NPU-W Community Brainstorm
Andrea Cleary
NPU-W was awarded a Community Impact Grant. The grant will fund (1.) a subscription recording tool for neighborhood meetings (via Porch Press website) —and placemaking projects, (2.) six light box murals and (3.) a scavenger hunt connecting the NPU-W neighborhoods (SAND, East Atlanta, Grant Park).
WE NEED YOUR HELP!! Tell us what are the unique places, people and things in your neighborhood?
- What is your favorite neighborhood landmark?
- Are there any famous people who lived/still live in your neighborhood?
- What do you know about the history of your neighborhood?
- Houses or buildings in it?
- What would you consider ... a hidden treasure?
- Fun facts... Is _____ an urban legend, or a real thing?
- Think Past-Present... What used to be there, but now is gone?
This information will help inform scavenger hunt and inspire the artists.
Take a walk, bike, or drive—and send in your suggestions between October 1-October 11.
Stops where stuff was filmed,
- Metropolitan - Avengers
- Metropolitan - Haunting of Hill House
- 529 - Cobra Kai
- United / prev named Confederate. Why? (DOT now stands where a hospital once stood; federal govt built a hospital for Confederate soldiers)
- Metropolitan Ave - founders of streetcar co
- Haas - Nate?
- McPherson - Henry B, for a Union General
Sleepy campus on top of a hill. What do we know about it? What happened to the houses to the left of it?
you mean like,
- on top of Maynard Jackson HS?
- Wilderness south of Beltline?
- Prison Farm?
- Sylvester Cemetery?
- Flat Shoals/McPherson
- Berne
- Mayanrd - TBD
- what others?
Like the red lines behind the library
There's a house on the corner of Ora and Clifton that has changing skeleton display and other artwork
Re: house on Ora - is that permanent or seasonal? Can you think of other public art installations?
Fiddlin' John Carson recorded the first country song, and his gravesite is in Sylvester Cemetery. Since his views on race and religion have not aged well, perhaps a focus on the role Carson's song "Ballad of Little Mary Phagan," about a Cabbagetown murder, played in the lynching of Atlanta Jewish leader Leo Frank would be appropriate.
Read about Fiddlin' Joe... what else do we know about his hit? Or who else is buried there?
Never seen any of 'em, not on the Beltline! What others are there?
That place still gets a lot of business! What else can you tell us about it? I thought I saw someone say it had a big theatre/auditorium?
I've always loved that the original bank burglar bars/teller stalls from the olden days market are still visable (uncovered) along the brick walls in Joe's Coffee.
How have I never noticed those inside Joe's? PS, I read the bank was once robbed by someone tunneling through the walls into the vault.
There’s one at the EAVFM and another in front of a house at the sidewalk on Metropolitan (don’t know the address - about a block south from the Post Office on the northside of the street).
Great idea! I know the Metro one - right up from Metro & Haas. Where at our EAV farmer's market?
Love this. What's your favorite part about it? What could we turn into trivia or a clue?
great idea - we've got a whole bunch! Has anyone done the BATL walking tour?
The BATL walking tour is great. So much history around here. Henry Bryant is your man for all this type of info.
Madison Theatre. Wasn’t it one of the first, or earliest de-segregated movie theatres?