlier version of the one that towers over Underground Atlanta (the peach drops from it on New Year’s Eve). I could be wrong, but that’s what it looks like to me, and Underground was much more of a tourist attraction around the time of that postcard.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:48:39 +0000

Thanks Greg, yes, good catch, I read that too quickly and missed the part about work stopping and starting. Will update the post with a correction shortly.

It’s still interesting to me that they made a postcard with artists’ conceptions of what would be there and not what was actually there.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:45:04 +0000

Hey, Rusty. You were wondering about the thing that looks like Stone Mountain in the second “T” in Atlanta. It was, if I’m not mistaken, a sort of artist’s rendering of what the finished project at Stone Mountain would ultimately look like.

Also, the carving was actually started in 1923 and was done by Gutzon Borglum, the same guy who later went on to oversee the Mount Rushmore carvings. I think Lee’s head was unveiled in 1924 and carving came to a halt not long after that….until 1964. That’s what Wikipedia reports and what I’ve read elsewhere offline. I know you linked Wikipedia but maybe you looked too quickly?

Also of interest….here’s a postcard now for sale on ebay showing the artist’s conception that appears in the second “T” on your scanned postcard.

http://tinyurl.com/lyd4tt

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:21:48 +0000

Maybe the Stone Mountain carving on the 1945 postcard is placed there optimistically! And you know how it can be with these things – work is supposed to start “any day now,” and then 10 years later, still nothing.

I think we did actually see some jugglers at the Inman Park Festival, but I was looking thru my pictures and this is the closest I could find. Doesn’t mean I didn’t just miss snapping a photo of them, though.

By: Lain

Lain — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:48:38 +0000

The Wren’s Nest postcard is a little earlier than the 90s — pre-1985 for sure, but not too much earlier given the size of the big tree in front.

The house was that color for most of the 20th century. When our organization changed the colors back to their original 1884 colors , there was a big hullabaloo because it “had always been” gray on gray. To this day we still have people come in and complain that it’s never been the same since we changed the colors.

Great post, Rusty. I’ve got some old postcards (the oldest is from 1909) of the Wren’s Nest that you’ve inspired me to scan on in and upload.