If you were in Atlanta in 1954, you could have seen White Christmas at the Fox Theatre. The film was based around the song by the same name, which Irving Berlin wrote for Bing Crosby in 1940. Holiday Inn (1942) was the first film featuring the song White Christmas and the song won the Academy Award Best Music/Original Song category that year.

Around 1924, when the Roswell Railroad was no longer operational, the Dunwoody Depot was rolled up Chamblee-Dunwoody Road on logs to a new location. The Depot was originally located between where CVS and Chevron are today on Chamblee Dunwoody Road. The new location was the southwest corner of the intersection of Chamblee Dunwoody Road and Mount Vernon Road, where BP is today.

2015 marks 50 years since United States troops entered Vietnam and 40 years since the war ended. A group that has worked for years to promote patriotism, assist new veterans, and honor the families of those who lost their lives serving in Vietnam is the Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association. Two members of that organization, Art Katz and Bryan Tate, shared some of their personal experiences from the war.

In 1917, the soldiers of Camp Gordon were having a Thanksgiving different than any other they ever experienced. Camp Gordon was a World War I encampment built earlier that year in Chamblee, Georgia. The soldiers missed their family and friends, but the camp made it a special occasion by planning a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast and printing a program with the menu.

This is the home of Carlton Renfroe, who moved there with his family in 1941. Mr. Renfroe, his parents, two brothers and three sisters lived in a home at the intersection of Techwood Drive and Harris Street in Atlanta prior to moving to Dunwoody. They had bought the Tilly Mill Road home in 1925, but Mr. Renfroe’s mother said she would only move there when the road had been paved and phone service was available. That happened in 1941 and the family became residents of Dunwoody.

The DeLong family once owned one hundred fifty-five acres in the Dunwoody community along what is now Spalding Drive. Today this land is part of Sandy Springs in Fulton County, but when the DeLongs lived there it was part of Milton County.

In the 1920s through 1940s, there were several summer homes in the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs area. These were homes, often with many acres and referred to as farms, of wealthy Atlanta families. This blog post will share history of three of these properties.

Dr. William Alfred Mendenhall is remembered fondly by folks that grew up in Chamblee, Doraville, and Dunwoody in the 1940’s and 1950’s. He had an office and small hospital, known as Chamblee Hospital, where Chamblee Dunwoody Road met Peachtree Road, just across from the railroad tracks.