Historic Krispy Kreme site on Ponce de Leon reopens after 2021 arson fire
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Rejoice! The iconic Ponce Krispy Kreme returns on October 10
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A fire at the landmark Krispy Kreme on Ponce de Leon Avenue early in the morning on February 10.
I took my father’s car keys late one night and snuck out. I picked up a friend. We sped toward the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Central Park Place, in downtown Atlanta, where a burgeoning teenage ritual took place: the devouring of half a dozen hot glazed Krispy Kremes in the car as Outkast’s
Aquemini (usually) blasted from our speakers. Back then, in the nineties, Ponce was still a de facto dividing line between money and poverty, white and Black. The Krispy Kreme factory-store straddled that divide, acting as a kind of bridge. Joining the heterogeneous gathering of lotus-eaters under the glow of the Hot Now sign the hippies, the homeless, the bleary-eyed and otherwise beleaguered was necessary for a couple of well-off white kids from the northside driving daddy’s car. We all licked our fingers the same way.
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Krispy Kreme in Ponce De Leon was engulfed in flames (Twitter/@GAFollowers)
Atlanta s historic Krispy Kreme store, bought by retired sports star Shaquille Shaq O Neal, located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, has reportedly caught on fire. Firefighters were called to the store shortly before 1 am and further updates are awaited.
According to WSB-TV, store employees told Channel 2 Action News that everyone in the store got out and no one got hurt. Fire crews remained at the store to put out the flames towards the early hours of Wednesday, February 10, morning.
While the location is not the original Krispy Kreme store as it is often mistaken to be, it is still considered to be a historic landmark in Atlanta. The OG Krispy Kreme was actually started in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, by Vernon Rudolph in 1937 after he collected a top-secret yeast-raised doughnut recipe from a French chef in New Orleans.