Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Night of the Killer Peachtrees

Peachtree Street
West Peachtree Street
Peachtree Road
Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
Peachtree Lane
West Peachtree Place
Peachtree Center
Peachtree Center Avenue
Peachtree Walk (?)
Peachtree Parkway

I'm sorry, but this has gone too far, too too far. I know we're all addicted to peaches, you may have even married one, but this has GOT to stop. We passed the cliffs of criminal insanity and deadly peach addiction approximately 1500 miles back and something's gotta give.

So, let's change some of the names.

For starters, there should not be three Peachtrees on the same block (Peachtree Lane to the North, West Peachtree Street to the West and Peachtree Road to the East) so let's change the name of West Peachtree Street to Heisman Bouleveard, to honor John Heisman, one of the most important figures in Modern Football and Athletics in general, and a great Atlantan who coached Tech for years. Peachtree Lane should be changed to Station Street or Midtown Center, as the MARTA Midtown station is right there from the sidewalk. Peachtree Walk can be changed to Scarlett Street, as it is close to both the Margaret Mitchell House and the Federal Reserve Bank Branch.

Oh, and one more thing, why do we have a street called "Boulevard?" Why not call it Robert E. Lee Boulevard in honor of Atlanta's Civil War and Southern History? Bring some soul back in to this city before all them PC people suck it right out.

I am blaming all of this on Jimmy Carter.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was once said that if one got on the wrong Peachtree, one could go all the way to N.C. and not realize it. I remember when we first moved to Atlanta and I was traveling from Roswell/Sandy Springs on Spalding and when it turned into Peachtree at the Gwinnett County line, I thought for sure that I was lost! I, too, am blaming that on Jimmy Carter!