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10/08/2026

🚗 The official name is the Tom Moreland Interchange. Almost nobody has ever said that out loud.

Where I-85 meets I-285 northeast of Atlanta, a cloverleaf from 1958 earned the nickname Malfunction Junction. Georgia's answer was a complete rebuild: the contract was awarded in October 1982, work began on January 10, 1983, and the ribbon was cut on July 9, 1987. At the time it was the most expensive contract the Georgia Department of Transportation had ever awarded, and the final cost ballooned to $86 million.

The result is a five-level stack with 12 ramps, 14 bridges and 36 retaining walls, the tallest bridge rising 90 feet. It handles about 300,000 vehicles a day and consistently ranks among the worst traffic bottlenecks in the country. Atlanta grew faster than the fix.

What is your survival strategy for Spaghetti Junction?

Photo: Elaine Chambers, CC BY-SA 3.0

10/07/2026

✈️ The busiest airport on earth started out as a failed dirt racetrack that nobody wanted.

On April 16, 1925, Atlanta mayor Walter Sims signed a five year lease on 287 acres south of town. The rent was nothing. The land was an abandoned auto speedway, and the city agreed to turn it into an airfield. As part of the deal the property took the name of its former owner, the Coca-Cola man and former mayor Asa Candler, and became Candler Field.

Think about what Atlanta had at that point. No ocean port. No great navigable river. What it had was railroads and a willingness to bet on whatever came next. In 1925 the next thing was airmail.

The first plane landed on September 15, 1926, a Florida Airways mail flight up from Jacksonville. Pitcairn Aviation started service in May 1928 and later became Eastern. Delta Air Service arrived in June 1930. By the end of that year only New York and Chicago had more daily flights. The first control tower went up in March 1939. The name changed to Atlanta Municipal Airport in 1942, and to Hartsfield in 1971.

Today the same ground handles more passengers than any airport in the world, well over a hundred million a year. All of it grew out of a racetrack that failed and a lease that cost the city nothing.

What is the first thing you remember about flying out of Atlanta?

Photo: NASA, International Space Station, 2022

09/30/2026

Does anyone remember when this had a rooftop digital billboard…….sigh.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/landmark-vacant-building-near-spaghetti-junction-get-53m-makeover

DeKalb County officials issued a land disturbance permit for the redevelopment of the long-vacant former Presidential Hotel near Spaghetti Junction. MORE BELOW⬇️

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08/23/2026

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07/18/2026

I spy Big Outdoor at the Domain, Austin ❤️

06/28/2026

They're Coming Home! (To Atlanta) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

England has won Group L and will play in Atlanta Stadium on July 1st at 12 PM ET!