Found this in an old guide to the city from 1977. Included at the end with "other things" including Six Flags, World of Sid & Marty Krofft and Stone Mountain:

The Wren's Nest (753-8535) --Home of Joel Chandler Harris, creator of Uncle Remus stories. Like stepping through a door into the past: nostalgic journey guided by two pleasant ladies.

Location Southwest sector, 1050 Gordon Rd.

Hours 9:30-5 (last tour 4:15) Mon. - Sat., 2pm -5pm Sunday

Price Adults $1.25, teenagers 75c, children 30c

MARTA access #10 Cascade Heights on west side of Peachtree at Peachtree Center or Five Points; return trip called #10 Peachtree-Ansley Park or Piedmont Park


I like the bold choice of having a different teenager price and who were those fabulously pleasant ladies??? BTW, those jerks at Krofft were charging $5.75!! No wonder they didn't last.

I have to agree with you about the World of Sid & Marty Krofft. We made the obligatory trip with our kids and thought it was pretty ridiculous. The best thing about it was the long escalator ride.

Andrea wrote:
I have to agree with you about the World of Sid & Marty Krofft. We made the obligatory trip with our kids and thought it was pretty ridiculous. The best thing about it was the long escalator ride.

I heard the pin ball ride was pretty trippy. On the Wren't Nest.... they just rebuilt their bathroom. It was in the non-historic part of the building so they could do it up modern:


But it's still a small room!
http://www.wrensnestonline.com/blog/

Lain over at the Wren's nest is starting a series of blogs with a very interesting take on Joel Chandler Harris's character Uncle Remus.

Part one was today, then he's going to post further analysis of this 2004 essay for the rest of the week.

Part One

Here's the gist:
I mean, what if Uncle Remus, long reckoned by many scholars and readers to be a racial stereotype and a sad vestige of Old South nostalgia, was instead a remarkably nuanced character who consistently subverted white authority and Old South social codes? Wouldn’t that be the opposite of a racial stereotype?



Looking forward to reading this!

Oops, here's the link to the original essay by Robert Cochran
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Black+father:+the+subversive+achievement+of+Joel+Chandler+Harris- a0117188856

Post edited by: trainiac, at: 2010/04/20 14:04