The Georgian Terrace in Atlanta

The Georgian Terrace is across Peachtree Street from the Fox Theater at the corner of Ponce de Leon.  

I think I have only been inside only once.  The day of the month was July the 3^rd, I just don’t remember the year.  One year, the Georgian Terrace hosted the pre-party of the Peachtree Road Race (on July the 4^th every year.).  They had a spaghetti-carb loading dinner and a showroom of Peachtree Road Race stuff.

I also remember back in the 1980s when I worked the midnight shift, time keeper’s office, in Atlanta Post Office.  During the night very interesting radio shows are on.  One of them, must have been a paid radio info-commercial.  It was broadcast  from the Georgia Terrace, the announcer was “Sister Sarah” or a similar name, but I remember the “Sister” prefix.   Sister would talk a lot about Bible verses.  In fact, she read Bible verses, word by word.  But to get her special verse for the day you had to go to the Georgian Terrace, go to room number whatever, and give a “donation” and in turn Sister would give you the Bible Verse “Number” for the day.

Get it?  She was hawking the underground lottery numbers.

I don’t get it.  It seems if you were in line with your wad of money in your hand, ready to donate to her cause, wouldn’t everybody else in line be there for the same reason, and common sense would dictate there can’t be that many winning lottery numbers.

Well, P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”