Residents of DeWald’s Alley rented from Clyde and Susie DeWald, who lived nearby on Spruill Road, later known as Meadow Lane Road. Susie DeWald would go door to door collecting rent each month. The houses of DeWald’s Alley had outhouses, no electricity, and well water. Pumps were eventually installed.

In 1932, he sold the dairy farm and bought 138 acres in Chamblee. He and wife Lucy Hurt Fischer built a home with elaborate gardens, calling it Flowerland. The home was designed by Phillip Trammel Shutze.

According to an article in the Sunday American Newspaper (the Sunday edition of the Atlanta Georgian), Oct. 3, 1937, titled “Married teacher opinion divided,” in the Fulton County School System, women teachers who married would lose their jobs.

In the early 1950s, the Kiwanis Club of North DeKalb spearheaded a project to provide North DeKalb County with a park. The 165-acre property was donated by M. A. and Cora Quinn Long and Fred B. Wilson for the construction of a park in 1953.

When Ralph Glaze was a boy growing up along Winters Chapel and Peeler Road, he remembers the rumor of moonshine production between Happy Hollow and Winters Chapel Road along what is now Dunwoody Club Drive. Adults used to say, “don’t go down there,” sometimes using the story of a monster to keep children away.

7.4 miles of I-285 on the east side of Atlanta opened in 1968. The entire 64 mile circumferential highway was completed October 15, 1969, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Douglas recalls that Lonnie King conceived the Atlanta Student Movement in 1960. King (no relation to Martin Luther King, Jr.) brought students together to form the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights. His plan was to desegregate all public accommodations in the city of Atlanta.