Here is a interesting story on a time capsule in Tulsa, OK -- It was Saturday, June 15th, 1957. As part of the semi-centennial celebrations taking place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, named Tulsarama!, citizens gathered around the southeast corner of the County Courthouse lawn to see the burial of a brand new gold and white 1957 Plymouth Belvedere.
The car as it was advertised then. Click on it for the larger version, which clearly sells it as a model that is ahead of its age.
The car was provided courtesy of the Plymouth Division of Chrysler and Tulsa Plymouth dealers Wilkerson Motor Company, Cox Motor Company. Vance Motor Company, Forster Riggs and Parrish-Clark. It was to be a time capsule of sorts, to be unearthed at Tulsa's centennial, on June 15th, 2007.
For pictures of the unearthing and thereafter, please click here.
Hey listen world you've gotta know
I'm cuttin loose and lettin' go
Who needs the worry and the strife
Life can be a ball now just followin' my life
clambake, gonna have a clambake
clambake, gonna have a clambake
Look for the brightest lights in town
That's where you'll find me hanging round
I've got this feeling to be free
I pick and choose the life I want
And that's the life for me
clambake, gonna have a clambake
clambake, gonna have a clambake
Mamma's little baby loves clambake, clambake
Mamma's little baby loves clambake too
Mamma's little baby loves clambake, clambake
Mamma's little baby loves clambake too
The other night,when I spotted Elvis Presley, he was appearing on the supermarket circuit to promote his special Reese's Peanut Butter & Banana Creme.
It was almost like old times, except there were no wacky Elvis movie sidekicks, preferably Will Hutchins and Joby Baker, in attendance, nor any of the surfeit of Jack Mullaney and Bill Bixby impersonators.
There were bananas over in Produce and peanut butter in economy jars.
I also gazed around the store for Shelley Fabares, Nancy Sinatra, Stella Stevens, and 'Scilla, but I think they may have split with Elvis. He didn't look like he wanted to talk about them.
The Jordanaires were outside in a '68 El Camino, trying on trusses.
I'm guessing.
I have no county-notarized evidence on that.
Just a hunch.
I follow Elvis. I would know.
So, anyway, I like the Peanut Butter & Banana Creme candy. It's based, obviously, on The King's unwavering devotion to fried p'nut butter and nanner sammiches.
If I were a meat eater, I'd be smacking in anticipation of that other Presley favorite making its way into Reese's Peanut Butter & Big Bottomless Bowl of Bacon
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Not many people know about this new store, we just want to get the word out.
Stop by and check us out.
Likerish is a new store in downtown Decatur and we are right between Greens and Chik-fil-A , 127 E.Trinty Place. Likerish is truly Organic Living At Its Best, we are an eco-friendly,organic and sustainable boutique that transforms, educates and designs. We offer many classes, unique gifts, books, home, baby and much, much more ! We have 20% off all classes if they sign up by 8-31-2011. Some of the classes we offer are knitting, sewing, floral, jewerly making, photograpy, and upholstery just to name a few. We also have a mean cinnamon sweet potato cream cheese vegan cupcake. Yum !
From Decatur Patch The conversion to Marriott Courtyard comes at a price to the City of Decatur. The makeover may cost the city as much as $32,000 in lost revenue from hotel-motel taxes.
Now owned by Atlanta-based Noble Investment Group, hotel General Manager Bert Haifley confirmed the hotel will close four months beginning Oct. 2.
He said when the hotel reopens in February, it will be among the most modern Marriott Courtyards in the country.
“It will have a refreshing business lobby and bistro concept that transforms into a trendy hip lounge area at night,” Haifley said. “Every single guest room will be completely renovated floor to ceiling. The hotel is going to make a dramatic statement.”
From Decatur Patch
Internet TV Firm Might Use Towne Cinema
Annony.tv Internet Broadcasting Network is asking for a conditional use permit from the Avondale City Commission.
By Ralph Ellis
A man who wants to turn the vacant Towne Cinema into a video production facility and soundstage will seek the go-ahead Monday night from the Avondale City Commission.
Shedrick R. Perro of Stone Mountain is asking for a conditional use permit from the city to use the building, which has not been used as a movie theater for years.
According to the application Perro filed, the space at 106 N. Avondale Road would be used mainly to film productions for Annony.tv Internet Broadcasting Network. The application says the network has “15 channels of structured media that range from entertainment, health, education and business.”
The space also would be used for film, music and digital entertainment; marketing and promotional services; and “live” cultural and family entertainment, such as plays, ballets, talk shows and movie premieres.
All productions would promote “positive family entertainment,” the papers state.
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From: http: decaturbbqfestival.com Mark your calendar for August 20, 2011, and don’t miss the 11th Annual Dekalb Medical Decatur Barbeque, Blues, & Bluegrass Festival, at Harmony Park in Decatur. The gates open at 4:00pm and there will be live music until 10:00pm. Kids 10 and under admitted free. Please note that no outside coolers will be permitted on the site.
MARTA's $700 Million Clifton Corridor Moves Closer To The Ballot
Project would expand MARTA rail through the Clifton corridor and link Lindbergh Center with Emory, the CDC, Decatur and Avondale Estates.
The $700 million Clifton Corridor MARTA route to Emory University cleared another hurdle on Monday, as metro Atlanta leaders agreed to include it on a massive, $6 billion list of transportation projects spread throughout the region.
The Clifton Corridor project would expand MARTA rail through the Clifton corridor and link Lindbergh Center with Emory, the CDC, Decatur and Avondale Estates.
Living Walls, The City Speaks, is a conference on street art and urbanism that took place in August 2010 in the city of Atlanta. The artwork of 36 influential street artists from around the world flooded the streets of Atlanta as part of a coordinated effort to engage the public via street art. Along with changing the urban landscape, the Living Walls conference set out to highlight a number of problems facing the city. Living Walls did not just showcase art, but also built a platform for much-needed dialogue in the city. The success of the event was so great that Living Walls is returning this year to take place in Atlanta, Ga and Albany, NY.
The idea behind Living Walls is to put the work of a very small subset of the population (street artists, graffiti writers, etc), people who actually interact with space, and people who spend their time in discourse about public space all under the same roof. Our intentions are simply to broadcast to the attendees a wide spectrum of ideas about public space, hoping that everyone leaves the event looking at the city, its walls, and how we interact with space differently.
Founded in 2009 by Monica Campana and Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi.
-- Living Walls Conference website is sponsored by Aint-bad, a quarterly art magazine focusing on images that discuss human existence, culture, and contemporary issues.
A store that sells beer growlers -- glass jugs used to carry brew from the store back home -- officially opened for business Friday in Avondale Estates.
Named The Beer Growler, of course, the store has 40 taps to dispense beer, ciders and craft sodas into 64- or 32-ounce jugs. Paul Saunders, one of three co-owners, said the Beer Growler in Avondale is the only place in Georgia selling 32-ounce growlers.
What exactly is a growler? This is how it's described in an email from Avondale Estates City Hall.
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Over at thedecaturminute Catherine has posted about Living Walls that feature Decatur and Atlanta. Best way to describe this is murals painted on the sides of buildings.
Check out her post @ thedecaturminute
Big news for Pete the Cat lovers from the Little Shop of Stories site. Congrats to James Dean and Eric Litwin on the Pete The Cats new book: Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: tom@thisischronicle.com August 3, 2011
Crossover Movement Arts Season Launch Sneak Peek Performance Opens Dance Company’s Breakout 2011-2012 Season
What: Crossover Movement Arts Season Launch Party and Performance When: Friday and Saturday, August 12-13, 8:00 p.m. (7:45 p.m. pre-show) Where: CORE Studios, 133 Sycamore Street, Decatur Who: Crossover Movement Arts Tickets: $10 at the door
Atlanta, GA. Crossover Movement Arts launches its 2011-12 season with a performance and party, Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13, 8:00 p.m. at CORE Studios. (Arrive by 7:45 to catch a special pre-show.) The evening will feature some favorites from Crossover Movement Arts’ 2010-2011 season and sneak previews of new works premiering in 2011-2012, all showcasing the company’s dynamic and muscular fusion of contemporary dance, Freestyle Poling, martial arts, performance art, experimental soundscapes, compelling artistic explorations, and playful, offbeat humor. The evening will also include a reception with light refreshments and a silent auction of items including a custom, signed Freestyle Poling pole and original origami by Crossover’s Sally O’Grady.
See below for season schedule.
“I am wildly excited about this season we’re about to launch,” says Artistic Director Blake Dalton. “It’s a real breakout year for our company. Crossover Movement Arts is creating unique works that vary dramatically in their scope, their physical landscape, and their relationship with the audience. We will dance this season with sledgehammers and railroads, soar through the air in the Historic Fourth Ward Park, softly draw lines in sand in the West End. You’ll find us while passing through the night at the Flux Festival or join us vaulting across the Decatur Square for some impromptu Freestyle Poling.”
Founded in 2005, Crossover Movement Arts’ 2011-2012 season is its fullest and most exciting yet, with seven shows already confirmed and several additional performances in the works. The season includes three original site-specific works commissioned by Art on the Beltline and created with partners including experimental jazz band Zentropy, dance presenting phenomenon Dance Truck, and The Wren’s Nest House and Museum. Crossover Movement Arts will tag-team perform with Zoetic Dance Ensemble in a shared venue at the 2011 Flux Festival in Castleberry Hill, and will collaborate with FrenetiCore Dance at the 2011 Houston Fringe Festival. In January, Crossover Movement Arts joins legendary spoken word poet and singer-songwriter Kodac Harrison for a performance at 7Stages. “We have the sincere privilege of great partners who inspire us,” says Dalton, “the working class arts heroes of Dance Truck, the intricate sounds of Zentropy, the historical roots of The Wren's Nest.”!
A collaborative company of movement artists interested in the unique work made possible by collaborations across disciplines and with artists of many backgrounds, Crossover Movement Arts will partner with many artists this season. Company members and guest artists, while united by their love of movement, each bring their own unique talents to the company’s creations: musical composition and performance, writing, acting, martial arts, carpentry, sculpture, and even the making of origami. “I am fortunate to have miraculously gathered such a talented and vibrant group of artists to embark on this creative, dynamic journey,” says Dalton. “I look forward to presenting this sneak peek of our very exciting season.”
On August 5, 2011, The Cook's Warehouse co-sponsored the kick-off luncheon for the Tons of Fun Fitness Challenge. www.tonsoffun.org Our owner, Mary Moore, helped Celebrity Chef Cat Cora and Executive Chef Holly Chute to prepare lunch for 100 guests at the Governor's Mansion. Ingredients from local farms were used by the chefs. After a fantastic lunch, the guest made their way to the back lawn of the mansion where a tree climbing activity was underway with area Boy & Girl Scouts. First Lady Deal took part in the tree climbing - we just watched from the shade!
** COOKIN’ WITH CAT AND THE GOV **
Our own Mary Moore helped Executive Chef Holly Chute and Celebrity Chef Cat Cora in preparing a healthy meal in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion kitchen.
This was the kickoff luncheon of the statewide initiative Tons of Fun Fitness Challenge and was hosted by The Governor and Mrs. Nathan Deal.
Tons of Fun is a program designed to encourage healthier choices and changes related to nutrition and exercise.
Among its unique factors:
1. It is the first statewide health/nutrition initiative to be geographically based in Georgia's State Parks
2. It is the first every collaboration between the departments of Health, Education and Natural Resources
3. It offers a powerful online tool and resources, available to the public for free
4. It has engaged celebrity chefs to develop unique programming
5. It allows local communities, parks and businesses to design events that address specific needs
6. And most of all, it makes fitness and nutrition FUN!
The web site for the program is http://www.tonsoffun.org/
Decatur - Whether you walk or run, the shoes you're wearing can make a big difference in how you feel. A bad fit can leave your feet in a world of hurt.
I just started trying to run again with my beat up old running shoes. After day one, the tops of were killing me because the shoes were too loose.
So, I asked Big Peach Running Company in Decatur to show me - and you - how to find a shoe that fits.
D.B. Cooper hijacking mystery is revived with 'promising lead'
A reported tip has led investigators to a person who might have information on D.B. Cooper's 1971 jetliner skyjacking, and an unspecified item has been sent to a lab. It's the 'most promising lead we have right now' in a case that has captivated the public imagination, an FBI spokesperson tells a Seattle newspaper.
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D.B. Cooper Leaped into History 40 Years Ago.
It is truly a great unsolved crime. The facts are as follows:
On a rainy Thanksgiving Eve in 1971
(November 24, 1971)
A passenger who gave his name as ‘Dan Cooper’ (the "D.B." is based on later errors in the media, but has become more widely known) boarded Flight 305 in Portland, Oregon, bound for Seattle. Using the threat of a bomb in his suitcase, Cooper hijacked the plane shortly after take off.
It landed in Seattle, where Cooper released the passengers unharmed in exchange for his ransom demands being met: $200,000 in unmarked bills and 4 parachutes. After taking on these items, Cooper directed the crew to take off once more, and fly to Reno, Nevada.
During this second flight, he sent all the crew to the cockpit, and parachuted from the plane with the money. He was never apprehended, and although approximately $5000 was later found in the area that he parachuted into, nothing else ever was. Cooper has never been identified, and his true name may never be known. The FBI has stated that it believes him to have died upon landing, and decayed to nothing before he could be found. Of course, they also claimed that he was rude and abusive in conversations with them, which is at variance with the recollections of the crew members who heard these conversations, so it’s possible that the Bureau may be engaged in a certain amount of ass-covering.
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A woman claiming to be the niece of the mysterious skyjacker dubbed D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of a jetliner with $200,000 in ransom, says she recalls her uncle plotting the sensational caper at a family gathering in 1971.
Marla Wynn Cooper, 48, of Oklahoma City, told ABC News that she is the person who recently furnished the FBI new clues pointing to a previously unknown suspect and sparking a renewed probe of the 40-year-old case, said to be the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. aviation history.
The FBI in Seattle acknowledged earlier this week that a person who was close to the new suspect had obtained objects now being examined to see if they bear fingerprints matching those left behind on the hijacked plane.
An FBI spokesman in Seattle, Fred Gutt, declined again on Wednesday to reveal the person who came forward with the latest information, saying, "We do not identify witnesses in an investigation."
But Marla Cooper said she is certain that her uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper, who went by the name L.D. Cooper, was the man who seized a Seattle-bound Northwest Orient Airlines flight in November 1971 by claiming to have a bomb. He vanished when he jumped out of the rear of the plane in mid-air with a parachute and $200,000 in cash.
The plane was flying at about 10,000 feet at night through a storm over wooded, rugged terrain in the Pacific Northwest, and the hijacker was presumed by many to have likely perished.
Still, the sensational Thanksgiving eve caper triggered a massive manhunt, and the FBI went on to consider over 800 suspects in the first five years after the crime.
The only trace from his getaway was a crumbling batch of $20 bills matching the ransom money's serial numbers, unearthed by a boy from a sandbar along the Columbia River in 1980.
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
Marla Cooper, a sales executive for a coffee company, told ABC News she decided to come forward after piecing together vague childhood memories, which were reinforced with comments each of her parents made to her in more recent years.
She recalled seeing L.D. Cooper and another uncle during a family gathering at her grandmother's house in Oregon around Thanksgiving 1971 "planning something very mischievous."
"I was watching them using some very expensive walkie-talkies that they had purchased," she said, recounting that her uncles then "left to supposedly go turkey hunting."
When they returned, "My uncle L.D. was wearing a white T-shirt and was bloody and bruised and a mess, and I was horrified. I began to cry," she told ABC. "I asked them what happened, and they told me they'd been in a car accident."
But she also recalled overhearing one of her uncles say, "'We did it, our money problems are over, we've hijacked an airplane,'" and she recounted hearing them ask her father to "help them go back into the woods and find the money."
Marla Cooper said she gave the FBI a leather guitar strap her uncle had made, along with a 1972 Christmas photo of him with the same strap, for the FBI to use in fingerprint matching analysis.
She told ABC that her uncle, whom she never saw again after he returned injured from the Thanksgiving holiday episode, had served in the Korean War but was not a paratrooper. However, she recalled he was obsessed with a Canadian cartoon skydiving hero named Dan Cooper and even kept a Dan Cooper comic book tacked to a wall.
According to the FBI, the man in the dark business suit who hijacked Northwest flight 305 called himself Dan Cooper when he purchased a one-way ticket in Portland, Oregon, but the moniker D.B. Cooper originated from media reports and stuck.
The FBI says DNA testing has failed to conclusively link a potential new suspect to the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. But then again, test results haven't exactly ruled out a link, either.
And that's good news for mystery lovers: It might have been a little disappointing if the tests had shut the lid on one of the most tantalizing cases in U.S. law enforcement. On Twitter, Brad Meltzer, author and host of History Channel's mystery-cracking "Decoded," remarked on the news: "D.B. Cooper just keeps getting better, right?"
To this day, the case of D.B. Cooper remains the FBI's only unsolved hijacking case. And for now, Cooper continues to be the one that got away.
We hear funny guys Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller are coming to town for a movie called “Neighborhood Watch.”
This is billed as a “science fiction comedy.” They play dads who hang out in their subdivisions just being dudes but then they stumble onto some big conspiracy. So Atlanta is the perfect place for that movie.
Filming for this project cranks up this fall. Their folks are already in town poking around, scouting locations.
We also hear that the guys want to stay in style and are contracting with a local high-end leasing company to book them into some ritzy digs for the time that they are here.
Wahoo! Grill and Ale Yeah! Spotlight Hand-Crafted Atlanta Brews
Join Wahoo! and Ale Yeah! Craft Beer Marketowner Eddie Holley for a five-course Atlanta Beer Tasting Dinner.
Wednesday, August 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Enjoy a summer menu prepared by executive chef Christian Speigal paired with Atlanta's finest hand-crafted beers selected by Holley. The menu will include:
Reception: Prosciutto wrapped shrimp with roasted sweet potato Sweetwater 420 Pale Ale
First Course: Spiced Ahi tuna salad with roasted beets, heirloom cucumbers and ginger-honey vinaigrette Terrapin Sunray Wheat
Second Course: Beer-braised Pine Street Market sausage with slow-roasted Arnett Farm heirloom tomato ragout Sweetwater IPA
Third Course: Florida red snapper with sauteed summer vegetables and lemon-dill veloute Red Brick Blonde
Fourth Course: Braised Eden Farms pork belly with roasted cippolini onions, haricot vert and parsnip puree Wild Heaven Invocation
Fifth Course: Chocolate fondant with fresh raspberry coulis and brown sugar whipped cream Wild Heaven Ode to Mercy
An intimate evening with space for 27 guests, the dinner will be served in our private dining room and is $38 per person, plus tax and gratuity. To reserve a spot for this special experience, please call 404.373.3331.
That is one big tree, I wonder where that once stood ? Seen here behind the Decatur Fire Dept No. 1 It may have been cut down near the Fire Dept. The Fire Dept is now in the process of being refurbished.
The long wait for Trackside Tavern’s re-opening is almost over. In fact, it’s just days, maybe even hours away. Really.
“The place looks beautiful,” said owner Doc Al Czarkowski in an e-mail. The staff is hired and trained, the glassware is washed and on the shelves. The beer is in the fridge and the liquor is in the cabinet.
Indeed, cold beer and clean glasses leave little doubt the pouring of the first libation is imminent and according to a July 21 post on Trackside’s Facebook, “there is “nothing ‘tentative’ about it anymore.”
But for now, ‘mum’ is the word on an exact day and time the Decatur “Cheers-like" bar will open.
“We are going to try our best to have a soft opening to avoid a line of people waiting at the door at the same time,” said Czarkowski.
The popular neighborhood bar on College Avenue closed for more than two years due to a fire that destroyed the tavern. The 1917 building was demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
A student-run film theatre on Georgia State University campus. Causing a cinematic commotion since 1991, Cinefest shows a variety of movies that ranges from indie, foreign, documentary, cult-classics and even your favorite mall movies.
Thursday, July 21: Newly Restored 35mm Print of "SHAMPOO" - Special One Night Only Screening
66 Courtland Street SE, Suite 240 Atlanta, GA 30303
Decatur's newest school is close to being ready for the Aug. 2 start of the school year.
The 4/5 Academy at Fifth Avenue is the first new school built in Decatur since Renfroe Middle School in 1972. It will serve fourth and fifth graders from throughout the city's school system.
The new building replaces the old Fifth Avenue Elementary, which sat empty for the past few years.
The Academy will be part of the International Baccalaureate Program, which offers a curriculum that is seen a much more rigorous than those offerd by most public schools.
The official ribbon-cutting will be held on Sunday, July 31, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. The public can tour the building during that time.
Interview Whitney Miller from Gordon Ramsey’s MasterChef
WHO: Whitney Miller, Season 1 winner, Gordon Ramsey’s MasterChef
WHAT: FREE EVENT: Miller will autograph her new cookbook, “Modern Hospitality: Simple Recipes with Southern Charm” at the Decatur location of The Cook’s Warehouse
Hors d'oeuvres and beverages served from the cookbook
Goodbye, Sears building. Adios, City Hall East. Hello, Ponce City Market. The new owners of City Hall East, a historic structure in Atlanta near Midtown, are planning an organic garden, a "green" roof top and a foodie market akin to the Ferry Building in San Francisco or Pike Place Market in Seattle. They also plan to shed the names the building has been called, as far back as 1926, to rebrand it as Ponce City Market.
Plans call for hundreds of residential units, 2,000 internal parking spaces, loft-style, upscale offices, retailers -- possibly national chains -- and a foodie destination with “farm to table” vendors and local restaurants. The North Avenue side of the building could have an organic farm to supply the market.
Still, no new tenants were announced Monday as Mayor Kasim Reed and executives with Jamestown Properties celebrated the long-awaited sale at a news conference atop the brick building.
Nonetheless, if everything comes to pass, it will be a big change for the hulking building that for years sat mostly empty along one of Atlanta’s busiest arteries, Ponce de Leon Avenue. Jamestown is paying Atlanta $27 million to buy the building and plans to spend $180 million redeveloping it for an early 2014 reopening. The project will benefit from opportunity zone tax credits through the Atlanta Development Authority and other tax credits from the U.S. Department of the Interior. Full story at AJC
From: AJC The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Rachel Tobin On Monday, Mayor Kasim Reed is expected to announce the long-awaited sale of City Hall East to Jamestown Properties. The 85-year-old building -- once a huge Sears complex -- has been a white elephant of sorts along one of Atlanta’s most central thoroughfares. When then-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson announced the deal to buy the Sears building for $12 million in 1990, he called it "the deal of the century." Less than five years later, renovation costs had skyrocketed and lease income didn't materialize, in part because of limitations on the debt used to finance it. Atlanta never fully occupied the 2 million square foot building, which is one considered one of the largest in the Southeast.
