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2.37sUmbriel, these are some Yankees.
4.27sSo, Fry Atlanta was an American city in your time?
1.67sI think it was just an airport.
2.25sThey had a place where you could buy nuts.
3.72sNo! Ancient Atlanta was more than just a Delta hub.
4.4sIt was a vibrant metropolis-- the equal of Paris or New York.
2.17sThat's right, honey. Whatever you say.
2.05sLook at these fabulous ruins--
6.31sTurner Field, the Coca-Cola bottling plant the, uh... the airport.
5.4sBut, tell us, how could a city with such a... fabulous airport end up underwater?
7.27sAh, now, that's a story that can only rightly be told in a chamber of commerce video narrated by folk-rock troubadour, Donovan.
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7.59sAtlanta was a city, landlocked hundreds of miles from the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
14.2sYet, so desperate the city's desire for tourism that they moved offshore, becoming an island and an even bigger Delta hub, until the city overdeveloped and it started to sink.