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Old 02-10-2021, 09:29 AM
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The iconic Krispy Kreme on Ponce in midtown burned overnight. Shaquille O'Neal owned that location and promised it would be built back better than ever. Building dated back to 1965.

They had a free donut day for graduates last May and the line was wrapped around the building several times!

In any event, for miles around this morning, the air was filled with the smell of Krispy Kreme donuts. Last whiff of that you will get for a while. We could definitely smell it driving down Freedom Parkway.
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Old 02-10-2021, 09:43 AM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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Awe, man - that's sad! Place was certainly iconic if nothing else. Actually, we saw this on the national news this morning way down here on the coast.
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Old 02-10-2021, 10:04 AM
 
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The iconic Krispy Kreme on Ponce in midtown burned overnight. Shaquille O'Neal owned that location and promised it would be built back better than ever. Building dated back to 1965.

They had a free donut day for graduates last May and the line was wrapped around the building several times!

In any event, for miles around this morning, the air was filled with the smell of Krispy Kreme donuts. Last whiff of that you will get for a while. We could definitely smell it driving down Freedom Parkway.
Here’s a link to an Atlanta forum chat thread post with a link to a news story on it:

https://www.city-data.com/forum/60369699-post1097.html
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Old 02-10-2021, 10:08 AM
 
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Here’s a link to an 11Alive news story about the fire at the historic Krispy Kreme in Midtown:

Fire tears through historic Atlanta Krispy Kreme on Ponce - It left significant damage to the backside of the structure.

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This historic location opened more than 60 years ago, opening the same year as Atlanta Fulton County Stadium in 1965. It was one of the first established outside the young company's main bases of operation in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Nashville...

... The store was a fixture in the fabric of Atlanta life - when thousands of mourners came to the city for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral in April 1968, the Krispy Kreme donated 150 dozen donuts to local churches who were trying to keep the people fed.
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Old 02-10-2021, 01:57 PM
 
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It'll be back.
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Old 02-10-2021, 01:58 PM
 
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Don't want to be that guy but can we tear it down and build something here more useful? Krispy Kreme can be the main tenant of the new development.
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Old 02-11-2021, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Buckhead Atlanta
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Don't want to be that guy but can we tear it down and build something here more useful? Krispy Kreme can be the main tenant of the new development.
You are very much that guy

But I agree with you. They have to keep the sign though.
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Old 02-26-2021, 09:00 AM
 
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BREAKING: Arsonist sought in fire that destroyed iconic Atlanta Krispy Kreme

https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-fi...GVQ3IHVW3SKRQ/

SOURCE: Chelsea Prince, AJC
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Old 03-03-2021, 05:18 PM
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BREAKING: Arsonist sought in fire that destroyed iconic Atlanta Krispy Kreme

https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-fi...GVQ3IHVW3SKRQ/

SOURCE: Chelsea Prince, AJC
Throw the book at him!!!!
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Old 03-03-2021, 05:57 PM
 
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Im sad that this happened.
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