CLICK HERE FOR ME TELLING THIS STORY BEFORE. But yeah, it was officially announced over the weekend that AWA was, indeed, moving out of the Galleria and down to Atlanta proper next year (and also, apparently, moving to a December[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: YES, I ACTUALLY DID IT AGAIN. I don’t wanna say too much here, because Past Me tries REALLY HARD to justify this awful, awful decision in the coming few pages. All I’ll do now is direct anybody who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I’m somewhat surprised that I never tried to do a Dark Side of the Moon reference with the pyramid up top of the Galleria. Past Me was NOT on the ball this that one. Then again, Past Me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a common thing in convention centers: they have to crank the AC up really high to keep the crowded areas comfortable, but it results in any low-traffic areas becoming ice boxes. It was weirdly strong at this con,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Context: The Cobb Galleria was designed as a “specialty mall”, where half the building is mall space, and there’s an entrance to the convention center where the anchor store would be. Because the con more or less takes over the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m just waiting for someone to dig up an ’90-era map of the Galleria and point out that the old CyberStation arcade was actually in the space NEXT to the convention arcade, and that I was excited about the wrong[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…