In this 1958
photo, we're looking southeast along Marietta Street toward
downtown. The street intersecting on the right is Bankhead
Avenue. In 2005 or so, Bankhead Avenue was renamed
Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, but a short one block portion
of the old road on the east side of the railroad tracks
still goes by the name Bankhead Avenue. Top photo courtesy of the Georgia
State University Library Archives (File
#LBGPNS7-133a). Google
map
It's almost unbelievable to see all the businesses that used to line this stretch of Marietta Street. Among them were a drug store, a hotel, a storage/cleaning establishment (that's the still-standing formerly white building a little left of center), a grocery store, a shoe store, a kiddie store and a movie theater among others.
It's almost unbelievable to see all the businesses that used to line this stretch of Marietta Street. Among them were a drug store, a hotel, a storage/cleaning establishment (that's the still-standing formerly white building a little left of center), a grocery store, a shoe store, a kiddie store and a movie theater among others.
Lower photo:
December, 2012.