Atomic Dining Room Size:11" x 14" New Yorker

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000-year-old relic of a wall from the Northern Qi dynasty (550-577)

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A century later

gigantic and awe-inspiring at their time

Atomic Dining Room Size:11" x 14" New YorkerIf 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