Atlanta News 12:21 p.m. Thursday, August 27, 2009

City replaces 'Marin' Luther King sign

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta city officials quickly removed a street sign with an embarrassing typo at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive NW and Vine Street near the Atlanta University Center on Thursday.

A City of Atlanta employee holds the misspelled sign that hung on the corner Vine and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on Thursday, August 27, 2009. The sign was replaced before noon.
Johnny Crawford/jcrawford@ajc.com A City of Atlanta employee holds the misspelled sign that hung on the corner Vine and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on Thursday, August 27, 2009. The sign was replaced before noon.

Or rather, it was at the corner of “Marin” Luther King and Vine.

Typos are human, but this particular one is tougher to understand in Atlanta, where the civil rights leader was born -- and just a few blocks from Morehouse, where Dr. King attended college.

The street sign was replaced with the correct spelling.

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