Paris on Ponce

Ponce de Leon Avenue is one of the swankiest streets in Atlanta. It is home to trendy coffee shops, traditional southern tea rooms, sad snowman murals, majestic diners, funky neon signs, art deco movie houses, stunning trees, ATL scooters, seedy motels, Krispy Kreme doughnut shops, Our lady of the Kudzu, over the top store signs, the fabulous Fox Theatre, dogs on motorcycles, the Zesto lunchroom, the coolest Grolsch billboard, and the Paris on Ponce store.

Paris on Ponce is a three building orange colored warehouse filled with 18th century antique to new designer furniture. We passed it yesterday, on our way to another furniture store: Gado Gado where we bought an Indonesian wall mirror framed in carved teak wood.

Today, there was another kind of Paris on Ponce de Leon when the Tour de Georgia finished in midtown Atlanta. The previous tours finished in Alpharetta, at less than two miles from our home. This year, the tour finished with six laps through Atlanta. Greg had a soccer match, so we could not go to cheer on the cyclists. Maybe one day, we'll cheer them on in the real Paris.