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So the TA in Conley GA is finally closed..I'll be dipped!

I remember when it first opened in the late 70's. It was an independent stop called "Transport City". Awesome stop. Just great. absolutely great.


You know they should have never sold the "Transport City" out to "Trash America". Then we might would still have a "Awesome stop" there in Atlanta. I hope when the Flying J opens up, that it doesn't turn into the same kind of TRASHY place!
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So the TA in Conley GA is finally closed..I'll be dipped!

I remember when it first opened in the late 70's. It was an independent stop called "Transport City". Awesome stop. Just great. absolutely great.

They even had a sauna & steam room for drivers. No charge.

They had a cafeteria with little negro boys in starched white shirts complete with black bowtie and red jacket to carry your tray to the table. That, alas, was short lived as it didn't go over well with truckers, but the tourists liked it. The drivers would rather have a sexy little baby doll in a short skirt to carry their tray and refill their coffee than a little negro boy dressed like a maitre 'd.

The elegance of Transport City was short lived in general. Soon thereafter, the Sauna & Steam room was closed. Too much upkeep & driver abuse. Much too soon it became a white elephant and was sold to TA. It wa downhill from there on.

I was one of the first drivers to ever visit Transport City. It was way ahead of its time.
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The Dalton Pilots are a damn joke, glad to hear the TA is gone. I stopped there once after an extended stay at the Kroger DC. Never again after that. Now if you want some better stops depending on which way you're going out there's a decent pilot near Athens on 20 and a ridiculous awesome pilot in Tifton. I think the Tifton one was a Williams there's parking for 200 in there, a blue beacon on site and they have a steak and shake too.


Yes, the Pilot in Tifton is a great place, one of the cleaner ones as best I remember. And the food from Steak and Shake, that's some more good eating there.
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It's funny because my Grandparents... hell, half my dad's side of the family all lived on Hillcrest, just off Moreland Ave—right down the street from the old TA. I remember walking up to the corner store when I was about six... even going across the road to the Winn-Dixie on Moreland—I don't remember it being all that bad then. Well, of course, except for my redneck family that used to get drunk and have gunfights on Hillcrest... heh!

Fast forward quite a few years later, I stopped at the TA in the early 90's and was shocked at what a sh**hole the area had become.

On the same note, I was there the day the Petro on the west side opened for business. And just a few days ago, I stopped there again, for the first time in years. I was really surprised that it seems to have aged pretty well—not nearly as trashed as I thought it would be. Albeit, they don't give you a ride to the front on a golf cart anymore... I didn't figure that would last very long though.
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