The Brookhaven Theatre at 4012 Peachtree Road opened in May 1938. The first film to be shown was Heidi, starring Shirley Temple. In the early years, tickets were twenty-five cents until 6:00 p.m.

Christmas in Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan was playing at the Brookhaven Theatre in February of 1946. The original release was August of 1945.

According to the December 1917 issue of The City Builder, a publication of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, a Commission on Training Camp Activities was formed for World War I encampment Camp Gordon in Chamblee, Georgia, Fort McPherson, and the aviation program at Georgia Tech. The purpose of the committee was to “organize the social life of the communities…which will mean a healthy reaction upon the camps.” (The City Builder is available online as part of the Atlanta History Center archives)

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.