Coke USA Sends me out with fanfare.

MOVIE WRAP ON THE COKE HEADQUARTERS

Well, I find this very fitting to be sent out with such fanfare.  The headquarters of Coke has been my next door neighbor for 20 years.  Today on my way to bed I noticed their headquarters wrapped in a movie screen.  I had a great vantage from my roof, it was real cool.

TECHWOOD HOMES

I was here when the Techwood Homes Projects in Atlanta. was a block away.  It was the very first Project build in the US.   This Project was also directly across the street from the Coke Headquarters.  If I was to be saying that I lived across the street from the city most dangerous street for about seven years, I wouldn't be telling lie.  Boy, people could hardly give property in this neighborhood away, even with the Headquarters of Coke USA across the street from me.

COKE HEADQUARTERS TODAY

 Boy, people could hardly give property in this neighborhood away, even with the Headquarters of Coke USA across the street from me.  This is a photograph of how it is today.

GEORGIA TECH CAMPUS

Georgia Tech is Three blocks away

VIEW OF COKE FROM GEORGIA TECH CAMPUS

PICTURES OF THE STUDIO WHEN I FIRST BOUGHT IT

That's when I bought an old warehouse for a crazy price, it was an old Machine Shop.  I renovated it into a home/photography studio.

I was one of the olnly two people that were doing it at the time.  Then two years later Atlanta got the Olympics.  After that Atlanta grew like kudzu.

MY MOTHER AND I 1993

This is how young I was sill in my 20's.  That is my mother painting one of my walls.  She was a great artist and is well known in my hometown of El Paso Texas.  Since this my mother passed away, the saddest day of my life.

THE CIRCUS ROLLS INTO TOWN

It was rough at first and believe me, I have seen some whacked out stuff here, most of it from my roof

This is the Circus coming to Atlanta, there are six lanes of track behind my building

TECHWOOD HOMES DEMOLISHED

Not too long after the Olympics, Atlanta tore Techwood Homes down

FROUNT OF STUDIO TODAY

Through the years, I worked hard on the building

STUDIO INTERIOR

The interior was especially nice

STUDIO COURTYARD

I had an outdoor courtyard with 20 foot tall walls

You can see a lot more pictures here.

Now it seems to be sold after a near year long process of getting a loan for the purchaser.  What now?  I'm moving to Austin Texas, my home State.