Atlanta doesn’t lack for city pride, so it always stings when an otherwise reasonable person finds fault with one of our city’s jewels. The reviewers on Yelp can be a finicky lot, as Mother Jones discovered last month. Inspired by that magazine’s critical tour of our country’s national parks, we’ve assembled some rather tart takes on our own public spaces.
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Credit: HANDOUT
Oakland Cemetery
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Credit: Brandon Camp / Special
Krog Street tunnel
Credit: Pete Corson
Credit: Pete Corson
Goat Farm
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Credit: AJC staff
Stone Mountain
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Credit: hshin@ajc.com
Grant Park
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Credit: bandres@ajc.com
State Capitol
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Credit: JOHN SPINK / AJC
Piedmont Park
Bonus: The Piedmont Park robot bathroom
The self-cleaning bathroom at the park’s Charles Allen Drive entrance has nearly two dozen reviews all in itself. Here are a few of the negative ones.
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