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| Breakfast at Hotel
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| Our hotel room at the Courtyard Atlanta Perimeter, north-east of Atlanta.
| Breakfast was leftovers from the Dekalb market. From roughly
left-to-right: focaccia, chocolate-colored orange peels, grapes, almond
date cake, tiramisu, cheese danish, and chocolate macaroon.
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| Grant Park
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| Di Yin near one entrance to Grant Park.
| A panorama from one path in Grant Park. As you can tell, it was yet
another beautiful day with perfect weather. As with the previous day,
the birds were chirping.
| View the full-sized image to read the plaque. Feel touched.
Then look at the sapling. At this point, I couldn't help laughing a
little. Nonetheless, I realize that in a hundred years this will be a
meaningful monument.
| Grant Park was practically abandoned on this Monday, a workday.
Happily, they kept the fountain running. It makes for a nice picture
when you set it to fill the screen.
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| The Cyclorama and the affiliated Civil War Museum. Sadly, they don't
allow pictures of the Cyclorama (a huge circular painting) itself.
I cannot confirm or disprove the claim that this is the world's largest
painting. Guinness doesn't have a category for paintings created by
multiple people.
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| Downtown
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| A monument to learning and great thinkers. Located in the tiny Hardy
Ivy Park.
| Dancing statues near Peachtree Center.
| Downtown Atlanta's skyscrapers. It's nice to see trees as well as a
sculpture (in foreground left).
| Peachtree Center has stores underground and businesses above. The flags
make it remind me of Rockefeller Center.
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| Atlanta's Flatiron building.
| Phoenix Rising from the Ashes by Gamba Quirino. Located in
Woodruff Park. It's supposed to symbolize Atlanta's rebirth after the
Civil War.
| If you don't look closely, you might not realize all these store facades
are painted on. It's a neat way of making a neighborhood seem less
abandoned.
This part of Sweet Auburn, despite its proximity to
downtown, has many empty buildings.
| What a cool name for an organization: The Odd Fellows. The main
entrance is center-left.
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| Sweet Auburn Curb Market
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| Sweet Auburn Curb Market's drab main entrance.
| Insanely long sausages.
| From left to right: a Johnny cake, a berry smoothie, some crab crakes,
some cabbage, some collard greens, and part of a roasted chicken.
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| More Downtown
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| More of downtown Atlanta's skyline.
| The Central Presbyterian Church. It's not listed in any of my guide
books.
| Georgia State Capitol. Look how big the tree is. Also notice the
magnolia trees and the statue of the Confederate general. Something
about this scene simply felt very Southern.
| Another view of the capitol.
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| Flowers adorn the capitol's lawn.
| A whale of a mural (pun intended) by the northwest corner of Martin
Luther King, Junior Drive and Washington Street. It's supposed to
promote the Georgia Aquarium, a surprising fact given the aquarium is a
sizable hike away.
| City Hall is architecturally distinct from the capitol dome, but I like
them both.
| An attempt to capture the greenery surrounding city hall.
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The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Fodor's has a neat
story:During the Battle of Atlanta, Thomas O'Reilly, the
church's pastor, persuaded Union forces to spare his church and several
others around the city. That 1848 structure was then replaced by this
much grander building, whose cornerstone was laid in
1869. It's a little sad that, while the pastor managed to
save the church from war, it was replaced twenty years later anyway.
(Incidentally, it burned in the 80s and had to be significantly
restored.)Frankly, it doesn't look impressive to me. I originally
thought this church, that I
saw earlier on the other side of the block, must've been the famous one.
| Centennial Olympic Park's square and fountain, surrounded by more flags
(re: Peachtree Center) and olympic-style torch towers.
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| The World of Coca-Cola
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| A large Coca-Cola sign hangs by the entrance with only a single point of support.
| A series of (yet more) international flags (countries at top, Coca-Cola
at bottom) in the museum's atrium. Pretty.
| A series of Coke bottles and bottles of imitators. The blurb on the
left, unreadable in this image, explains how Coca-Cola fought off
imitations by eventually designing a bottle shape that could be
trademarked. Incidentally, some of these imitators' names are cute:
Celery-Cola, Koca-Kola. If you read the bottle fast, you might be
mislead.
| Di Yin and I in a Coca-Cola ad. We only realized as we left that my
head was on an apparently female body. It's hard to tell with these old
ads!
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