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    Atlanta - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide
    Atlanta - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide
    Atlanta - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide
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    Atlanta - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide

    By Andrew Delaplaine

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    A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Atlanta, whether your trip takes you to Downtown, Midtown, Buckhead, East Atlanta, Inman Park or Little Five Points.

    "I'd been through the airport a hundred times before I ever had a chance to spend 2 days in Atlanta. This book was just fine for me." --- Fred G, Seattle

    "I actually live in Atlanta and bought this book as a joke. I found three restaurants I'd never even heard of-and loved all three!" --- Jerry A., Buckhead

    You'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.

    =LODGINGS (in several parts of Atlanta) variously priced =

    FINE & BUDGET RESTAURANTS, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found.

    =PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.

    = SHOPPING -- A handful of interesting ideas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGramercy Park Press
    Release dateSep 4, 2020
    ISBN9781393543534
    Atlanta - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide
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    Andrew Delaplaine

    Writes both adult and children’s fiction and adventure stories, including the Jack Houston St. Clair political thriller series and the Sherlock Holmes IV mystery series, as well as a series of travel guides. He has directed 7 independent films and shorts, written 5, and produced 5.He also co-created and co-produced "A Wonderful World," a musical based on the life of Louis Armstrong told from the perspective of his four wives.In the past, he owned a famous nightclub on South Beach (The Warsaw Ballroom), published the longest-running paper on South Beach, "The Wire," and produced (for several years) a weekly TV show, "The Live Wire."He lives on South Beach, Miami's Billion Dollar Sandbar.He has no hobbies.

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      Book preview

      Atlanta - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine

      ATLANTA

      The Delaplaine

      2021

      Long Weekend

      Guide

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      Andrew Delaplaine

      NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.

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      Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.

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      Please submit corrections, additions or comments to [email protected]

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 – WHY ATLANTA?

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      Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT

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      Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY

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      Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT

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      Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE

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      Chapter 6 – GAY NIGHTLIFE

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      Chapter 7 - WHAT TO SEE & DO

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      Chapter 8 – SHOPPING & SERVICES

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      MAPS are at the end of the book

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      Chapter 1

      WHY ATLANTA?

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      Hotlanta?

      There’s no city that can lay a greater claim to represent what used to be termed the New South than the city of Atlanta.

      It was burned down in the Civil War (or as my Fifth Grade teacher Mrs. McCutcheon sternly reminded me in the 1960s, the War of Northern Aggression) during General Sherman’s famous March to the Sea, and to this day remains the only major American city completely annihilated by war. Sherman burned all the railroad depots, uprooted the tracks, burned every business to the ground and for good measure to show that he meant it, burned down two-thirds of the private homes.

      Perhaps that’s why Atlanta’s resurgence so captured the imagination. When it became the home of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta took on yet another level of symbolic importance.

      Non-natives are familiar if not with Atlanta itself, then surely with its huge airport. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport, with more than 88 million annual passengers. (By comparison, London’s Heathrow only has 64 million people passing through it.)

      Hosting the Olympics in 1996 gave Atlanta an international profile and drove many upgrades to the city. The MARTA public transport system is efficient and a major addition to the city’s infrastructure. The World Congress Center was built to attract the most desirable convention business and it has worked.

      It’s Hotlanta all right.

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      Chapter 2

      GETTING ABOUT

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      Atlanta is unique in that it has 3 separate skylines. Downtown, Midtown and Buckhead each has its own skyline that would make an admirable statement by itself.

      DOWNTOWN consists of Five Points, Centennial Park, Sweet Auburn, Castleberry Hill and the Hotel District. This is where you’ll find the state Capitol, City Hall, the CNN Center, Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola Museum. While most tourists congregate in Downtown, I advise you not to make the same mistake. Locals tend to disappear from Downtown after dark, so you should follow them to one of the many completely different neighborhoods they go to at night.

      MIDTOWN is the area just north of Downtown. It’s a major business and residential district with big buildings and a concentrated nightlife section. Piedmont Park, the Woodruff Arts Center and the Georgia Tech campus are located here.

      BUCKHEAD is a few miles north of Midtown. It’s a popular business and nightlife area. Buckhead is surrounded by neighboring Brookwood Hills, as well as Peachtree Battle, Lindbergh Center, and the Governor's Mansion.

      EAST ATLANTA, also called East Atlanta Village, has great neighborhoods with beautiful homes, some of the best bars and restaurants in town and a bustling shopping scene. It's a gentrifying area, but it's cool.  It's south of I-20 and Moreland Avenue.

      INMAN PARK, LITTLE FIVE POINTS, CANDLER PARK are clustered together and are a center for nightlife and no-hype restaurants favored by the locals. Little Five Points has great murals you’ll see as you walk around.

      VIRGINIA-HIGHLANDS is nearby—it has some of the nicer housing in the area.

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      BY CAR

      As anyone who’s been here knows, downtown traffic in Atlanta is a nightmare at rush hour. If you’re only on a short visit, forego getting a rental car and rely on cabs or MARTA to get around. I have pretty much stopped using cabs, except in places where Uber and Lyft aren’t operating.

      If you still don’t have these apps, you gotta get

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