Dying Crapshooter's Blues by Blues legend Willie McTell tells the story of the last wish of a gambler called Jesse Williams, who directed that his funeral procession include '29 women outta North Atlanta, to know that Little Jesse didn't pass out so swell.'
Former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young was the first African-American elected to Congress in 1972.
Coca-Cola was invented by Atlantan pharmacist Dr John Pemberton in 1886. It was intended as a medicinal drink, and in its first year lost him $20.