The City of Atlanta's downtown streets and parks are benefiting from the flood of tourists and officials this summer. Distinctive exterior site lighting luminaires and decorative poles will illuminate the entire city during the Centennial Games. The decorative poles consist of tapered and fluted steel shafts with a 2-piece clamshell styled cast iron decorative base cover. Designed by a collaboration between Nimrod Long & Associates, Jack Patric & Associates, and Ramon A. Noya, P.E. and supplied by TrimbleHouse, the traditional "acorn" and "tear-drop" styled luminaires will grace the pathways of: Centennial Park, Woodruff Park, historic Auburn Avenue, Capitol Avenue (the main throroughfare leading up to Olympic Stadium) and the Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Venue in Gainesville.

Photos courtesy of TrimbleHouse.

Nationwide enthusiasm for this summer's Games has been building for months, ever since the Olympic Torch left Southern California. An overwhelming mood of excellence and pride continues to blaze its way across the country towards the newly renovated streetscapes of Atlanta. Shown is LASN's own Kimberley Layne, proudly bearing the torch of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, CA.

At the hub of Olympic activity stretches International Boulevard through the new Centennial Olympic Park. North Park, permanently landscaped by Valley Crest Tree Co., includes the ampitheater and Olympic Ring Fountain; while South Park, temporarily landscaped by Ruppert Landscape Co., embodies the "Olympic Festival," a bustling jamboree of temporary pavilions (including AT&T's Global Village, Bud World, and attractions from General Motors and Swatch (the "official time" of the Games). Outdoor displays, concessions, merchandising and the Great Lawn characterize the "Festival," most of which will be dismantled after the Games and carried off to the Australian Olympics in 2000. Planting materials (lagerstroemia indica, magnolia grandiflora greenback, ilex crenta compacta, geranium, and lobelia ) will convey the official "look of the games" here at the festival as well.

Ramon Noya, Ramon Lumenenance Design designed lighting on Int. Blvd...???

Road to Conyers, George International Horse Park...

Canoeing and Kayaking Slalom Competitions (Tennessee)

Not all of the Olympic venues are within the state lines of Georgia. Whitewater enthusiasts will be able to enjoy the canoeing and kayaking slalom competitions on Tennessee's Ocoee River. Concrete walkways and bridges have been installed to cross a small stream on the highway side of the Olympic course. In addition, a 300-foot cable stayed pedestrian bridge at the upper end of the course bearing the "Centennial Olympics 1996" headline and United States Forest Service insignias will serve as yet another lasting legacy for the competitions.

Photos courtesy of Steadfast Bridges.