Coca-Cola offers calendar for fledgling downtown attraction

Coca-Cola has produced a calendar of some of the beverage company's famous images for the fledgling Christmas on Peachtree, an indoor holiday festival launching next week in downtown Atlanta.

The 2012 calendar includes Norman Rockwell portraits of people at leisure and famous paintings of Santa from artist Haddon Sundblom.

Opening the day after Thanksgiving at 200 Peachtree Street -- the old Macy's building -- Christmas on Peachtree is designed to be a new downtown attraction, boosters said. It will offer a mix of family-friendly activities, food and shopping.

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