This is Atherton Park in Marietta by the Visitors Center, which was the Train Depot. It is named after Howard "Red" Atherton, who was Mayor of Marietta. I haven't ever talked to Red, but I have talked to his father several times when I was a teenager at Atherton Drug Store when he told me to either buy something or get out - He didn't want his drug store to be a hangout, but it was anyway.
This picture was taken in the fall years ago, on one of my morning walks. This picture doesn't show it, but in the evening it is alive with a bohemian touch. Students at tables studying, playing guitars, having deep discussions, having not so deep discussions, and of course there is usually a motorcycle or two.
Which reminds me, they had a lunch/soda counter at Atherton Drugstore. One time several of us were sitting in a booth and Larry B. bought an extra large serving of french fries. Naturally, several us us helped ourselves to the fries, reaching across the table helping ourselves. Larry B. started throwing fries at grownups sitting nearby saying, "Here! Everybody have some fries!" The lunch counter manager, Cleo grabbed Larry B. and me and physically bodily rushed us out the front door.
About 3 or 4 years later on Halloween Night in 1963 because of a leaky gas line Atherton Drugstore blew up, killing and injuring a number of people.
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