A weekly history podcast sharing stories about the people, places and events that shaped the city of Atlanta.
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We get running. As runners, physical therapists specializing in running medicine, and educators we know that there is more to running than meets the eye. We know and believe that an athlete's success is so much more than their body or their sport. Looking at and caring for the running athlete through a wider lens allows them to be well within and beyond their sport. We want to help widen the lens, shed some light and empower runners and healthcare providers through story telling and expert i ...
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Born and raised in Miami, DJ Joshua D has quickly become known worldwide. He's traversed the globe time and time again, infecting club goers with an irresistible desire to dance. Those who have experienced his live sets are frequently surprised at his ability to weave together a seamless musical journey, intense and full of energy! Truly an emergent international DJ and producer, Joshua D has been booked for events in many global hot spots such as LA, Miami, Chicago, London, Vancouver, San F ...
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Representing any form of music that will keep the crowd rocking; electronic artist Grant Saxena, aka DJ Sax, delivers with a pure manifestation of passion, energy, and originality. Current Press-Kit Download: http://smarturl.it/GSPressKit Music Chart Awards: 2021: - Beatport House Hype Top 100: Grant Saxena - Mango (Original Mix) 2020: - Beatport Progressive Hype Top 100: Grant Saxena - Portals (Original Mix) 2019: - Beatport Trance Hype: *Grant Saxena - Palolem (Original Mix) #25 *Grant Sax ...
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70. A Trail Runner, Track Star, and Marathoner Walk Into the Clinic...
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What are the differences in how we would treat different types of runners? Is there a difference? Dr. Kate and Dr. Kacy talk (and perhaps debate!) about the nuances of runners who compete in different events, including the special considerations in strength, mobility, and equipment. This is a fun and informative episode, no matter what type of even…
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This week, we’re talking about Atlanta’s first, official Playboy Club and the place it was located, the people who worked there, went there and when it closed. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | TwitterBy Victoria Lemos
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This week, we’re talking about one of Atlanta's most famous thoroughfares - and no, it’s not Peachtree Street - it’s Cheshire Bridge Road. Each time the city debuted a new thoroughfare, so began the promotion of its caliber and residents. Streets and avenues like Peachtree, Washington, Edgewood and so on would wage the battles of maintaining its st…
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This week, I am checking off another Atlanta neighborhood off the list - Ormewood Park. From its start as a single large estate that bred jersey cows, to the 1890s development, annexation, through its current history and unique landmarks and homes. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | Twi…
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Black toenails, blisters, bunions, oh my! In this episode, Dr. Kate and Dr. Kacy discuss the "weird" things that can happen to a runner's feet, and what to do about these various ailments. If you have ever had a question about your foot that you've been afraid to ask...the answer is probably in this episode. Some of these things are avoidable, whil…
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Springlake + Treehouse AirBnb (Interview w/ Peter Bahouth)
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This week, I am sharing my interview with Peter Bahouth, talking about the Springlake neighborhood, and exploring his treehouse, which AirBnb named it’s #1 “Most Wished For” listing. While we talk about the history of the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the Springlake neighborhood, its connection to the Klan and the efforts to form a park space that can…
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This week, we’re covering the The Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta’s alternative press that ran from 1968 through 1976. It was one of the longest-running underground newspapers of the era, publishing articles on Atlanta's political leaders, the women's movement, abortion, racial issues, culture and gay liberation. https://digitalcollections.library.gsu…
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This week, I am re-releasing an episode from waaaay back in August of 2019, all about Atlanta’s Carnegie Libraries. It's not only a story of where we keep books, it’s also a story of gender, power, race and access to information. Before the age of technology and the internet, books represented knowledge, and knowledge is power. Keeping that power a…
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Science & Technology Museum of Atlanta (SciTrek)
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This week, I am covering one of my most requested topics, the Science & Technology Museum of Atlanta, better known as SciTrek. I didn’t grow up here and so I love hearing people’s stories of classic Atlanta memories or experiences that really defined their childhood and one of these is definitely SciTrek. The way that current Atlantans reminisce ab…
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This week, we’re talking about basketball - from the invention of the game, when it arrived in Atlanta, who played it and where, and all the way into the story of our professional teams today. Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta - and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictoriale…
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This week, we’re talking about an Atlanta radio icon - WABE-FM. Located at 90.1 on your radio dial, the station has a fascinating history that dates back to the 1940s. So this week, we’re talking about radio history, the educational radio movement, who funded the station here in Atlanta, who it was for and how it became the public radio institution…
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This week, in honor of the upcoming Peachtree Road Race, we are talking about the origin of the world’s largest 10K and the organization that sponsors it, the Atlanta Track Club. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | TwitterBy Victoria Lemos
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Surprise! Yes - I am still on the podcast break and I will be back officially on June 14th with fun new episodes, but while I’ve been gone I was a guest on another amazing Atlanta podcast, Savory Stories. Savory Stories is a WABE podcast about Atlanta’s rich stories through the lens of cuisine and food history. It’s hosted by Chef Asata Reid and cu…
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2024 Pride Kickoff Party / The Eagle - Wilton Manors, FL [LIVE SET]
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I hope you enjoy the first two hours of my extended 6-hour live set from The Eagle in Wilton Manors, Florida this past weekend! I will be back at The Eagle on Friday, August 2nd -- so mark your calendars! 🙌🏻Listen & Follow on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3yUptFeBy DJ JOSHUA D
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In this episode, Dr. Kate and Dr. Kacy interview Dr. Lyndsay Centrowitz, A running medicine specialist based out of Park City, Utah. As the wife of a professional runner and though her experience treating elites of the Bowerman Track Club and beyond, Lyndsay has an incredible perspective on runner health at all levels. This one is a fun conversatio…
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This week, we’re talking about Vine City. This neighborhood just west of downtown Atlanta has SO much history, I struggled to fit it all in; from quarries, early German immigrants, to the largest nursery operation in the city, Black amusement parks, so many historic homes, and a prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement, and Dr. King - you do not…
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Dr. Kate and Dr. Kacy explain just why they've been a little inconsistent with podcasting - it's for good reasons, we promise! Then, they dive into some random PT topics in this "riffing" episode, including some insightful questions by some of their best teachers - their patient's! In this episode you'll get asnwers about: -Why it's important to sl…
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This week, I’m talking about Atlanta’s International Pop Festival, a concert held in July of 1969, the first of its kind in the South. And while it took place 20 miles south of Atlanta proper, everything about the festival was rooted in this city. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | Twit…
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This week, we’re talking about Italian artist Athos Menaboni. In 1950, Time Magazine declared Menaboni the heir of James Audubon, because of his bird paintings that spanned over 150 different species. But this isn’t just a story about art and animals - it’s also a love story, a story about finding your calling after the age of 40, and the unsung ro…
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This week, we’re talking about Waffle House. Opened in 1955, in Avondale Estates, we’re covering the two men that started it, the first locations, franchising, expansions, controversies and legal issues and even the Waffle House Index. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | Twitter…
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In 1911, Atlanta’s population was only 150,000 people and the idea of Commerce Schools was new - only two operated in the South; one at Louisiana State and the other at Washington and Lee. Georgia State was born from Georgia Tech’s idea of starting an evening school, was later part of UGA and fought hard to become an independent institution. In thi…
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This week, we’re talking about Piedmont Hospital. From its start as a small sanitarium in 1904, the doctor that started it, its numerous expansions, the move to Peachtree Street and the impact it had on Atlanta. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | Twitter…
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Spring is here and if you’re in Atlanta, everything has just started to bloom. I decided it’s the perfect time to re-release my episode from 2021 about the history of the Dogwood Festival in Atlanta. This year’s festival is happening April 12-14th, and so you have time to listen in for a deep dive into this blooming tree, why it’s associated with A…
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This week, we’re talking about Georgia’s only remaining velodrome - the Dick Lane Velodrome in East Point. We're talking about what a velodrome is, Atlanta’s first velodrome, Dick Lane and the decade long efforts to open this velodrome in East Point. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | T…
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March is Women’s History Month, and researching women is my very favorite thing to do. So while I was brainstorming an episode idea, I realized I had this huge collection of women on my list whose stories were very short - in terms of research, not the length of their lives or quality of achievements. This week I have collected these shorter storie…
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This week, I picked up the story of Coca-Cola after it’s sold in 1919 and took it through the Great Depression, World War II, Civil Rights, the Cola Wars, Diet Coke, New Coke and the World of Coca Cola. Book Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | Twitter…
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This week, I am sharing my conversation with Antar Fierce, a graffiti historian, educator and archivist to learn about the history of graffiti, especially writing. Graffiti is loosely defined as words, drawings, or writings in public view - something that humans have created since the dawn of time. Writing developed first in the 1960s in Philadelph…
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Lincoln Country Club + Golf Course Desegregation - REPLAY
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This week I am re-releasing an old episode from the archives, but I also wanted it to coincide with Black History Month. From the summer of 2021, this is about Lincoln Country Club and the fight for Golf Course Desegregation. Born at the start of the Great Depression, from the need and desire of middle and upper-class Black Atlantans to not only pl…
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66. Emma Grace Hurley: Making the Cross Country US Team
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Sometimes, change can be a good thing. Dr. Kate and Dr. Kacy catch up with professional runner Emma Grace Hurley shortly after she made her first US team, placing second at the USATF 10km Cross Country Championship. Emma Grace, or EG as many call her, recently moved from her home state of Georgia to follow coach Andrew Begley to Indianapolis, where…
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Blandtown (Interview w/ Rhana Gittens Wheeler)
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This week, I had the honor to sit down with Dr. Rhana Gittens Wheeler to ask her about her research of Blandtown, a historically African American neighborhood on the westside of Atlanta that dates to the 1870s. We talked about the neighborhood’s history, the wrong history that had been out there, annexation, zoning and developers' efforts to rebran…
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The Rap Map (Interview w/ Brennan Collins + Panther Lattimore)
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This week, we’re talking about The Rap Map with Georgia State's Professor Brennan Collins and student Panther Lattimore. The map chronicles a decade’s worth of rap lyrics referencing different Atlanta locations, connecting popular culture with local history and pinpoints the lyrics of Atlanta hip hop artists to create a map of the city based on nar…
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Atlanta is home to 242 different neighborhoods that each have their own names and history, but this week, we’re talking about the smallest - Just Us. Consisting of two streets sandwiched between the neighborhoods of Mozley Park, Ashview Heights, Hunter Hills and Washington Park, Just Us has a short but fascinating origin story that includes some of…
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This week’s mini episode is an Atlanta-adjacent topic but one still very intertwined with the city’s history. If you’re new here, Georgia is the peach state, but in this episode we’re going to delve into the history. Why peaches? Where were the peaches? And the most important question of all - why is it named Peachtree Street and why are there so m…
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If you’re listening in real time, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, and while many know about his birth home and church, there are so many other places in Atlanta connected to Dr. King and his family that I want to share. So this week I want to go through those sites, give you the addresses, a little history and hopefully allow everyone to do a…
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This week, I am tackling a giant of Atlanta history, the famed soft drink Coca-Cola. There is, understandably, a lot to cover so I am breaking this out into two parts and this week we’re talking about Pemberton, Candler, cocaine, caffeine and the only historic Coca Cola building that still stands. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: the…
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It’s my last episode of 2023 and I thought why not take you along on a highly specific, random rabbit hole that I’ve recently fallen into. I loved the story of the Alkahest Magazine, because it includes the history of magazines, Lyceum lectures, Chautauqua, the American enlightenment and so much more. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email:…
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This week’s episode is about the Junior League, specifically its origins in Atlanta. Who started it, who were members and what did they accomplish in their history? Starting with the Butterfly Ball in 1916, the Junior would open a domestic science school, a speech school, two tearooms, fund a ward at the children's hospital, volunteer at Grady, ste…
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This week, I am re-releasing an episode from April of 2022, covering the fascinating history of the Atlanta Humane Society, from the formation of the Atlanta Branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1871, to its reorganization as the Atlanta Humane Society in 1890. The early AHS fought for the better treatment of hack and d…
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This week I am sharing a conversation with Eli Dickerson about trees; what kind of trees we have in Georgia/Atlanta, the oldest trees in the city, the largest, and historic. We also cover counting tree rings, Champion Trees, old growth forests and Eli shares the story of a very special beech tree that connected him to history. NOAA Tree Ring Databa…
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This week we’re talking about two pieces of Atlanta history - one, a neighborhood wiped out by urban renewal and the other, the showpiece Atlanta Civic Center that was built in its place. By the turn of the 20th century, the name “Buttermilk Bottom” was used to describe the area bordered by Piedmont Avenue on the West, North Avenue on the North, Bo…
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Way, way back in Episode 3 I talked about two downtown hotels. And looking back, I think it was a mistake to bury the story of the Heart of Atlanta Motel, because it is so important and historic and shows Atlanta’s impact on the nation, but it also has one of the best divine retribution endings of any history I have researched in my 5 years of podc…
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Moonshine, Day Trippers + the Birth of NASCAR (Interview w/ Will Edmonds)
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This week’s interview episode with Will Edmonds, who produces Anecdotal ATL is all about with moonshine history of the pre-Civil War era, through the illegal liquor trade, how and why it centers in Dawsonville, GA and then we get into the colorful characters of Raymond Parks, Walter Day, Carl Lloyd Seay, Roy Hall, and Red Vogt. Many people know the…
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Adaptive reuse is defined as the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for. This week, I am diving into eight (8) of Atlanta’s former school buildings that have been adaptively-reused into residential units, from the oldest to the newest school building. Want to support this podca…
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For Halloween, Liz Clappin (Tomb With A View) and I are talking about the history of cremation and why Atlanta did not get its first crematorium until the 1980s, which is a century behind the rest of the United States. It’s a story of race, religion, class and tradition and you don’t want to miss it. Follow Tomb With A View on IG Want to support th…
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65. Tom Nohilly: Atlanta Track Club Elite Coach
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In episode #65 of the podcast, Dr. Kate and Dr. Kacy interview the new elite head coach of the Atlanta Track Club, Tommy Nohilly. Tommy brings with him an extensive background and experience in running both as an athlete and coach. Tommy began his career as a high school track and field athlete and excelled at the steeplechase, which he continued r…
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In 1934, W.A. Scott was a hugely successful entrepreneur, with a publishing empire and a brand-new 4th marriage. As he pulled his car into his garage one late night, he is shot by an unknown assailant. One week later he'd be dead. We may never know who killed W.A. Scott, but this week we're talking about his life, why someone would want him dead an…
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This week, I have collected the stories of Emily Battey, Isma Dooly and Mildred Seydell into Part II of my Women of Atlanta series. The three women we’re talking about today are all white, all upper class but they all share the same profession - albeit decades apart - and were writers and journalists and way ahead of their time. Leave your Atlanta …
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The Atlanta Newspaper scene today is dominated by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, but even before their existence as two separate papers, there are several forgotten publications from Atlanta’s founding. Today we are going to cover those early papers, who ran them, what you could find in them and how long they lasted. Leave your Atlanta Ghost Sto…
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64. Ronnel Blackmon: Do the Hard Things
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In episode #64 of the podcast, Dr. Kate and Dr. Kacy interview the voice of the Atlanta Track Club, Ronnel Blackmon. Ronnel discusses how training for the upcoming NYC marathon has sparked a renewed love of running (he ran high school track) and how he uses running as a platform to inspire others, cultivate community, and give back to others. Ronne…
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This week about nursing - the earliest history of the profession, the city’s first nursing programs and schools, how each World War impacted it, how the state regulated the profession and talk about some of the men and women who made history as nurses. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram |…
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