The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, October 15, 1930, Image 10
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
POWER
COMEANY
town is really a good deal more trouble
than it’s worth.
Try the big-town plan. Even if you live
some distance away from a street car line,
you can drive your auto to a convenient
place in the residential section, park it there
and let a street car carry you the rest of
the way on your shopping trip —witnout
any bother at all about traffic or parking
when you get downtown.
Ride the street cars for a few days when
you shop or go to the theater. The conven
ience of it will convert you to regular street
car riding.
Try a “sample” ride!
A
Big-town
HABIT
Atlanta is America’s 22nd city. Whether
the Census Bureau agrees to it or not, the
population is here. We are too big a city
for small-town habits to persist.
Bringing the auto downtown unnecessarily
is one of those habits.
In small towns it is all right. There is lots
of room at the curb or in the center of the
street for parking. There is lots of room on
the streets for the automobiles that come in
town.
But in Fulton County alone there are nearly
60,000 autos, and only room for 2,665 of them
to park at the curb in the business district.
So you see why your car so delightful in
less congested sections — becomes such a
problem downtown. And why driving it to