Mystery photos
MYSTERY: Figure out where these nine smokestacks are located
Do you count nine smokestacks in this Mystery Photo? Can you figure out what this photograph represents, and where it is? If so, send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown. That Mystery Photo of the last issue was the ceiling at the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library, in Washington D.C. Ginny Harrell […]
MYSTERY: Glass ceiling, various flags may give clues
Today’s Mystery Photo may be difficult for the fact that people don’t always look up to see what the ceilings look like. Check out this glass ceiling, which is apparently surrounded by flags, and see if you can determine where it is. Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown.
MYSTERY: Two competing soft drink signs
Here’s a clue for this edition’s Mystery Photo: it’s located in Georgia, but you tell us where. Also note the juxtaposition of this store having a Coca-Cola sign against the building, with another beverage sign, of Royal Crown Cola, also sticking out from the wall. Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown.
MYSTERY: Modernistic building design seen in many buildings
Today’s Mystery Photo looks to be a smaller version of the design of buildings from not too many years ago. Somehow, it reminds us of a onetime look of the Norcross Post Office, before it was re-vamped to the present Norcross City Hall. Send in your guess as to where this is to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 22, 2024
“We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
– Etiquette Authority Judith Martin (1938 – ), also known as Miss Manners.
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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