davison's

you know an atlanta native if they remember davison's---evolving out of a dry-goods store that opened in 1891, davison-paxon-stokes, or davison's for short, was rich's main rival---in march 1925, just as rich's was finishing the building where i now work, davison's was acquired by r.h. macy---it remained "davison's" until 1985 when the name was discontinued---in 1927 davison's opened its new store on peachtree street, designed by starrett & van vleck, of new york, and hentz, reid, & adler, of atlanta---it remained a downtown institution until it was closed in 2003---acquired by a telecom company, the interior disappeared from view and, in spite of assurances that it was still intact, i wasn't sure until today---they've uncovered some of the windows and apparently have started a big new marketing campaign to re-use the building----the picture is a little wierd since it's shot through plate glass, but you get the idea---it looks like it is still in excellent condition