This Day in History: Ultra-Modern Shopping Center Debuts in Buckhead

photo courtesy of the Atlanta Time Machine

Today is August 3rd, and if we were to turn Atlanta's clock back 53 years to this date in 1959, we'd find the ribbon being cut at “Lenox Square”, a new and innovative shopping center in Buckhead.  

Here, Georgia State University associate professor of History Dr. Clifford Kuhn revisits the historic event with WABE's Steve Goss.