I believe they’re calling it the Ponce City Market now, but I’ll always remember it as City Hall East, or the old Sears Roebuck building. When I was in the Atlanta Jaycees in the 90s, we’d volunteer with the Empty Stocking Fund, at their Santa’s Workshop which was set up here. Across the street is the field where the Atlanta Crackers played baseball. Now, part of the Beltway Trail runs nearby.
Atlanta Street Scenes, City Hall East, 25 December 2014
Published by G. M. Lupo
G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the story collection Reconstruction (2020), part of his series of Atlanta Stories, which includes Fables of the New South (2017). Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020). He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child. View all posts by G. M. Lupo
That building used to house the yearly Flower Show. They had to move it because the drainage was so bad there.