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I am going to be in Atlanta with a female friend on the afternoon of August 20th, and will be child free for approximately 3.5 hours... any natives have recommendations for how to spend that time?
Food, museums, and outdoor attractions are all valued recommendations.
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Outdoors: Stone Mountain. If you can go to the laser show, it's great. If not, there's a train to ride out there (I always drove), and you can hike up the mountain.
Museums: the Atlanta Museum of Art won't touch Chicago or MOMA, I'm sure, but it's still worth the trip.
There are often concerts at Piedmont Park. When you get there, pick up a copy of Creative Loafing (free, and found almost everywhere) to see what's up.
I never cared that much for Underground Atlanta (shops and bistros), but it exists, and if Dante's Down the Hatch is down there, you'll get some famous fondue. All up and down Peachtree, from 10th Street north into Buckhead, an ever-changing array of great places to eat. Last I heard, Dante's is also at Lenox Mall.
Little Five Points was Atlanta's (tiny) hippie hangout in the 60's, and last I saw it still had some interesting places to eat. East of there, the Dekalb Farmer's Market has things from all over the world (but you'll have to cook them yourself), and every cashier speaks multiple languages.
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Coca Cola Museum, just across the street from Underground Altanta. Everything Coke-related, vintage commercials, and, at the end, samples (as much as you can drink) of every variety of soft drink that they make all over the world. There are some oddball flavors out there -- litchi, mango, coconut. It's not high art, but it is high-fizz.
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I believe that the Coca Cola museum is free. Watch out for the gift shop at the end though...
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Center for Puppetry Arts is $8 with no show (I just took some folks there on Thursday, in fact). With a show it varies--usually I think it's $12-$14 for a show + admission to museum + a puppet-building workshop. It is much more fun than you might think. www.puppet.org for more information.
Coca Cola museum is definitely not free. I'm not sure how much it is, though.
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http://www.woccatlanta.com/ World of Coca-cola is $9. And I really don't think it's worth that. I did it and the puppet museum in one day last fall, and was far more impressed by the puppet museum. And I don't even like puppets.
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I really enjoyed the underground when I used to live near Atlanta.
The Coca-Cola museum is much cooler than it sounds, and I highly recommend it if you like museams (of the modern-history ilk) at all and don't mind spending the nine bucks.
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It's been a while for me, but I recall the bathrooms at the Coke museum are super clean (which is good, because you'll need to pay a visit after drinking all that soda). And in the soda-drinking room, there is loud music playing. Why? So no one can hear you burp.
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I would check out the Center for Puppetry Arts. I've never been but hear it's fun.
My sister's roomate did set design for a cool play there about Leonardo Da Vinci as a crimefighter, using his inventions like Batman. I missed it though. I'm not sure what's playing there now, but it's fun even if you don't see a play.
I've got to go to the Atlanta Historical Society one of these days, but I hate to go to museums alone and can't talk anyone into going.
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I wouldn't suggest Underground Atlanta, I was there (and many of the other places mentioned) last spring but was not comfortable at UA without a boy within a few feet of me, and most of the shops weren't that interesting. But there was this sort of neat magic shop, so i guess if you're doing the coke muesum and want to hit one more place, which close, it would work.
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I think all of the places suggested a good ideas. Another thing to consider is that you can park your car in a lot (perferably a watched one, but I have often left mine in some of the 4-7 dollar ones near Underground) and then take MARTA almost anywhere.
I brought a friend into town once and we blew a whole afternoon by starting at the World of Coke (and Underground) and going to the Capital then riding MARTA to the CNN building.
There are beggers in town and people will come up to you, but just keep walking or ask them to go away and they will. It's just like any other big city.
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Isn't there any kind of Gone with the Wind Museum or something in Atlanta? You'd think there would be. My ears perk up when I hear 'Peachtree street' and 'Five Points.'
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