Little did I know, I would end up as part of the preservation process.Ī joint team from Georgia State University and Emory University are currently in the process of producing GigaPan images, along with Faro laser scans, of the entire interior, in order to document the entire building and the contents. That is, until I heard that the Tavern would be preserved, despite renovations to the 108 year old building, and that the owner would retain ownership of the business, despite the land being sold out from under them. I had already seen what was being done to the area on Piedmont at Rock Springs and Cheshire Bridge Rd., and felt a small bit of what had made the area special was being lost to a construction plan that looked entirely out of place. But, even then, as I did my Masters and now PhD at GSU, Manuel’s held a cozy, wood paneled place in my heart.įear and panic gripped my heart when I heard the news that the land surrounding the Tavern and the Tavern itself were being bought out by a developer to “renovate” and “upscale” the area along North Avenue. Be it a friend’s improve group holding an event there, or just ending up there because it was central to nearly everyone in a group, the bar was a staple of my social life until I graduated in 2004 and moved to the hinterlands of Buford, Ga (or so it felt to me). When I started my undergrad work at Georgia State, my group of friends stayed fairly local as well, with those who weren’t from Atlanta originally slowly becoming settled in the city in various neighborhoods.Ī constant in all of this, either as landmark I recognized while driving, a meeting place for food, or simply hangout after a late night on campus, was Manuel’s Tavern. I walked home from Inman and Grady, nearly every day of the combined seven years I attended the schools, through the heart of Virginia Highlands. I grew up in the Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood, here in Atlanta.
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