Atlanta-Empire City of the Old-World 

I worked on the I-20 I-75/85 interchange near the capital building back in the 80's. Whenever we would dig down to put in a new bridge foundation we would hit burned down Atlanta about 8' to 10' down. The charred area was generally 3' to 4' thick. After work I would climb down in the hole and dig around the burned out area. Although there was some wood and metal, glass was the main thing that survived. I found a lot of hand blown ink wells, chemical bottles and jugs. I found a few bent and twisted rifle receivers along with a cannonball or two and quite a bit of grape shot. Very interesting finds down there.

With the sudden proliferation of A.I. generated videos here on RU-vid I have to say it is very refreshing to watch a video that was put together and narrated by a genuine human being. Well done!

The flatiron building in Atlanta was actually built 5 years prior to the one in New York. 1897 in Atlanta, 1902 in New York.

The fox theater is a moorish temple just like the ones from Spain and the fact that you excluded this is disappointing especially if you're a history buff 😒

One thing about the theaters is that you feel differently inside them. This is due to a feature known as Schumann resonances.

They made all the bricks in Georgia since most of Georgia is clay soils. We also have massive outcroppings of granite and marble. I was born in Atlanta (1960’s) as was my mom (1940’s), my mothers mother(1920’s), my dads mother(1915) and father(1910) too. Both sides of my family has been in Georgia since the late 1700’s to early 1800’s. My mom grew up close to the federal penitentiary and my dad grew up right next to ga tech. My dad used to swimming in the lake at Piedmont Park and his father worked at Atlantic Steel where Atlantic Station is now. My mom, grandmother and great grand parents frequently used the trolleys and I have pictures of them walking the streets of Atlanta in the late 1930’s to mid 1940’s. I remember walking the streets of Atlanta as a young child and the tallest building at that time was the Polaris restaurant or Blue Dome as we called it. We used to drive up Stone Mountain when I was a young child. Stone Mountain was used as a refuge for many Georgia residents during Sherman’s March to the sea. The refugees lived in boxcars at the base of Stone Mountain.

You’re Carl impression was hilarious😂!!! Luv it!!!!!!! U rock!!

Another terrific video! Thanks for your work. I never knew of the 1895 World’s fair in Atlanta before. Excellent find.

I've been to Underground Atlanta many times. The Masquerade music venue has moved there. I've played there with my band. There are tunnels all underneath and around the venue to get to the different parts of it. They have 3 different concert halls (Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell.). I've also been to Stone Mountain several times. They have laser show on the mountain and a train that circumvents the mountain. So much history and culture there. It's a fun city to visit if you enjoy the arts and live music.

Underground Atlanta was definitely part of the Old World, way back when I was there I didn’t know what was going on.

Wow Im sorry but this video is terrible. The atlanta flatiron building is older than New York's... further you seem to be constantly implying things in the video yet you never actually make prescriptive statements. There is nothing in this video which has led me to doubt the history of atlanta as told my academics and historians. The constant alluding to conspiracy theories and simple factual mistakes make this video truly disrespectful to Atlanta's history. Edit: looked through your channel and I'm disappointed to see all the inane fascost conspiracies littered on it. You don't actually care about Atlanta, its history or its futute.

I live in Georgia, and if you come to do an in depth look at Atlanta, I bet several of your subscribers would relish a meet up.

Hi me again.... Destroyed by fire?!...You have mentioned and demonstrated this in photos so often before,. Interesting how often fire destroys cities. How convenient. Most recent. Maui comes to mind. UK doesn't get destroyed by fire this often. Wild fires are an issue elsewhere I know, But what makes American cities burn to destruction so readily? Is it building materials,? Layout? Certain peoples will? Evil forces or what?

Do you believe chimneys were actually free energy air conditioning? For example, that entire city in the Middle East has buildings that seem to have chimney structures which function as a type of natural air cooling.

Thanks for covering the city of Atlanta as you said you would! However, I understand that you may not want to bring up RACE in your video but you should have point out to the Audience about how during this SameTime Georgia and most of the South had Colored / Negroes in Congress and General Assemblies during the 1860s-1890. Georgia had a Colored/Negro Senator in 1870 (Jefferson Hamilton Long) ( Republican). You had the Original 33 in Camilla, Ga. Who were the original 33 Colored/Negro Republicans elected to the Georgia Assembly in 1868. You also left out the ATLANTA MASSACRE of 1906! Where they (a mob of over 5,000) burned down downtown atlanta in an effort to destroy all of the successful Colored / Negro businesses killing men, woman , and children to include a luxury Colored /Negro barbershop dubbed the Crystal Palace(?)! Something is definitely not adding up my friend!

@29:37 Georgia tech maybe they removed all the leaves so you could see the buildings better?! Various clock towers: would make sense if these were shrines. Noting many have an empty spot about big enough for a body, skull, rare book or similar RPG holy item. Fox Theaters these look like temples for sure, desecrated by superficiality, with the people out "foxed" if you will. Hollywood is full of occult symbols, I don't see why these wouldn't be. Fox movie company from the late 20s supposedly no relation to fox media company, from the 70s.

Thank you as always, for not just taking us all on an exploration of America's finest cities and architecture, but enlightening us on the _mysteries_ behind them.. 😉

I have been to the Fox Theater many times, Beautiful interior design, the sky part of the ceiling had moving stars and clouds

I am totally WOW’d at the FOX theater 😮!!!!!!

Im a sucker for state capitalS TOO. Noticing that just about every city has the same beautiful buildings???

Look at the rapid demise of Atlantas major sports coliseums, the Omni opened in 1972 and demolished in 1997, the Georgia Dome opened 1997 and imploded in 2017, Mercedes Benz Stadium opened in 2017, will it survive only 20-25 years as well?

The arcade has the same architecture as GUM (State Department Store) which is on the Red Square in my home town Moscow, Russia.

I live in Columbus and visit Newnan and Atlanta often. I'm amazed at all the old world buildings and don't believe they were built by people of our civilization living in shacks with no electricity and power tools, just carried them huge columns by horse n buggy, yea right!!

I had wanted to note major city bldg built during the Great Depression.. This art deco... built at the worse part 1930.. how did the people taxes fund them when times were so rough. Maybe it was rough only for the people and 'other people' did just fine rolling along gaining wealth. How many more city bldg were constructed at such despirate times

Maybe some buildings still harness the either iether

I Love that you are looking into the faux history of our excavated railroads!

Atlanta native and been here all 44 years. Is cool to learn something new here!

I believe Lewis & Clark was search and destroy. Since Lewis did off himself. wrong.

Very Kool my brahda. Keep up the great work!

@16:00 placing of the cornerstone. Yes rare to see construction. My time as an engineer. They're only going to place 4 of those stones in a day on a good day! Not to mention the specifics the stone has to meet before it's even placed.

The "idle hands, idle minds" ethose could have also been used at the time as a means of keeping crime low through continuous employment of the men. Working hours upwards of 80hrs/week were not unheard of in the 19th and earyly 20th centuries, especially where literal manpower for labor was concerned. In the modern context, with so many people vegged out on their phones... it really is a case of idle hands, idle minds.

Thanks!

Originally from NYC but now in Florida. Any chance we get to come up there to visit we do. Love the history. Particularly drawn to Decatur where we stay. There's something about that neighborhood that we love can't really describe why.

I’m not flowing what the narrator is “getting at”. What am I missing? Why doesn’t he come out and say it? “Idle hands idle minds”. “There’s more going on than meets the eye”. WTF?

PIedmont park used to be a starfort. YOu can tell from an old aerial shot. The lakes used to be part of the moats

Sad how modern culture has turned this metro city into a hell hole.

Not ONE SINGLE photo can be produced of anyone installing a single column of any of the 12 fairs of the days!!

Loveeed It!!!!❤

@18:44 I've never seen flames lean that far. Looks more like incoming fireballs. But either way, those chaps in front are sure relaxed about it. 26:00 the towers aren't "safe" because people would ask questions.

Atlanta became the "Empire City Of The South" after the Civil War as part of the "New South." We invented Coca-Cola after the war and hosted a Cotton Exhibition in 1895. Things were booming here in that time. We also built the first skyscraper in the Southeast. Also, the "Flatiron Building" in Atlanta is actually OLDER than the more famous one in New York City. This is not a copycat construction of NYC. The Flatiron Building in Atlanta opened in 1897, while the famous, taller one in New York opened 5 years later in 1902. There are "Flatiron" Buildings in many cities around North America, including nearby Chattanooga, Tennessee and even Toronto, Ontario.

Stone mountain is where a tectonic plate is sticking up out of the ground. This is the reason why there is so many rock quarries in the south. All that marble work that you see at the buildings downtown, especially the government buildings, are all part of stone mountain. If you was to grab Stone mountain and pull get up, it would take georgia, alabama, parts of mississippi, parts of arkansas, tennessee, a small section of kentucky, the majority of the carolinas, and a good portion of Florida and the Gulf up with it.

wait a minute! atlanta's flat iron building is older than new york's.

I understand that you’re trying to peer deeper into history, and find stories that are too often untold, but I don’t think I buy your premise. I think you put a lot of effort into your videos, and it shows, but perhaps your effort would be better used without relying on the presumption of a grand conspiracy to tell interesting stories.

Thank you for this thorough and, dare I say, loving exploration of Atlanta. I graduated from Georgia Tech, and I currently reside in Marietta. No other channel has given this city the attention she deserves. I'm honestly a bit choked up.

I did quite a bit of exploring Georgia in 2017, I wish i had the same eyes then as i do now. I've always been an architecture junkie and somewhat of a "conspiracy" theorist - long story short, i was staying just north of Marietta and decided to visit the Georgia Guide Stones, so i took all of the backroads to get there and i noticed one peculiar thing. There were GIANT red brick churches everywhere flanked by huge cemeteries. And when i say everywhere, i mean everywhere across the land, alot of times in uninhabited areas where the population didn't call for such grand churches or structures. It makes more sense to me now... Ahhhhh - Chat Time With Carl - i wasn't sure if he would show his face in these parts again, seeimg how he is intellectually superior to us plebs. 😂😂😂

I see you did do a small section of the underground atlanta. I see a picture that has Dante's down the hatch going down the steps to the restaurant that had an alligator in a aquarium . This is an extremely small section of what was underground atlanta. I can remember going down there and driving around with my cousin's back in the 70s and early 80s. It was nowhere near this section of underground atlanta, you entered it off of Martin Luther King Jr Street where Decatur Street is. There was a bronze statue with a woman holding an eagle there. Actually it could have been a phoenix

Maybe the towers and low windows was for natural cooling? Heat rises so allows cool, low air to be pulled through the building and out the top.

People worked harder, but they didn’t have electricity, so imagine doing all that interior work by candlelight!😂

The old prison and jail in Atlanta was across the street from the Capital. The tower shown was the Hanging Tower for executions. I remember my Dad talking about this in the 1950’s. I have seen the tower many times

6:37 that is no soldier holding that rifle. Never have I seen a rifle used in such a manner.

Statue of Isis.

Great Video!

We are told that General Sherman burned Atlanta to the ground. However, photographic evidence of this destruction is conspicuously lacking. It seems like photographs taken back then focused on damaged railroads. However, we are told that these railroads were relatively new, having been constructed starting in 1840 and being only about 20 years old during the Civil War. It appears improbable that the destruction of a few very-new railroad crossings alone could result in the complete devastation of an entire city in such a short time frame. Maybe the "mud flood" event could have functioned as a reset for Atlanta during the Civil War by completely disrupting their electric steam-based technology. Additionally, the deliberate cutting of very old railroads might have led to severe supply line shortages. Such shortages could have triggered a massive battle for resources, where people had to fight for survival during this catastrophic event. This is what we now call the "Civil War". It happened more like the book "One Second After" describes, versus a fight over slavery. Every reset involves segregation of races and giving them a false history

“FOUNDED”, As in Found…Ed? 😉

4 years for the capitals construction seems about right. Burj Khalifa took six.

The Atlanta arcade kinda looks like the inside of a prison block.

Who an why authorizes the destruction of these historical bldgs.

The park @ 3:00 is not a park but Oakland Cemetery.

Unrelated to ATL (sorry) but one of the biggest contradictions in early construction I've seen is how the beach by the World's fair in Chicago was fully paved with bricks and cement before the fair and yet a document from that time says it was done for the fair or during those buildings' construction. It's like 5 miles of paved coastline in 1880 or something like that which is insane.

the carl sagan action figure & comedy bit was funny

Oglethorpe University .....could be interesting subject to explore! Very interesting architecture!

29:13 what an ominous photo... Yes there's something significant there or even deep down below

The map at 1:18 is wrong. Milton county is were Forsyth county is on the map. The the early 1930s Georgia state legislature did away with Milton, Campbell counties and the small northwestern part of Dekalb to make Fulton county. Map maker did layout the northern border of the city of Atlanta that was part of Dekalb county.

Fulton County has been the center of much activity lately, interesting.

There is an arcade same layout in Providence Rhode Island standing today…

Another amazing video brother you know you should check out Hamilton Ohio they have a whole underground there's a office building with like lawyer's offices in it but it goes like four stories underground you can walk down there and you can see that there's halls and Gates that lead off in all directions underneath the courthouse to go towards the river I mean besides that the courthouse is absolutely amazing old world I mean it looks like a Roman Greco freaking Hall of Justice or something with dude standing on top or an Indian on top but peace love and light another great video man keep up the good work

Many Old World Buildings are still on the Ga Tech Campus

At 23:15 It is a hangar or similar building for technical maintenance of whatever craft they had before the pirates took over. The long balconies are basically platforms at three levels, to access bottom, mid and top sections of whatever craft was stored there. Shopping centre is for sheep, they repurposed building to entertain the mass of unwashed slaves who didn't remember anything.

It was a similar mall like arcade downtown St Louis when I was a kid with the same end to end sky lights with parallel columns, floors, and balconies. It was called St Louis Centre.

Great video! Something interesting about the Atlanta Flatiron building is that it was actually constructed prior to the New York Flatiron building. Ik its very random but it caught my attention lol.

I have many recent photos of Milledgeville Ga. Another Old World City. Please let me know if you want me to send them to you and at what email address. Thanks for what you do.

You forgot the Swan house. Check that one out.

@18:15 it represents mystery Babylon.

U crack me up with that Carl business 😂❤ from London uk

Atlantialiens =MAYANS

Love Georgia. Was waiting for long for some information. Always was puzzled with Atlanta's name.

@5:04 look at that clown 2nd from the left. They knew how to keep morale high. When I was in the Corps no one got to stand around like that nor a take photo of it. ...all the top brass in that photo, no ribbons, no medals...

Just like Ukraine. Supposed to be a war but the leader attends the Grammys 😂

surprised you didnt mention ponce city market

There's a whole other downtown under Rome Georgia complete with windows and old storefronts. And they dug out the railroad

Temporary buildings? Nothing here in UK was built for temporary. Buildings were built to stand for ever, and they still do... Again this is representative of the Hollywood mentality. Although I do realise that Hollywood didn't exist at this time. Who builds anything for temporary? Isn't mans very existence recognition

And they did it all at a time when people were still driving around and carriages with wooden wheels being pulled by horses

My great grandfathers worked on the railroads in Atlanta.

I have recently discovered these ideas, I'm super into it. I live in Atlanta, so I have some things to investigate. Thanks!

Now...Atlanta is just Chicago South. It USED to be a beautiful city with great suburbs...now that "Atlanta Cancer" has spread for many miles and ruined places like Roswell, Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, etc.

The Statute represents the Blue Beam - at Mt Muru - Surviving the last Apocalypse. All of them do. So Columbia - yes Columns - For more - JayDreamerZ

I am largely a fan of the tartarian mudflood brick buildings theory but the idea of cities growing fast being some kind of anomaly just ignores the reality of the exponential growth of any population of living populations with access to vast resources. Disease raced ahead of colonists utterly decimating the indigenous of north and South America. The groups that colonists encountered were living in their own post apocalyptic collapse where over the course of the 200 years post Columbus multiple waves of disease wiped out 90 percent. We met tribes who were warring with each other because power vacuums had completely destabilized the continent and the animals and forests had exploded to unbelievable levels there were Forrest’s in America that rivaled anything from lord of the rings, topsoils as deep as 6 feet in the Midwest for producing wheat at peak nutrient density and just to name one animal there were single flocks of passenger pigeons that darkened the sky for days at a time. imagine unlimited chicken pot pies for everyone. Imagine 1 family pushing west ….for the 1800 to 1900 century producing 12 kids of which 6 survive to produce 72 kids of which 36 survive to produce 432 kids. The population growth and the growth of cities are not a mystery if you just think about it for a second.

The first capital of Georgia with Savannah 1776. I'm from Atlanta and I learned that in school. In Savannah was burnt down too. Milledgeville was not the first capital of Georgia. It was the fourth. Augusta was the second and Louisville was the third. Atlanta is the last

another fantastic video....lol so the architect was born april 1878 and finished architecture school in 1897 at 19 years old and then immediately started designing these buildings......yea.....surprised he didn't have to go build a drug store in Alaska first🤣

An inspiring video, all together with the city that seems to be a many splendored thing, like for instance the Chimney/Smokestack Capital of the USA. I can see why the Devil went to Georgia now. 😎 Who knows what really happened during that so-called Civil War... By Golly, those theater columns etc.are breathtaking.

I'm from Huntington, WV and there used to be a small arcade, glass ornate ceiling and all. I didn't realize at the time how unique it was.

Fantastic, dinner and a show… thanks LA! 🏛

Atlanta flat iron building was finished in 1897 and NYC flat iron was finished in 1902…

Flatiron Building is older in Atlanta.

Sorry off topic Lucius, but have you covered the Erie Canal yet?

Hey friend , I'm so grateful I stumbled upon your videos, awesome topics and presentation, I can definitely see how you have a hands up on most other community channels with your professional background in education, but used in the "real education" context 😉

And why is everyone in the world waking up at the time everyday no questions it's a loop of the history over and over again where T F am I nobody's even talking about any of anything that's different from what is from the senses

There are several underground levels. It would be so great to see them all in a new video!

Now its a really big ghetto.

@17:50 I know you let us decide... I feel the statue of Liberty but could it be queen Anne? Thinking of powerful women in the 1700 and 1800's? I'm actually asking you, haha hope u see this 😊👍