Curiosity got the best of me the last week of 2012 and I went to get a look
at a pair of 20th century suburban Atlanta blacksmith shops I documented
somewhat clumsily back in 1986 and 1987 in that awkward period between
college and graduate school.  I looked up the two sites on Google Earth and
saved the points on my iPhone. Back in 1986, there were no iPhones, Google
Earth, and I likely would not have described the Dallas Highway corridor as
paradise but the lyrics from Joni Mitchell's 1970 song, "Big Yellow Taxi,"
aptly describe what I saw there now: "They paved paradise / And put up a
parking lot." There's no pink hotel nor a swinging hot spot but there are
Krogers, banks, boutiques and lots and lots of surface parking lots. And, of
course, absolutely no evidence of the blacksmith shops. The country store
associated with one of them (9Co247), however, has been adaptively used as a
community bank branch.

 

Waste some time this afternoon over the first two posts:

 

Part I: Cobb County blacksmith shops: a return
<http://blog.historian4hire.net/2012/12/30/cobb-county-blacksmith-shops-a-re
turn/>  (December 30, 2012) <http://wp.me/p1bnGQ-1TP >
Part II: Cobb County blacksmith shops: Due West Road
<http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/01/11/cobb-county-blacksmith-shops-due-
west-road/>  (9Co246) (January 11, 2013) <http://wp.me/p1bnGQ-1Wq>
Part III: Cobb County blacksmith shops: Lost Mountain (9Co247) (Forthcoming)

 

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