Neighbors who have lived in North Buckhead for a while remember the "olden days" of the late 80's, before       GA-400, before the Buckhead Loop and Phipps Boulevard, back when quiet Ivy Road extended to Piedmont Road, which made for easy access to the "Disco" Kroger (on Piedmont next to the then famous Limelight Disco nightclub), and when single-family homes extended to Peachtree Road.

Those who have lived here longer remember when the  Wallis Kamera Haus (now relocated to Chastain Square and renamed "Focus Atlanta") operated on Wieuca Road where the Wing Swing restaurant (next to the La Fonda restaurant) is today.  In the interim, the building was home to the Toyotaya Sushi Train restaurant: model railway trains delivered an excellent cargo of food to the diners' tables.

Residents of the 70's remember the Dairy Queen/Brazier that used to occupy the same Wing Swing building and that the La Fonda building was occupied by the Tri-Me Deli and that, later, the current Filini's Pizza restaurant, once a laundry, was a Radio Shack store. They may also remember that Wieuca Road used to dead-end beyond Peachtree Road and there was a Pier 1 Imports store and a convenience store down there.

But let's go back. Way back. In the late 20s the Peachtree Gardens Clubhouse (N Ivy Road at Buff Drive) opened up, destined to host social functions for decades. A member of the Collins family (Loridans Drive residents at the time) says that, "[I] attended many dances (high school proms) at Peachtree Gardens Clubhouse. It was elegant in its day." She continues that, "There were several 'pockets' of        African-Americans living in Carmain, Loridans, Stratford, Ivy area in the 40's-50's. [I] took food to them as a child, and was told the old cemetery was theirs."

The cemetery was the subject of a November AJC "City Life" article, focusing on KC and Mercedes Smith's [Statewood Drive] efforts to make the public aware of the Lowrey and Stevens family cemetery (on city property at Loridans Drive by GA-400). The graves are unmarked, though some say they have seen their depressions in the ground in the winter time.

If you would like to work on a project to find/mark these graves and clean up North Buckhead's only cemetery, or if you have neighborhood history for us to publish, please email gcertain@nbca.org, call 404-231-1192, or mail NBCA at P.O. Box 420391, Atlanta 30342.