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More photos of the demolition of John B. Gordon Elementary School in East Atlanta

I recently created  a blog post, and a photo album, about the demolition of the John B. Gordon elementary school in the East Atlanta neighborhood.  I revisited the site on January 14th, and took a few more shots of the progress.  The demolition does not seem to be moving very quickly.  The machine being used to knock down the walls was sitting idle, and only a few more chunks of the west wall (the one closest to Moreland Avenue) seems to have been disturbed.

The lighting conditions were not idea when I took the shots, but they should be clear enough to mark the progress of the demolition at the time I took them.

I'll continue to post updates and photos as things change.  I have yet to actually see anyone involved in the demolition, so it is evidently not a priority project for the company doing the teardown.

Since there are only 13 photos, I'm going to include them all in the body of this post, but I've also provided an album, available in the sidebar, so you'll be able to easily locate the album later.

All my photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International.  That means you can do anything you want with them, without asking my permission, as long as you attribute them to me.

UPDATE:  I drove by the site today, and the contractor has made considerable progress on the demolition.  Most of the main building seems to be down.  It was too rainy and overcast for me to take photos, but I'll return on the first clear day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glenwood Park photos for March 2008

Y'all may have noticed that I haven't posted a lot of photos of Atlanta neighborhoods lately.  My old digital camera bit the dust about ten months ago, and I've been shopping in my penny pinching and lethargic manner since then.  I finally settled on a camera and purchased it.

Since Glenwood Park is the neighborhood I cover which is of most general interest (as manifested by page clicks on my photo albums) near my house, I've tested the camera by doing a walkthrough of Glenwood Park. 

I haven't yet done editing or captioning of the photos, but there has been a great deal of new construction since my last album.  Also bear in mind that I took these photos at about three pm midweek, on a cool and drizzly day, so not many people were on the streets.

Click here to enter the photo album.

Photos from Atlanta's History: the Special Collections department of Georgia State University's Pullen Library

The photograph on this page is of Ty Cobb and his teammates, and is from the Special Collections department of Georgia State University's Pullen Library. These photographic collections are an absolute time vortex for me. The entire onsite collection consists of over 300,000 photos. Luckily for me there are only around 8,000 of them online, or the entire rest of my life would be occupied by looking at the photos. The links labelled pages one through five below are a few pages from the Lane collection I particularly enjoyed because of the photographs of buildings in Atlanta, including quite a few beautiful ones which we have lost over the years.
The site has a good search facility, and by changing and refining my searches I've been able to find photos
on area neighborhoods and landmarks which I initially failed to find in the collection.

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One Man His Blog: No blockheads here

One Man His Blog: No blockheads here

Adam Tinworth's site is notable for great photos and observations on the built environment in the UK. The link above should raise the more general question, do expedient and functional things, no matter how necessary or even temporary, have to be ugly?

Other notable things I found on this morning's pass over his blog were photos of Soho, and his mobile blog posts from a train trip.

My Cycling Trip Today

I'm normally an avid cyclist, and in addition to commuting to my job downtown, at one time I would log more than a hundred miles most weeks. (for those who saw the earlier version I wrote "most weekends", but it should have read "most weeks". I didn't typically ride fifty miles a day on the weekends. I'd ride about 40 miles on Saturday and another 20 Sunday. The balance was scattered through the evenings).

A steep decline in my wife's health has made recreational cycling a rare treat, but today she was in good enough shape for me to do a loop through southeast Atlanta with my camera. My path took me across Moreland Avenue into North Ormewood Park, past Glenwood Park, over I-20 into the industrial area along Memorial Drive and into Cabbagetown. I've posted the photos in an album called Bike Ride, and have captioned it pretty extensively (although I've dumped the shots in in no particular order, so don't expect it to accurately reflect my route).

The bike I use for hops around the neighborhood is an interesting story in itself. I picked it up for 4 dollars at the Value Village thrift store on Moreland Avenue with the intent of converting it to a fixed gear bike. It's been so useful for short hops around the neighborhood with my camera and microcassette recorder that it has remained untouched, down to the "what were those guys thinking!?!" top tube shifters which became inexplicably ubiquitous on entry level road bikes in the 1970s.

I have considered at least putting a set of SPD pedals on the old Raleigh, so that I can efficiently expand the distances I go on the thing, but something about converting a $4.00 bike to a $74.00 bike in one ten minute burst strikes me as a bit inelegant. So for now the only thing I've done to it is oil the chain and check the brakes and tires.

To redeem myself in the eyes of my fellow vehicular cyclists, I'll post photos of my venerable old Bianchi road bike the next time I do a cycling post.