Atlanta
The Winecoff Hotel fire, Hank Aaron’s 715, the pencil factory, Willie B. and the man upstairs at the Fox.
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Centennial Olympic Park: The Guard
For three days he was the man who saved lives at the Olympics. Then the headline changed.
Ebenezer Baptist: the organ
A gunman came to this church for the preacher. What the preacher did next took twenty-one years to play out.
Georgia Capitol: Elected Three Times
His voters kept sending him here. The House kept shutting the door.
Georgia Tech: The Sugar Bowl Riot
A riot in the Deep South, in 1955, in favour of playing an integrated game.
Maynard Jackson's Grave: The Garbage Strike
The sanitation workers helped make him mayor. Four years on, they hung a banner about him at a Braves game.
The 715 Spot: The Man with the Binocular Case
The best moment in baseball, and a policeman in the stands with seconds to decide.
The Fox Theatre: The Man Upstairs
He helped save the theatre and lived under its dome. Then its board voted to end his lease.
The Pencil Factory: Mary Phagan and Leo Frank
A governor read ten thousand pages, then ordered what he knew could cost him his life.
The Pickrick: Selling Pick Handles
A chicken restaurant, a pistol, and the road from there to the governor's office.
The Winecoff Hotel Fire
Its writing paper promised one thing. The building had a single open staircase.
Willie B.: 27 Years Indoors
The zoo's most famous resident spent twenty-seven years here indoors, with a tire swing.