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Why would you buy your mattress anywhere else except in Decatur ?
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1745 Church St
Decatur, GA 30033
(404) 299-8500

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Second Annual Decatur Run with the Dogs

I found this on youtube, It's great, just watch it. Don't wait, watch it now.


The Decatur Bulldog Athletic Booster Club (DBABC) sponsored its 2nd Annual 5K Frostbite Race on January 5. 2008. The event helps support middle and high school athletics in Decatur, GA.

Decatur High School Homecoming Parade

Photo is from 1966 Indecatur showing homecoming parade on N. McDonough St. in front of Decatur High School.

The old Dekalb Locker Plant & Food Store Gone with the Wind.

Decatur's old Dekalb Locker Plant & Food Store building has been torn down.

Vintage Ad from Decatur High Schools 1961 Indecatur

S. McDonough St. looking towards Downtown Decatur

Street Scene of S. McDonough St.
Photo dated Mar 08

Agnes Scott College

Spring is here at Agnes Scott College

THE CANDLER HOTEL - DECATUR, GA.

Vintage postcard of The Candler Hotel.
Located at the corner of E. Ponce de Leon Ave. &
Church St.

WATCH OUT, HERE COME THE COPS

DECATUR POLICE CAR

I liked them when they were all black with white letters with a red light on top.

Now all Police cars look the same just the city name is different.

CAKES & ALE RESTAURANT-BAR

Here is what Cakes & Ale has to say:

“Cakes & Ale is a new restaurant in Decatur offering a tempting mix of food, drink and casual ambiance. A tribute to some of the best gastronomic things in life, the restaurant name was inspired by a line in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Cakes & Ale diners can expect an eclectic, seasonal menu featuring only the freshest organic ingredients, non-endangered fish and the highest quality meats. For those diners who recognize that fresh, unfussy food must take center stage and be enjoyed in a casual, unpretentious atmosphere; Cakes & Ale should not be missed.”


Cakes & Ale
404-377-7994
254 W. Ponce de Leon Ave.
Decatur, GA 30030

Decatur High School with out the old Auditorium

The old Decatur High School Auditorium is now only a memory

An inside souce from Decatur High School, tells me they did save the two large concrete DHS letters that were on both sides of the front entrance, and they plan to use them somewhere on the grounds when the new buildings are built.
And also they saved the original Decatur High School emblem from the original basketball court floor and they will put it in the new Auditorium floor.

Decatur Travel Agency

This is another one of my art photos.

Decatur Travel is a full service, leisure travel agency. They are located in downtown Decatur, GA at 308 West Ponce de Leon Ave. Suite E, ZIP code 30030. Telephone number is (404)373 9493, and their in-bound WATS is (800)969-4754. And, yes, they have been in Decatur for the past 25 years.

Corner of S. McDonough St & W. College Ave.

In the 1960's WINKLER GULF SERVICE station sat on this corner.

This Gulf Station photo was like Winkler's Gulf Service Station. Most of the Gulf Service Stations were built the same.

"To Tell The TRUTH"

This kid looks like he should to be the TV show
"TO TELL THE TRUTH"

Growing up in the small town of Decatur, GA.
I spent many days roaming downtown Decatur, GA. visiting all the stores, the hobby shop to buy model cars, F.W. Woolworth 5 & 10 cent store for a toy, even eat lunch at the counter and order toasted chopped ham sandwich and a coca-cola, then pop a balloon to try and get a free banana split, then play around the Court House, then go to the show at The Decatur Theatre and get a box of popcorn and a coke & candy bar.
Then watch a double feature movie.
Afterwards head home pretending I was the star of the movie I just watched and at the same time hand out movie flyers for The Decatur Theatre ( a part time job that paid me two free passes).
Then cutting through Belk-Gallant store getting my polaroid picture taken, to give to my parents so it would make them want to buy a camera, and it did, but my Dad bought one, but not from Belks, then on my walk home I would cut through Agnes Scott College to look at the girls, then arrive at my home on E. Davis St. just in time to watch Superman.

signed
Dennis Whitefield

Will the real Dennis Whitefield please stand up.



Panelists Orson Bean, Tom Poston and Kitty Carlisle and others along with bow-tied host Bud Collier in the original To Tell the Truth were perfectly cast to make this simple show work. I wonder which one would have guessed me.


Photo circa 1962

Rainy Night in Decatur

The Fairview Building Office Suites & Taqueria del Sol.

W. Ponce de Leon Ave.
Decatur, GA.

Masonic Temple Building later became Scott's Pharmacy

This was one of the popular downtown drugstores, Scott's Pharmacy at Sycamore and McDonough, was a inviting place for an ice cream soda on a hot afternoon downtown or after an evening movie at The Decatur Theatre.
Photo is from the collection of Mrs J. O. Bowen Jr.

circa 1940's

But before it was Scott's Pharmacy it was Decatur's Masonic Temple Building.
this postcard is cira 1914.

Sweet Melissa's

Sweet Melissa's Restaurant & Catering Co.
127 E. Court Sq.
Decatur, GA.

Cafe Alsace on E Ponce de Leon, Decatur, GA

Cafe Alsace
121 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.
Decatur, GA.

Next Stop...Decatur's calling card.

Save this card for next years April Fools Day.

Hang this over your bar Decatur CD ( I mean your cd rack)

I may be new to the Blog scene about April Fools Day, but I can play this game also.

This is what Terra Mater Salon is thinking,
with free cd's for every customer.

Decatur High kids waitin' on the bell to ring , so they can go home.

The title sounds like a song.

I been a-waitin' in school all day long
a-waitin' on the bell to ring so I can go home
Throw my books on the table, pick up the telephone
"Hello, baby, let's get somethin' goin'"

Headin' down to the drugstore to get a soda pop
Throw a nickel in the jukebox, then we start to rock

..........My school gal baby, gonna tell ya some news
You sure look good in them baby-doll shoes

Well, it's a-one, two, a-pull off my shoes
Three, four, get out on the floor
Five, six, come get your kicks
Down on the corner of Lincoln and a-forty-six.

I can still see Ricky Nelson singing this at the end of
his parents TV show Ozzie & Harriet.
I bet Clark's Music Store sold out this Ricky Nelson 45
as soon it was released.


Photos from 1962 & 1967 indecatur's.

I do see a couple of hot cars.
Check out that Hot Rod in the top picture.

Decatur Lock & Key

Brick Store Pub was Adams Ladies Apparel Boutique in the 1960's

125 E. Court SQ.
Decatur, GA.

The Brass Chair Barber Shop

On your next trip to downtown Decatur from Avondale Estates, stop by and check out this Barber Shop, its located in the downtown area of Avondale, it's just a hop,skip & jump from downtown Decatur.
I stopped by to take some pictures of the place just as they were about to close and the owners daughter Lisa was leaving, and to my surprise she said would you like to take some pictures inside, I said you bet I do.
As you can see it's a nice looking Barber Shop, Lisa said her father Don Graves had been there 20 years, and she and her brother Donnie worked there also.
So stop by and check it out and maybe get a hair-cut.
Tell them Next Stop...Decatur sent you.

Thanks Lisa for letting me take a few pictures.

COLONIAL STORES - A Mark of Quality Foods

This Colonial store was on Clairmont Ave. just down from the back side of the old court house.
If it was there now it would be across the street from The Holiday Inn.

Photo is from 1956 Indecatur.


Colonial Store
Decatur, GA.

Decatur's City Wide Cab Co. then & now Las Brasas

Old ad from 1956 indecatur.
for Decatur Co-Op Cabs
This was also at the same location.



City Wide Cab Co. photo is circa 1982


310 E. Howard St.
Decatur, GA.

A statue of Stephen Decatur to be added atop of Decatur's historic Courthouse

Some fantastic news about the Old Courthouse.
Stephen Decatur statue to be added atop historic courthouse.

read all about it over at Indecatur

That will be great, I can't wait. I just can't
imagine that size, 150 to 200 ft. tall.

Wait just a minute, what's todays date ?

decatur cd to expand into Terra Mater Salon

Decatur cd to expand and might serve beer.
as reported by Decatur Metro

Glennwood School in Decatur, GA. circa 1930's

These are remarkable pictures of Glennwood School in Decatur, GA. in the 1930's . These are right out of my Moms scrapbook, also are her class pictures, arrow marks her.
Looking at these pictures you can see how the kids dressed for that time.
Look at that ivy growing on the school.

Glennwood is the oldest school in the City of Decatur and one of the four oldest in DeKalb County still in operation today. It opened in 1913 on property the city acquired from the heirs of Thomas Glenn. The site was on the outskirts of town, bordering an area known as "Glenn's Woods" (now Glennwood Estates). In the school's first years, older boys were given a choice of attending study hall or helping to clear brush as men felled trees on what was to become the playfield. From 1913 to 1915 the building served as Decatur's high school. In 1915 Glennwood, with an enrollment of 250 students, became Decatur's only elementary school, serving grades one through seven. The Glennwood PTA was founded that same year.

During Glennwood's first decades, students and teachers either walked or rode the trolley, which turned around at the end of its line across the street from the school. As times changed and parents began driving their children to school in the 1950s, a semicircular driveway was installed to ease traffic along Ponce De Leon Avenue. The school's library was established in the mid-1940s. In 1949 a new wing, housing more classrooms and an auditorium, was added on the west end of the building. The school got its first intercom system in 1951 - a novelty that thrilled students and teachers alike. In 1961, after raising money through suppers at the school, the PTA funded the addition of a playground blacktop.