Inside Pullman

I was walking by Pullman Yard today (see my January 31, October 1 & October 20 posts), when I noticed that some urban explorer had left an entrance in the chain-link fence surrounding the property. I couldn't resist; I went in and looked around for a few minutes. This picture is of a passing train, from inside one of the buildings.

Doubtful Assertion

Decatur, Georgia

Sad Tombstone

Today I found myself in Tucker, Georgia, where I lived until I was twelve. Several times each week, some of us kids would walk through this cemetery to go to a nearby store to buy candy or a Coke. This tombstone, of a World War II sergeant shot down over Berlin, always made me intensely sad; it must have been the first gravestone I had ever seen with a picture of the deceased.

Bugs

Avondale Estates, Georgia

Red Guitar Man

From the same yard on Clifton Road as the Little Blue Frog.

Stone Mountain View

Downtown and midtown Atlanta, seen from Stone Mountain, eight miles to the east.

Mello Joy

Forsyth County, Georgia

Santa Claus

Avondale Estates, Georgia

Reflection...

...of clouds in the window of a van.

Thanksgiving Grocery Display

Recording With the 4th WAKO

Recording with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra. Pictured are Noah Kess, Roger Ruzow, Nick Dixon and Eric Fontaine.

Ready for the Meeting

Fraser Center, Atlanta

No picture from November 18.

Snakes...

...on a car. Page Avenue, Atlanta.

Inside Harold's

I guess I've had barbecue on my mind lately, since I've visited two of Georgia's great BBQ joints within a week. Harold's, on McDonough Road, has been an Atlanta institution since 1947, and I'll bet the interior has hardly changed in all those years.

Crowley Cemetery

The Crowley family owned land near what is now Avondale Estates, Georgia, from 1829. In 1960, they sold the land to developers, who built Columbia Mall, a shopping center which fell into decline 20 years later, and is now Avondale Mall.

One of the conditions of the sale was that the family cemetery, which saw interments from 1828 to 1931, remain undisturbed. The developer enclosed the cemetery and excavated the surrounding land, so that the graves are above the surrounding parking lot.

40 or 50 slaves were also buried in the area surrounding the Crowley plots. No attempt was made to preserve those graves.

A Long Way From Home

Terrace Avenue, Atlanta

The Simpsons

Red Tree

Atlanta is beautiful in April and November. This tree is on Page Avenue.

Saxophone Quartet Music

For about a week, I've been obsessively writing saxophone quartet music.

Sprayberry's

Another of Georgia's great barbecue joints, in Newnan.

Gingko Tree

This time of year, this tree is the prettiest in my neighborhood. McLendon Avenue, Atlanta.

Election Day

Lampshade

Coffee shop, Atlanta

Cabbagetown Church

A cellphone picture of a bit of old Cabbagetown - Solid Rock Baptist Church on Berean Avenue. (See my post of two days ago for more about Cabbagetown.)

Pablo Casals' Signature

This 1916 record by Pablo Casals has the great cellist's signature etched into the "dead wax" area.

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills

Part of a 19th-century factory complex in Atlanta. The workers were mostly "immigrants" from the north Georgia mountains; they settled into the surrounding mill village, which came to be known as Cabbagetown. The workers brought their music with them; many early country musicians came out of the cotton mills; Fiddlin' John Carson worked here at Fulton.

This mill is now a high-end residential loft apartment building. Cabbagetown declined into one of the poorest neighborhoods in Atlanta, but is now filled with musicians, artists and other "urban pioneers." It's still a very interesting neighborhood, filled with wooden frame houses and narrow streets.

A Corner of My Music Room

...with some of my records - 78s (single and in albums), LPs, and CD box sets.

Indoors vs. Outdoors

Zenith/RCA Victor

In the eleven years I've been walking past this building on DeKalb Avenue in Atlanta, I had never noticed the remnants of the sign that reveals that it used to house a television repair shop.