Date: 4 May 1999 02:46:18 -0000
Message-ID: <19990504024618.10041.qmail@nym.alias.net>
From: Ramsey <ramsey@nym.alias.net>
To: cheesy21@email.com
Subject: A Little About Atlanta / Please Read Carefully
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Patti,

I am not that great with street names but I will try to give you 
a picture of the Atlanta area as best I can. I think you will be 
convinced that I live here. Please read this carefully?

I will proceed to take you up Roswell Road. To get to Roswell Rd. 
and Northridge Road, I have to get on I-285 and travel to the 
Sandy Springs / Roswell Road exit #17. I sometimes exit at Powers 
Ferry Landing and go up Powers Ferry Road and take a left on Mt 
Paran until it dead ends into Roswell Road. There is a realty 
business dead ahead. It used to be a residential house. I can 
then take a left to go toward Roswell or right to go to Buckhead 
and downtown. If I turn left on Roswell, there was once a Chi 
Chi's Mexican restaurant on the left on Roswell Road. It is not 
called that now. I can't recall it's name now. There are real 
estate buildings everywhere on Roswell Road. There is a brand new 
post office with poor service off Roswell Road. You can turn 
right off Roswell Road, right after Happy Gas, and get to 
Northside Hospital. There is a great ski shop on that road. Right 
at the I-285 and Roswell Road intersection, there is a tall 
building about 11 stories tall with a sign that reads 
"Newberger/Andes". They are commercial developers. Across the 
road, there is a tall real estate building. It is white in color. 
There are a smattering of night spots on both sides of the road 
on Roswell, just above I-285. Up from there, K-Mart is on the 
left. Just past K-Mart, at the intersection, there is a Burger 
King on the left and a service station just across that. One road 
that crosses Roswell Road, at this point, is Hammond Drive. There 
is a park called Hammond park and you can take that road as a 
shortcut to Perimeter Mall, another great place to shop). The 
alternate route to Perimeter Mall is on I-285, exit 21 
Ashford/Dunwoody Road. Up Roswell Road, on the left, there is a 
Starbuck's with great coffee. Roswell Road is really not my 
immediate area but I know more about it than I thought I did.

My family and I often shop at Cumberland Mall. Oh, I can't forget 
to mention the beautiful Galleria Mall. It is close to 
Cumberland. Cumberland Mall is located on hwy 19/41. It is easy 
to access from Marietta. Sometimes, I feel like going to 
Buckhead. When I do, I shop at Lenox Square. It has changed so 
much since I lived here before. The Marta train has a station 
right behind Lenox Square Mall.

When I am in that area, I can take the Georgia 400 to Roswell 
(the city). If I exit to I-285, I can exit off on the Sandy 
Springs exit to get on Roswell Road. While on GA 400, if I exit 
before I-285, on Lenox Road, I don't have to pay a toll. It is a 
toll road, you know. I might visit the Paugh residence if I go up 
GA 400 to Roswell (the city). It is easy to get to, since they 
live down and to the left of Roswell High School. Brookfield West 
is a nice neighborhood.

Tower Place is in Buckhead. It has scattered shops at its base, 
where I like to eat. Tower Place is a tall building across from 
the Kroger store. When I lived here before, there was a night 
spot across the road called, "The Lime Light". It has been gone 
for years. Your Jameson person would not know that. 

When I am on Roswell road, coming from Buckhead and entering into 
Sandy Springs, to get to I-75, which leads to Marietta and to 
I-285, I take a shortcut through a winding road called Mount 
Paran Road. At the end of this road is the Mount Paran Church of 
God. Haven't you ever heard of Mylon Lefevre (mispelled that 
name)? I can take a right here and go back to Cumberland Mall. I 
can keep going up 19/41 and I am in Marietta, passing the Big 
Chicken. What is the Big Chicken? It is a landmark in Marietta. 
It is a huge chicken with a beack that opens and closes; a 
Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.

Oh yeah, I-285 is a circle around the city. Here in Atlanta, we 
call this "the perimeter". You either live inside the perimeter 
or outside the perimeter. Roswell is a city and also a road. The 
city of Roswell is reached fastest by GA 400, depending on where 
you are located.

I can go on and on because I live in Atlanta. I have left here 
and returned. I can remember things that were here before. There 
has been a lot of development since I was here before. Atlanta is 
a great place to live.