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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
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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
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