"Gone but not Forgotten in Atlanta" (Buford, Lenox: housing, horse)

[Longagoandfaraway]

Saw Jon Anderson of Yes play there in 1982. What a great pick up bar!

[Old Dawg]

[quote=Tinkertude;19269531]Loved that place! We called it the BAI - the full name was the Bavarian Alpine Inn. It was just a little restaurant that served beer and wine and had a good jukebox. Looked like the old IHOPs inside. It was actually between Shallowford and Clairmont on the access road off I-85 South. They tore it down when they widened I-85 and made the access roads contiguous. There were apartments on both sides of the expressway there - I think they were called something like

The GEX was at Shallowford and I-85, in the NE quadrant of the intersection,
just before the North 85 Drive In . BAI was between North Druid Hills Exit and the intersection of Cheshire Bridge and Buford Highway. When they widened the Expressway it went bye bye. Crazy place. It was a franchise type of place from the Budweiser/Busch Beer folks. It could get rowdy.

[Kerrye123]

Hey Pogo Bouncer, This is Kerry....I was the manager at Pogo's many years ago...saw your post here!

[Kerrye123]

Hey Jeff Scrembs, this is Kerry. I was the manager at Pogo's and Packets! Saw your post here!

[0nyxStation]

WHere was Pogos? What is there is now?

[Kerrye123]

Pogos was on Buford Highway, in the Northeast Plaza shopping center. It opened late in 1976 and became Packet's nightclub around 1981. I think it's a fabric store now?

[primaltech]

Anyone remember Incredible Universe, which only existed for a couple years in the mid-90's? (Whole chain went defunct in early 1997)

I was just at the right age that I remember it vividly, and it was like my favorite place. They had tons of everything related to electronics and video games, and there was a 'stage' area in the middle where you could face off with others in whatever featured games they had. It was so cool. I remember winning some kind of little tournament they had one day playing a PSX basketball game. Place was a blast.

And it was HUGE. It was this entire building, which is now split between Dave & Buster's and Havertys Outlet:

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9489.../data=!3m1!1e3

We lived in Gwinnett at the time... not sure if there were any other locations in the Atlanta metro, but I don't think so.

[jeoff]

Does anyone remember “Dinosaur World” in the early 1980s? Life-sized model dinosaurs set outside. I believe it was in Gwinnett off 78 where the “Canon” used car lot currently is. It was sort of neat, if you were a kid that liked dinosaurs, but I don’t think think that the guy who put it together had much of a plan on how it would make money. For a few years after it closed, I remember seeing a few of the exhibits scattered in different fields in Gwinnett.

[Ga Jerk]

Originally Posted by ronthatus

...a skating rink that was located off Mountain Industrial (can't remember the name)

Plantation.

[Budadahal]

Originally Posted by WhereEverYouGoThereYouAre

Ano (In it's all too short lived, prime. Buckhead)
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Kiyo-ya I & II (Pershing Point)

Bangkok (Tommy's, Ansley)

Gojinka (Doraville)

Sidney's (Roswell Rd.)

Steve's Ice Cream (Across from Colony Square)

Walter Mitty's (Atkins Park)

Kublai Khan's (All You Can Eat) Mongolian House Of Beef

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He's Not Here

Kiyo-ya! I used to work in there in the late 80s.