Michelle Shidlovsky
How Atlanta got its name. Why that building is still standing. Who was here first. Atlanta has a story behind almost everything — the demolished, the renamed, and the still-open. In English, most weekdays.
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Michelle Shidlovsky
Host of Forgotten Georgia and the Atlanta After Dark podcast. She isn't reciting history at you — she's finding it out loud, one block at a time.
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How the city got its name and how the towns around it got theirs. How people ended up here. The Cotton States Exposition. Buildings that went and buildings that stayed — including the restaurants still serving. Anything with a story behind it, fact-checked against a three-source minimum.
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