The Atlanta Georgian and News was a newspaper that launched on April 25, 1906 with a special thirty-six-page issue. Initially the paper had around seventeen thousand subscribers and was the third-largest paper in competition to The Atlanta Journal. In February 1907 the Georgian absorbed the … [Read more...]
A Snapshot of Shorty’s Steak House
Take a good look at the photo I have placed below. The time according to the archival notes with the photo is the 1940s. It appears to be a rainy day in Atlanta as cars and a trolley bus travel on Pryor Street. The large brick building looming in the right upper corner is the Kimball House Hotel … [Read more...]
An Ode to an Atlanta Elevator
Louis “Press Preston Huddleston (1870-1956) began working for The Atlanta Journal as a young man in the 1880s as a printer and moved over to work in The Atlanta Constitution building that sat at the southeast corner of Alabama and Forsyth in 1900 where he was the real estate and industrial news … [Read more...]
Compiling the 1850 Census in Gwinnett County, Georgia
For the last few weeks, I have been sharing some recollections of Mrs. Abigail “Abi” Pittman Elder (1832-1928) via a few of her letters written to the editor of The Atlanta Constitution. Though her letters she threw around bits and pieces of Atlanta history like confetti – mentions of Native … [Read more...]
