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This is a picture of the old Glover Park and the old
Courthouse when they were the Mecca of
Cobb County residents, or the sight of them, anyway. This picture was shared on Facebook by Davis
McCollum's" Cobb County Grown" .
I don't remember seeing this picture before, it is a good one. It
brings back memories of the way the park used to be.
I walked across that park plenty of times
getting to the Strand Theater. It
usually had more than a few drunks drinking from brown paper bags and a soap
box preacher who was personally delivering the word of God - who he said he
had personally spoken to. Sometimes, you might see some one behind a
bush with both hands down to the front of his thigh area - care to guess what
he was doing?
You would see no
Afro-Americans sitting in the park. That
was the stipulation when the park was deeded by the Glover family to be a
public park, no blacks could sit in it.
How is that for "public"?
Later on when racial laws like that were stricken, a member of that
family added an amendment or stipulation to unstipulate the racial stipulation to
go with the times.
Also, a taxi company's office was in the park. True.
It had one employee, I think his name was Howard. His office was a telephone hooked to a pole
right across from the courthouse. Howard
was also known to make moonshine runs for a
certain few. Now, there is no
need for moonshine or brown paper bags.
Yuppies sip wine and beer openly at summer concerts.
Time changes. Stick
around and it will change again.
Hey! They had big goldfish with white spots in the pool at the base of the fountain too!
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