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27-429: The name is a reference to Five Points , which is the center of downtown Atlanta. "Little" Five Points refers to the intersection at the center of the neighborhood. Two points are provided by Moreland Avenue ( U.S. 23 and Georgia 42 ), which runs perfectly north/south, and forms the county line dividing Fulton and DeKalb . Two points are provided by Euclid Avenue, which runs northeast/southwest. The fifth point

54-463: A float during a parade and sings several karaoke numbers to the crowd. In the 2011 film Rio the main antagonists use the Rio Carnival as a decoy to smuggle the main character and his bird friends to an abandoned airport so they can be sold on the black market. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade features in several films including Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and its remakes as well as

81-555: A float weighing more than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg). It broke the previous record for the longest single-chassis parade float, which was set in 2010 by the same sponsor. The dogs trained for three months prior to the float's debut at the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 2, 2012. A specially designed “wave” machine was incorporated into the design of the float which created a wave every minute. Wes hupp drove that float. Members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club first staged

108-746: A popular tradition. The small country holds some 30 parades, large and small. The world's largest flower parade is held every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month in Zundert , a small town in the south of the Netherlands. In Zundert, and most other Dutch parades, floats are built entirely by volunteers, where hamlets compete with each other to build the most beautiful float, judged by an independent jury. Most Dutch flower parades are held in August and September and use mainly dahlia flowers. The dahlia fields are kept by volunteers as well. The climax of

135-603: A small-town " main street " style (with underground parking ), and the entire development is done in brick , as Little Five Points originally was. Little Five Points is renowned for its alternative culture. It is home to metro - wide indie radio station WRFG FM 89.3 as well as many businesses. The neighborhood is featured in the Cartoon Network show Class of 3000 as well as the Internet Girls series of books by Lauren Myracle , who mentions several of

162-965: Is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades , such as those of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro , the Carnival in São Paulo , the Carnival of Viareggio , the Maltese Carnival , the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade , Mardi Gras in New Orleans , the Gasparilla Pirate Festival , the 500 Festival Parade , the United States Presidential Inaugural Parade, and

189-412: Is a district of Atlanta, Georgia , United States , the primary reference for the downtown area. The name refers to the convergence of Marietta Street, Edgewood Avenue, Decatur Street, and two legs of Peachtree Street (the south-southwestern leg was originally Whitehall Street, before a section of Whitehall was renamed as an extension of Peachtree Street to give businesses south of Five Points

216-553: Is also the host of weekly musical meditation open house every Friday evening at the Govinda’s vegan cafe. [1] Little Five Points is one of Atlanta's best neighborhoods for viewing street art. Unlike most of Atlanta's neighborhoods, the street art in Little Five Points is highly concentrated in a compact easily walked area. Works by internationally known street artists can be found as well as works by local artists. Finding

243-589: The Tournament of Roses Parade . For the latter event, floats are decorated entirely in flowers or other plant material. Parade floats were first introduced in the Middle Ages . Churches used pageant wagons as movable scenery for passion plays, and craftsmen with artisan guilds built pageant wagons for their specified craft. The wagons were pulled throughout the town, most notably during Corpus Christi in which up to 48 wagons were used, one for each play in

270-670: The Corpus Christi cycle. They are so named because the first floats were decorated barges on the River Thames for the Lord Mayor's Show . The largest float ever exhibited in a parade was a 116-foot-long (35 m) entry in the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade that featured Tillman the skateboarding bulldog (and some of his friends) surfing in an 80-foot-long (24 m) ocean of water. The water tank held over 6,600 US gallons (25,000 L; 5,500 imp gal) on

297-512: The National Park Service, as the population grew on Atlanta's east side, the area where the trolley lines converged became one of the earliest major regional shopping centers. Little Five Points thrived until the 1960s, when a proposed freeway through the heart of the district drove residents out of the neighborhood. By the 1970s, Little Five Points had fallen into disrepair . A revitalization began as urban pioneers moved into

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324-545: The Tournament of Roses Parade in 1890. Many of the members of the Valley Hunt Club were former residents of the American East and Midwest . They wished to showcase their new California homes' mild winter weather. At a club meeting, Professor Charles F. Holder announced, "In New York, people are buried in the snow. Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let's hold a festival to tell

351-530: The United States produced entirely by women, all of whom are volunteers. The parade is the oldest event and largest parade of Fiesta San Antonio . The original purpose of the parade was to honor the heroes of the Alamo. In keeping with this tradition, participants are asked to place a flower tribute on the lawn of the Alamo as they pass by. In the Netherlands, flower parades (called ' Bloemencorso ') are

378-556: The bottom of the sign gives the current time and temperature. At the other corners of Five Points are located: Woodruff Park (northeast); the William-Oliver Building (northwest); Georgia State University 's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (southwest); and a parking garage (southeast). On a triangular island in the intersection stands the George Beasley sculpture Five Points Monument , alluding to

405-563: The businesses in Little Five Points by name. Little Five points is home to the Little Five Points Halloween Festival , which takes place every year on the Saturday of Halloween . The official L5P Poet used to freestyle poetry in the square and has a mural located in the alleyway between Earthtones and Filthy Wealth; he has not been present in 2014. Local vendors sell arts and crafts and the highlight of

432-530: The celebration is the Little Five Points Halloween Parade. The parade features local celebrities, bikers in costume, live music, hearses , several local marching bands , and many parade floats that are put together by community action groups and local businesses. Little Five is also the host of Little Five Fest , which is an annual music festival featuring 50-100 local bands spread across multiple venues. Little Five Points

459-497: The development of shopping malls, the economic and demographic center of Atlanta shifted northward, and Five Points went into decay. By the 21st century, the area was revitalizing, mostly due to the expansion of Georgia State University , which maintains a large footprint in Five Points. 33°45′16″N 84°23′23″W  /  33.75432°N 84.38979°W  / 33.75432; -84.38979 Parade float A float

486-506: The intersection, between Peachtree Street and Edgewood Avenue. The Five Points MARTA station is one block south of the intersection on Peachtree Street. A large round Coca-Cola sign overlooks Five Points, atop the Olympia Building on the east side of the intersection between Edgewood Avenue and Decatur Avenue. The nearly 50-foot tall sign has a 33-foot lighted neon face and faces up and down Peachtree Street. A lighted portion at

513-415: The location of Atlanta's first mayoral election. Moses Formwalt became Atlanta's first mayor, defeating Jonathan Norcross . In 1875, Atlanta's drinking water system began with the construction of three artesian wells at Five Points. The system delivered water to Atlanta's residents via wooden pipes. Until the 1960s, Five Points represented the central hub of Atlanta. With the advent of urban sprawl and

540-414: The movie Animal House (1978) features the protagonists from the title fraternity surreptitiously launching their own float into a parade featuring legitimate entries from many of their rivals. The float, a giant decorated cake adorned with the words "Eat Me," later splits open to reveal the parade-destroying "Deathmobile" inside. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) the titular character jumps onto

567-517: The murals can be a bit of a treasure hunt. Many works of street art are tucked away on the back sides of buildings, in alleyways, and in back parking lots. Both the easily visible and hidden gems of street art in Little Five Points are mapped on the Atlanta Street Art Map . 33°45′56″N 84°20′57″W  /  33.765511°N 84.349122°W  / 33.765511; -84.349122 Five Points (Atlanta) Five Points

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594-414: The prestige of a Peachtree Street address). Five Points is usually considered by Atlantans to be the center of town, and it is the origin of the street addressing system for the city and county, although four of the streets (except Edgewood) are rotated at least 30° clockwise from their nominal directions, along with the rest of the downtown street grid . Woodruff Park is on the northeast corner of

621-577: The south on Moreland, just through the DeKalb Avenue and Georgia Railroad underpass , is the Edgewood Retail District, a late-2000s urban infill land development of former Atlanta Gas Light Company land. This provides the area its big-box stores , mostly at the opposite end of the spectrum from the historic Little Five Points. Its smaller shops constructed along Caroline Street, occupied by many chain stores , are done in

648-683: The then-cheap neighborhood and restored the Victorian-style homes. By 1981, local merchants formed the Little Five Points Partnership to continue the restoration and expansion of the retail area, turning what was formerly a gas station into the "484 retail area" — several retail shops aligned in strip-mall style. Little Five Points is surrounded by the Inman Park , Edgewood , Candler Park and Poncey-Highland neighborhoods of Atlanta . Immediately to

675-589: The water tower formerly standing on the spot as well as the streetcar tracks that once existed in the intersection. Prior to the arrival of white settlers , Five Points was the intersection of two Creek Indian trails, the Peachtree Trail and the Sandtown Trail. In 1845, George Washington Collier opened a grocery store at what is now Five Points, and the store later served as Atlanta's first post office in 1846. In 1848, Five Points served as

702-583: The world about our paradise." And so the Club organized horse-drawn carriages covered in flowers, followed by foot races, polo matches, and a game of tug-of-war on the town lot. They attracted a crowd of 2000 to the event. Upon seeing the scores of flowers on display, the Professor decided to suggest the name "Tournament of Roses." The Battle of Flowers parade is in San Antonio, Texas is the only parade in

729-472: Was originally Seminole Avenue, which met the intersection from the northwest, but the Seminole point was converted to a plaza and there is no longer a five-point intersection, though some regard McLendon Avenue, extending east from Euclid's southern intersection at Moreland, as the new fifth point. The first Atlanta streetcars were constructed just south of the Little Five Points in the 1890s. According to

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