AJC wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:00:01 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Sarah Banick wrote:
> >
>
> >> I'm not offended that you or anyone doesn't like it here....I didn't
like
> >> the picture this thread is painting, and I want the newgroup readers to
> >> realize Atlanta is more than the cultural backwater y'all were hyping.
> >
> >
> >Well what "cultural" attractions does Atlanta really have? A fairly dire
> >art museum...the tattered old Cyclorama (diorama of the Civil War)...and
a
> >Coca - Cola "museum" where you have to pay to enter so as to be bombarded
> >with Coke's marketing propaganda...
> >
>
> You're forgetting the weird place about 15 mins walk along from Macy's
> that commemorates the slave trade or something. It is full of trashy
> souvenir stalls most of which seemed to be selling 'I heart Jesus tee
> shirts' and other delightful fashion items. Then in one of the hotels
> you can go up to the top floor and get a fabulous view of the concrete
> of Atlanta, we played count the car parks! Very much the Basingstoke
> of America.
You'd think that at least Atlanta would try to capitalise on _Gone With The
Wind_, but they haven't even done that. It was only a stroke of luck a
whiles back that author Margaret Mitchell's house was saved...
The South does have some interesting things to see, e.g. places like New
Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, plantations, battle sites, etc. but Atlanta
is in that singular position of having *no* redeeming attractions at
all...heck one of those roadside "alligator farms" in Florida is way more
interesting than everything in Atlanta put together...
Atlanta is one of those places that touts itself as "world class" (we had a
discussion on this recently on rec.travel.europe I think) but ends up
looking simply pathetic...
> >Yeah, if you fly Delta on a regular basis at all you've no choice but to
> >spend a few weeks out of the year in Atlanta...
> >
> >It's like that old Southron folk saying: When you die in the South you
have
> >to transit through Atlanta airport whether you are going to heaven or
> >hell...
>
>
> What do you mean transit to hell through ATL?
Correct. And you have to put up with those "elderly and rude" (as someone
noted on an airline quality rating site) Delta stewardesses wherever you are
going. Hell is being on a DL flight forever!
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Best
Greg
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