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danaoh

17 years ago

will be driving there for a long weekend in the spring - anyone have a favorite thrift store or salvage yard?

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foxygrandma9
17 years ago
I don't know anything aboute alanta, except we came through there a couple weeks ago on a trip, and boy it took us 3 1/2 hrs to get through Alanta! Sure wasn't my cup of tea LOL, just don't hit at rush hr. traffic. We did go to the burlington coat factory there.
danaoh
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17 years ago
Luckily, we don't have to drive THRU Atlanta - coming from OHio we are going to the Kennesaw area on this side of Atlanta.
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I hate to crash the party but I visited the Grayson location (as per Ellen's recommendation) last weekend and wasn't impressed. The one in woodstock might be better. From the sounds of it, it's great but I love going to nurseries and I can honestly say the Buck Jones in Grayson was an unpleasant experience and I found their selection to be in line with or slightly below what you'd find at any big box garden center. I've had the best luck finding practically everything I need at Pike Family nurseries. Each location has a different selection and I could call 100 nurseries looking for something and get nowhere (such as Land Arts who doesn't return phone calls) and then go to pikes and like a ray of sunshine beaming down from the heavens above, I will find exactly what I was looking for in exactly the size and quantity I need. Pike's is the best game in town. As close to perfect as a nursery can get I think. I haven't seen any Torreya taxifolia (aka stinking cedar) at any of the nurseries in the area. It does look like an interesting plant though, endemic to areas along the Apalachicola River. But there's other Yews that youse can use. ;-) Couldn't resist.
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cammiepaul
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If you have time on your long weekend to run up to Hewell's Pottery in Gillsville, Ga, I promise it will be worth the trip. They make the heavy terra cotta garden ware that you will find in the garden centers; you know the ones that you canÂt afford. They make all of it by hand, and the entire family works there. I think that it is pretty cool to see. And the prices are really great.
sugarhill
17 years ago
My Favorite Place on Peachtree Industrial Blvd in Chamblee (a suburb). Peachtree Industrial is an exit off of I-285 (the ring around Atlanta). Take the P'tree Industrial exit that goes south. My Favorite Place is a couple of miles inside 285 on the right.
Everyone I know who is seriously into junk loves this place.
girlgroupgirl
17 years ago
I live in downtown Atlanta, and we used to junk and thrift regularly.
There are no more "good" salvage yards left in Atlanta. It's a shame, but it is true. They are mostly new builders salvage with modern windows etc, new doors etc. The good places with really old stuff are called Architectural Salvage and anything in those stores costs a pretty penny.

However there are still some good thrifting areas. We have a lot of thrift stores. Where in the area will you be staying?

GGG

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