User:Jolomo

I'm an intown Atlanta resident and love the city

Things I can never remember


Welcome
 * Complex tables

To Do

 * Pages for streetcar routes like 3, 17
 * History of Atlanta book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jolomo/Books/AtlantaHistory
 * Redo this image and post [[Image:Atlanta-homicide-2002-2005.png|right|thumb|250px|Homicide rate by month (2002-2005)]]
 * Freedom Park (Atlanta)
 * Stone Mountain Trail
 * Chastain Park Trail
 * Arabia Mountain Trail
 * South Decatur Trolley Trail
 * Westside Trail
 * PATH (Atlanta)
 * PATH infobox with trail length, part of town, ease, "combined with street traffic?", etc
 * Separate Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 * Mechanics of a classic Grain elevator
 * Attempting to get all the info scrounged away on my website into Wikipedia
 * Flesh out Category:Atlanta neighborhoods
 * William B. Hartsfield should be a much longer article
 * Early history of Coca-Cola Company
 * Pioneer Atlanta jibes well with F.Garrett
 * Create a List of Atlanta viaducts and (possibly) pages for all of them (Wall, Alabama, Spring, Peachtree, Broad, Forsyth, Courtland, Techwood) with pictures of plaques

Mostly Done
projects that used to be on the To Do list
 * Add a Joel Hurt page
 * History of Atlanta's Ward System
 * Add a Lemuel P. Grant page
 * Mayors of Atlanta I'm combing through all my history books to try to put together at least a small bio on each mayor
 * Article on journalist Alexander St. Clair-Abrams
 * Georgia section of U.S. Highway 23
 * MARTA makeover -- possibly a Wikiproject
 * Make a map that can be color-marked for each intown neighborhood
 * The ultimate Brewer & Shipley section w/album covers, etc

Articles started
Maurice Barrymore, Duke Pearson, Lemuel P. Grant, Richard Peters (Atlanta), Battle of Kettle Creek, Brewer & Shipley, Wine tasting, Alex St. Clair Abrams, James Vann, Great Atlanta fire of 1917, Puritan (yacht), Breeze Card, Augusta Canal

Neat Stuff

 * I was looking at Thessaloniki and noticed a cool little color chart for the climate which I adapted to Atlanta. Since then it has appeared on Portland, Oregon, Boston, Massachusetts & Baltimore, Maryland &mdash; cool!

Book Sources
Most of my Atlanta articles rely on the following books
 * Atlanta 1847-1890 (1988) James Michael Russell
 * Atlanta and Environs (1954) Franklin Garrett
 * Atlanta and Its Builders (1902) Thomas Martin
 * Mule to MARTA (1976) Jean Martin
 * The Trolley Titans (1981) O.E. Carson

Atlanta music

 * Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia (2002), Wayne Daniel, UofI Press, ISBN 0-252-06968-4
 * Music and the Making of a New South (2004), Gavin James Campbell, UNC Press (funny William Lawson Peel stories)

Awesome Tools

 * Online index of Garrett, vols 1&2
 * Georgia county maps

Articles to ReRead

 * Ancient Greek phonology
 * Stock character
 * Timeline of Christianity/New Testament apocrypha
 * Timeline of evolution
 * Timeline of evolution

Perhaps Noteworthy

 * from first air mail from Atlanta. Contained in the first mail sent to New York by air from Atlanta is a $9,000 check from the Atlanta federal reserve bank to the New York federal reserve; letters from Mayor Walter A. Sims to Mayor Walker of New York, and to mayor Cook, letters from Postmaster Large to Postmaster Downing, of Fayetteville, Postmaster General New in Washington, D.C., and to Postmaster Kiely, of New York.  Also a letter from the president of the Altanta Junior Chamber to the president of the New York Junior Board of Trade.

Sortable MARTA boardings table 2011 data
† denotes terminal station