North Georgia Primer Blog

Shortly after graduation from college this blogger was employed as corporate convention manager for a division of Siemens, temporarily headquartered in Atlanta’s Perimeter Center.  Few friends then had heard of the corporation. One had to spell it out and describe it as kinda like the German Gene...

When this blogger was in high school Georgia State Route 400, now known simply as “400”, was not much more than a several mile long drag strip to nowhere.  They installed the first stretch north from Sandy Springs in the 1970s, then halted for what seemed like a decade to contend with planning de...