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On October 20, 2003, the Atlanta City Council voted to rename Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to honor former mayor Maynard Jackson, who died June 23, 2003. The council planned to drop Hartsfield's name from the airport, but public outcry (occurring coincidentally during a debate over the state's flag ) prevented this.
Hubert Puckett. The Big Chicken is a KFC restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, which features a 56-foot-tall (17 m) steel-sided structure designed in the appearance of a chicken rising up from the top of the building. It is located at the intersection of Cobb Parkway ( U.S. 41 / Georgia 3) and Roswell Road ( Georgia 120) and is a well-known landmark ...
Cobb County International Airport. / 34.01306°N 84.59861°W / 34.01306; -84.59861. Cobb County International Airport - McCollum Field ( ICAO: KRYY, FAA LID: RYY) [ 2] is a public airport located 21 miles (34 km) northwest of the central business district of Atlanta, immediately south of the city of Kennesaw in Cobb County, Georgia ...
The system opened on December 8, 2009, to connect the airport's domestic terminal with the newly opened rental car center and Gateway Center of the Georgia International Convention Center. Unlike The Plane Train , which is underground inside the secure zone of the airport, the ATL SkyTrain is located outside the airport's secure zone and is ...
On Sunday afternoon, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International — the world's busiest airport — lost power, causing more than 1,000 flights to be grounded. As hours went on without power being ...
The Varsity is a restaurant chain in Atlanta, Georgia. [2] The main branch of the chain was the largest drive-in fast food restaurant in the world, [3] taking up two city blocks and accommodating up to 800 diners. The main location ended car-side service in 2020. [4] There are now six other branches across metropolitan Atlanta.
This is a list of airports in Georgia (U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Fulton County Airport ( IATA: FTY, ICAO: KFTY, FAA LID: FTY ), also known as Charlie Brown Field or Brown’s Field, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. It is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) west of the central business district of Atlanta. [ 1] The airport's name comes from the nickname of ...