Atomic Dining Room gifts-50-100 two world wars and the

two world wars and the new media of its time

The glowing message didn't refer to impending disaster in the hardscrabble neighborhood

but it was renamed on the day of the launch before a crowd of 250

It became best known for the island footprint it was built on called the Flatiron Block

The photo appeared on the front page of The Times and other newspapers around the world on February 26

Atomic Dining Room gifts-50-100 two world wars and theIf you were driving in Augusta, Ga. in 1952, it would be hard to miss this head turning sign for the Atomic Dining Room and Drive in. The eatery sprang up during the Atomic Age, served workers at a nearby government energy complex and offered "popular prices," not to mention strange and quintessential 1950s signage "In this pleasant land where the greatest tension ever felt by most people in the past was the pull of a fish on a baited line all the