Atlanta Hotel History
etidd
Atlanta Hotels; i.e. The Winecoff, Atlanta Cabana Motel, The Piedmont,
etc.
Eric Tidd
J.H. Holliday
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Thanks for sharing;-)
Doc
FACE
wrote:
I am thinking that GSU has a website with many, many old photos of downtown
atlanta and surrounds. Try googlng on: Atlanta +history
Also, the Scott Drive-in was on Scott Blvd? (someone tells me)
FACE
etidd
Eric Tidd
Ben Arthur
what hotels are prefered by sodomites.
kcaj
One of the most recognizable was the one that
looked like a flying sauce on top. It was a landmark
tourist stop for years. It was the first hotel in area
that had a large open center where people could
look down 500 feet or more. It was called
the Hyatt Regency? There was a restaurant
on top that revolved slowly around so people
eating at the restaurant could get a 360 degree
view of Atlanta. When Atlanta's skyline was
much smaller you could always see it coming
through Atlanta on freeway, etc. Then there
is the Peachtree Plaza ( I think this is the name)
The Peachtree Plaza also has a revolving restaurant
on top I believe. At one time. 20 years or so ago,
it was considered the tallest hotel in America.
Then there's the Omni hotel. This and the CNN rise
on the charts speak for themselves. There was
also some old Hotel that was connected with the
Gone With The Wind movie in the1930's. I know
the movie theater that had the premiere of the
movie, but there was a hotel where the stars
stayed. I was looking at the photo archives
at the Library of Congress recently. There are
some good old Atlanta photos there from the
American Civil War. You should be able to find
a lot more good historic Atlanta photos there.
Also check the photo archives at the University
of Georgia. They have a fairly good archive as
I have run across in the past. Excuse my memory.
I'm having a brain fart today.
l
This might help some.
http://www.google.com/search?q=CNN+photo+archives&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
FACE
<kcaj_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> There was
>also some old Hotel that was connected with the
>Gone With The Wind movie in the1930's. I know
>the movie theater that had the premiere of the
>movie, but there was a hotel where the stars
>stayed.
That was the Georgian Terrace Hotel nearly across the street from the Fox.
(the opening theater was The Loews down Peachtree near across from
Davisons.)
FACE
Somebody
> One of the most recognizable was the one that
> looked like a flying sauce on top. It was a landmark
> tourist stop for years. It was the first hotel in area
> that had a large open center where people could
> look down 500 feet or more. It was called
> the Hyatt Regency? There was a restaurant
> on top that revolved slowly around so people
> eating at the restaurant could get a 360 degree
> view of Atlanta. When Atlanta's skyline was
That hotel brings back memories of a bit of mischief I took part in back
in late 1969 or early 1970. At the time there was another hotel under
construction next door to the Regency to the south. One night my college
roommate and I plus several friends were riding around looking for
something to do. One of our friends told us about this new hotel so we
decided to go check it out. I no longer remember where we parked but
you can picture what it looked like as 5 or 6 hippies come walking in
the front door of this fancy hotel and all get on the elevator going up to
some unknown floor. Wherever it was that we went we found an half
way open construction walkway going next door to the new hotel being
built so we all walked across that walkway to explore the new building
which at that level didn't even have any outside walls or electric power.
All it had was floors and roughly framed inner walls. It was really kind
of dangerous and I for one was glad when we left. Inside that new hotel
they had rolls and rolls of carpet ready to be laid out after they got the
place enclosed and finished enough to be ready for carpet. One of my
friends said that he needed new carpet for his room so he just grabbed
an appropriately sized roll of it and went staggering around under its
weight as we went back across that walkway and trundled it back down
to the lobby and out the front door. Nobody ever did challenge us at all
anywhere along the line.
There was another old old hotel in Buckhead where my great uncle
was either the manager or owner back in the 1950s. I could swear
that it is the same building where Piedmont hospital is now located
because it looked the same, was at about the same location and on the
same side of the street with that same circular drive in front and was
also angled with respect to Peachtree St in exactly the same way that
Piedmont hospital is angled. I just checked the Piedmont hospital
website though and see that they have been around for 100 years
(don't know if in the same location) so maybe my uncle's hotel
was located somewhere else nearby. I remember playing with my
cousin out front on the circular drive when I was 4 or 5 years old.
Later my uncle left that hotel behind to become manager of the
Georgian Terrace downtown.
--
maryanne kehoe
Peachtree Fashion Center School that was down the street from Piedmont
Hospital? It had a circular drive as I recall. They used to advertise in
the fashion magazines in the early 1970s. Don't know what its history
was before that.
Andy Walton
> On 23 May 2005 08:35:36 -0700, "etidd" <er...@ericjtidd.com> wrote:
>
> >I am interested in any history, pictures, memorabilia, etc. from
> >Atlanta Hotels; i.e. The Winecoff, Atlanta Cabana Motel, The Piedmont,
> >etc.
> >
> >Eric Tidd
>
>
> One of the most recognizable was the one that
> looked like a flying sauce on top. It was a landmark
> tourist stop for years. It was the first hotel in area
> that had a large open center where people could
> look down 500 feet or more. It was called
> the Hyatt Regency? There was a restaurant
> on top that revolved slowly around so people
> eating at the restaurant could get a 360 degree
> view of Atlanta.
Still there. The view is a lot less impressive than it used to be.
--
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etidd
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Eric Tidd
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Somebody
To tell you the truth I'm not sure which building the Peachtree Fashion
Center School was and the whole thing is kind of vague in my mind
since I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time (1955ish). I DO remember
that my uncle's hotel was up on a hilltop like Piedmont Hospital and that
he lived in an apartment that opened up on the right side of the ground
floor of the building but a lot of those memories are really kind of
piecemeal. It seems to me that the name of the place might have been
Colonial Homes something or another but I might also be thinking of
Colonial Homes Drive just down the street to the north (opposite the
old location of Onion Dome in the 1960/70s) where one of my aunts
lived for many many years (my granddad was eldest of 10 kids so there
were a LOT of aunts, uncles and even more cousins... and a lot of funerals
in recent years too).
Where was Peachtree Fashion Center School located... do you remember?
--
maryanne kehoe
where Peachtree Fashion Center School was at. I seem to recall the
building *was* some kind of lodging loooongggg before I came to Atlanta.
I think we got us a winner!
Re: Atlanta Hotel History
Group: atl.general Date: Thu, May 26, 2005, 1:41am From:
some...@nowhere.com (Somebody)
Ben Arthur
maryanne kehoe
is now the AMTRAK station?
kstahl
> Does anyone remember the Regency Hyatt House on Peachtree Road near what
> is now the AMTRAK station?
>
No. I don't remember that.
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FACE
Do you mean the Atlanta Cabana just past Pershing Point?
maryanne kehoe
near the Atlanta School of Fashion and Design?
maryanne kehoe
Was that the old Admiral Benbow Inn on Pershing Point, corner of Spring
and Peachtree?
FACE
No, i think the Admiral Benbow was more at the end of Spring right before
Peachtree.
The Atlanta Cabana was just about directly across Peachtree from the Mony
building. -- Between Zestos and the Amtrak station?
(We need a wayback camera set on about 35 years. :-))
FACE
FACE
Yes, i was just trying to think of that name. Had a bear in a nitecap as a
logo. That was where the Florida girl who was buried alive in a plywood box
(and found alive) behind Dekalb Community College was kidnapped for ransom.
(Did you locate that wayback camera?)
FACE
FACE
"1968 brought additional attention to the city [Lawrenceville] when Florida
heiress Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped and buried alive in Gwinnett
County. The city served as headquarters police and reporters who waited for
word from the kidnappers after a $500,000.00 ransom was paid. Mackle, who
was buried in a box only slightly larger than a coffin, had a tube for air
and a little food and stayed in the box for 81 hours. After freeing the
young lady, police captured the kidnappers, Ruth Eiseman-Schier and Gary
Steven Krist. Krist served 10 years of a life sentence and is now an Indiana
doctor."
http://www.historiclawrenceville.com/about.htm
FACE <it was long time ago, i was young, i needed the money.....>
maryanne kehoe
The Barbara Mackle case---but I thought she was kidnapped from a motel
on N. Druid Hills Rd.
maryanne kehoe
kstahl
> What other old hotels haven't we discussed?
>
How about the Turbotville Hotel?