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COMMUNITY INSIDE 30 years of Intown HEW HARRIS TEETER COMING TO SAGE HILL SHOPPING CENTER THE STORY BEHIND CHOW RESTAURANT FASHION TREASURES TUCKED AWAY IN VIRGINIA-HIGHLAND Tl VIRGINIA HIGHLAND ART GALLERY GUIDE. By Collin Kelley I’ve had the remarkable pleasure of editing Atlanta Intown for 22 of its 30 years. I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating: I am stunned and grateful to still have a job in print journalism nearly 40 years into my career. I came to Atlanta Intown in 2002 in a time of transition for the publication. Nonami Enterprises had assumed ownership and there were four publications to contend with: Intown, Atlanta Buckhead, Atlanta North, and our entertainment publication, The Studio. My instruction from interim publisher Joe Hiett was to revitalize the titles, and he gave me rein to do so. I had been reading Intown since it first hit the streets in 1994 under the name Atlanta 30306, the Morningside zip code of founding publisher Chris Schroder. I had watched over the years as 30306 added more publications: Atlanta 30305, Atlanta Downtown and Atlanta Real Estate. 1 NEWSPAPER FOR AHAHTA’S BEST NEISHE0RH00DS NR&MUHHHiUM) • DRUB HIIIS • HORNIHGSIDE ■ LENOX PARK More than 60 years ago, Edwin Nash walked into his living room on Courtenay Drive and saw 40 women Looking at him. Sitting on a stool in a comer was one he hadn’t met. Today, Florene keeps that stool as a memento of six decades of love and life in the same house, The couple shares old stories i and thoughts on keeping a I partnership going for so Jong. Their secret? Good communication and a strong faith. 30306 'M^ke5 Up to Twelve Coffee Houses Their story is on Page Nine. If you are a nsBetu of or visitor s 30306. your ideal tup of morning methane could be viMiig far yon in m e'ot 12 battens. With nine coffee akohotycifew aould argue Elat coffeehouses pose a sextons threat to the public health. As Felicia Goes!, I decaf coffee tan and 30506 resident suns, "if Eli like nowhere else in Atlanta 34306 1 Id the country. What for entrepreneurs Is a fits! and fun way to tare a pwofia serves ihe 30306 community as a rehsetl, friendly environment in which to enjoy exotic and traditional coffees as well as food items, an, music and convctsaUoo. Any of the store owners mil tell you they’re here to say. hot many patrons are skeptical that the treed mil last, giver the heavy conntartion amo ng stores an d low-proft margin from a single are throughout the* are beginning to slake the community thirst fo r an ahemattve to bats aid taverns. In October, Ihe American . afford RelaxaUna and comersaiion bars, the coffeehouses ire new just nighttime hangouts: lhey are liras a good place for neighborhood gathering Frank ftrdl, coowner of Virginia's, says he is most proud of the community aspect of his cafe "This is not the place ring. It's a place to he yourself- It's not a fashion show.’ In addition to the desire fora relaxed and intelligent atmosphere, area Architect Neel Re© Left Rich Legacy Of Hots m Drud Hlls NboHDORHOOD fiTIWntIt. SPtlittfSS. AIA superb landscape architect known far fo.*™ Ms designs of Central Puck itrSew York It is onfy fitting that one of the and the Biltmore House grounds to South s greatest architects, tel Held. AsheviElc. Thctr finished product was has stub a concentration oftrortltHhe considered otto of the finest residential Druid Kills area. This neighborhood, developments in the Southeast originally U00 sure, is knot™ for to The ta Hut so much of die winding streets, heantfful parks and origins! design remains intact is largely mature trees due to tbc labor of the Braid Hills CivSc In 1893. developer Joel Hurt Association. Its persistence and pres- waned to satisfy dibntans' dreams of cnee has protected the neighborhood's a ‘country place'away front the Integrity to a great degree. To own a CITY OF ATLANTA 55 TRINITY AVE, S.W. ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-0300 TEL(404)330-6100 Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens congratulated Atlanta Intown's 30th Anniversary, left. The first issue of Atlanta 30306 from 1994, above. October 21, 2024 Greetings: As the 61“ Mayor of Atlanta, I am pleased to wish Atlanta Intown a happy 30 Adversary on behalf of the people of tins great etty! Over.he pas, 30 years. Atlanta captures the vibrant spirit of our city. ^ has not only adapted but thrived, ^sS'^SS^S- - • " me,rOPO " S ' Atlanta In,own htghhghts our etty’s scene, thriving business landscape, and ^ jj.. iring rcsldcn „ a „d organizations restaurants and businesses and t cornmU niti^s. Each month, this publication who are » 2°7'oOO Z aXl~n„ec,t„g mdrv,duals Cywide Z^rShS storytelling and though,-provokinglonmaltsm. of out ofty, and here’s to many more years of success! I extend my best wishes for a memorable occasion. Sincerely, Atlanta Intown NOVEMBER 2024 Vol. 31 Mayor Andre Dickens There was even a short-lived Sandy Springs edition. Those newspapers would eventually morph or combine into the line-up I was facing on my first day on the job. Just like I did with our 20th and 25th anniversary issues, I went to the archive and pulled out the first edition of Atlanta 30306 to look back at where we’ve been. Flipping through that faded 30306, it’s a snapshot of a community on the cusp of big change. In 1994, people were just starting to figure out how the Internet worked, most people didn’t have cell phones, and the source for neighborhood news was publications like this one. Trendy coffee houses were a new thing then, and the cover of the first 30306 led with a big feature on a dozen that were open in the community. Out of the 12, only three remain: San Francisco Coffee, Aurora, and Caribou. Everyone was excited that a new grocery store called FFarris Teeter was opening in Sage Hill shopping center and that a new branch of the post office was opening on North FFighland. The hip place to buy clothes was Bill FFallman’s shop. Cool Joe and The Funky Soul Symbols were playing at The Dark FForse Tavern and REM had a big hit record called “Monster.” Art galleries were all the rage, too, with features on Aliya Gallery, koolhipfunkystuffi Modern Primitive Gallery and Form & Function A RoughDraft Publication SCANTHEQRCODE TO READ THE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE OF ATLANTAINTOWN 16 | NOVEMBER 2024 ROUGHDRAFTATLANTA.COM
