Buckhead

“Buckhead isn’t what it used to be.” That could be the tagline for Atlanta’s best-known neighborhood, where politicians, rappers, blue-bloods, and the nouveau riche (and oh yeah, the governor) mingle with apartment dwellers, the cash-poor, and the entirely normal people; where fine international dining meets light-beer pub crawls; where Atlanta’s whitebread history of private schools and gated mansions are inextricably linked to (and incredibly removed from) the city’s African-American and urban fabric. In the mid-20th century, Buckhead was a rustic, white, middle-class bastion of high-school hoo-rahs and church Sundays. By the turn of the millennium, it was known internationally as the site of a double murder outside of a nightclub after the Super Bowl. Locally, it has long served as a derisive moniker for anyone who seemed too materialistic or entitled: “She’s very Buckhead, yes?” Today, the old commercial center—the Buckhead Triangle at Peachtree, Paces Ferry, and Roswell—is a redesigned, high-end shopping district. But some of the best places of Buckhead’s history still remain the same.

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OK Cafe

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1284 West Paces Ferry Road Northwest
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In physics, power is the rate of doing work. In America, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The dimension of power is energy divided by time. The dimension of power breakfast is the boundless energy of Atlanta’s real estate titans and dealmakers divided by the 2-hour period of 7 to 9 A.M. Burning a unit of CRE power in Atlanta in the presence of a Confederate flag and waitresses who still have to bobby pin those little hairpieces to their crowns releases enough energy to power the entire W. Paces Ferry corridor and the dreams of The Shops of Buckhead. That is the only explanation for why OK Cafe burst into flames in December 2014, as Atlanta was resuming its residential and office building boom in an exhilarating emergence from a crippling economic recession.

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Fantasyland Records

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