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Atlanta Magazine Illustration by Max-o-matic If you want a definitive history of Atlanta magazine’s early years, you’ll have to read Robert Coram’s epic 14,000-word story that took up the entire feature well of our 35th anniversary issue in 1996. (We recently posted it online, though if you can find a hard copy, you’ll notice that it’s followed by a story on Anne Quatrano and Clifford Harrison’s Cartersville farmhouse written by yours truly.) Owned by the Chamber of Commerce until 1977, Atlanta was at the forefront of a wave of city magazines that swept the country in the 1960s. Its founding editors were an audacious bunch. Editor-in-Chief Jim Townsend, from Lanett, Alabama, went on to launch at least 30 city magazines, causing ....