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Found this ad on my FB feed ....

the 1970 exploding whale



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPuaSY0cMK8

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

First Shipboard Aircraft Takeoff (1910)
A year after learning to fly, aviator Eugene Ely performed an experiment for the US Navy: he took off from a temporary platform built over the bow of the USS Birmingham, anchored off Virginia's coast, and became the first person to take off from a ship in a fixed-wing aircraft. Two months later, he performed the first shipboard landing, using the first tailhook system to land on the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay, California.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Clutter Family Murdered (1959)
In 1959, parolees Richard Hickock and Perry Smith murdered Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and their two children while attempting to rob their Kansas farmhouse. Writer Truman Capote spent the next five years researching the crime and interviewing those involved, including Hickock and Smith, who were hanged for the murders in 1965. Capote's In Cold Blood was published shortly thereafter and launched the nonfiction novel genre.

A thing I didn't know for a long while was that the railroad came from Chattanooga south, the first one, to end here.  It connected the farming products around the area with the Tennessee River and areas north.  Later, more RRs were built from east and west and south and it became a connecting point.  Early city fathers didn't like all the RRs coming through downtown as it would often block traffic (imagine that).  They are still there, but now mostly under bridges and buildings.

A new development informally called "The Gulch" is being built over the surface RRs one can see near MB stadium.  The official name is Centennial Yards.

Centennial Yards: Connecting Atlanta's Downtown Communities
Centennial Yards: Connecting Atlanta's Downtown Communities

no color pictures back then?