The fire was January 2, 1979, my grandmother’s birthday. I grew up about a half-mile from it, as the crow flies. I remember the stores that were in the building (from the left):
A cookie shop, Emory Cinema, a yogurt shop, Dawgwood Sandwich Shop (where the fire started), Doo-Dah Records (I bought Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” there for $3.88 from R.E.M. guitarist Pete Buck, maybe), University Bookstore, Emory Florist and Morgan Cleaners.
Pages from the bookstore’s inventory blew all over the neighborhood, including into my yard.
I wish that an art cinema would open in Decatur (which now has more probably 40 restaurants and several buildings of condos, etc.) and all the foot traffic that could keep a theater going.
Animal House had been playing there for several weeks when the building burned. The next movie that was to have played there was Cheech & Chong’s “Up in Smoke.” How weird would that have been? I’m sure I have a photo of the cinema in some old high school yearbooks and I will scan & post.
The fire was January 2, 1979, my grandmother’s birthday. I grew up about a half-mile from it, as the crow flies. I remember the stores that were in the building (from the left):
A cookie shop, Emory Cinema, a yogurt shop, Dawgwood Sandwich Shop (where the fire started), Doo-Dah Records (I bought Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” there for $3.88 from R.E.M. guitarist Pete Buck, maybe), University Bookstore, Emory Florist and Morgan Cleaners.
Pages from the bookstore’s inventory blew all over the neighborhood, including into my yard.
I wish that an art cinema would open in Decatur (which now has more probably 40 restaurants and several buildings of condos, etc.) and all the foot traffic that could keep a theater going.
Animal House had been playing there for several weeks when the building burned. The next movie that was to have played there was Cheech & Chong’s “Up in Smoke.” How weird would that have been? I’m sure I have a photo of the cinema in some old high school yearbooks and I will scan & post.