Beneath the 2015 incarnation of this bohemian neighborhood lies a storied past. What is now Flat Shoals Avenue—home to craft-beer bars, intimate music venues, and inventive restaurants—used to be the Sandtown Trail, a Creek Indian trading route. And where now Craftsman bungalows dot the residential streets, cannons and rifles once roared among the old-growth oaks during the Battle of Atlanta. Situated three miles east of downtown, East Atlanta melds the historic and the contemporary with a dose of independent-minded swagger, appealing equally to the weekend party crowd, 30-something professionals, families with kids, and long-time residents who still tend their gardens and water their lawns, watching the ebbs and flows of the diverse and dynamic neighborhood they all call home.
Specializing in custom framing, canvas-stretching, and unusual objects, Vintage ATL makes your artwork look better, plain and simple. Doubling as a gallery, Vintage also carries of-the-moment prints and designs from acclaimed Atlanta studios like Methane along with beautifully curated vintage goods that include cameras, fondue sets, home goods, furniture, and lighting, all varying in era and style from kitsch to mid-century-modern to 70s glam. And the store’s AC Boxhole Gallery features a rotating monthly artist in, you guessed it, a 25” x 19” x 10” space leftover from an a/c unit.
