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Different but the same, if you know what I mean. Even Fourth Ward Buddie and Inman Park Buddie are different from Druid Hills Buddie. Who he was in Los Angeles was different from who he was in Hartwell, and different from who he was in Atlanta. He lived a distinct lifestyle that began and ended with each location. Within those cycles he has other definitive markers to break his story up, usually based on location. Nice play on words, eh? Side note: posting this photo sent me off on a 20 minute cursory search of vintage bicycle head badges to try to identify the brand and model of his bike. In this scene a grizzled old cowboy informs his inexperienced sidekick that the secret to life is finding one thing and sticking with it.

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There’s a scene in the 1991 movie “City Slickers” that pops into my head from time to time while researching Buddie’s life.

He’d fixate on that special something and make it his whole world until he was over it. If something caught his fancy, he ceded control and let the obsession take over. I say he was pursued rather than the other way around because he seems like someone who wasn’t always in control of where his interests took him. Just to give a glimpse into the madness that is reconstructing a dead man’s life and crafting a personal narrative from his perspective.Īsa Candler, Jr.-can I call him Buddie? It’ll be easier if I call him Buddie-was a man pursued by passion. I thought I would talk a little bit about my research. Get you a photo that makes you as happy as this one makes me. Photographic records of the Widow are virtually nonexistent, so even just this snippet is a rare find.

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This is a photo of Buddie with his driver seated at the wheel of the Merry Widow herself. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty dang impressive anyway.

I’ll leave you with a photo that I ran through Algorithmia’s photo colorization tool. So you can imagine how excited I was when I realized I recognized his face in so many shots. Photos of this fellow are hard to come by, and the ones I have are mostly grainy scans of newsprint. post to include a few high quality shots from the 1909 archive. I’ve also updated the From Famine to Feast: Photos of Asa Candler, Jr. And I’m currently working on a new post that will cover the event as a whole, as well as the drama that followed, using the archival photos to create a timeline. I’ve updated that entry with several high quality shots of the burning wreckage. I’ve recently come across the motherlode of photos from the 1909 Atlanta Speedway races, which I wrote about in my Death of the Merry Widow post.