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Yo! Did You Know?! ® is a travelogue web series that follows Jen Farris, a seasoned Film and TV location scout, into film-friendly communities to reveal history ‘hidden in plain sight’, the artistry of architecture and oftentimes the change makers who made those communities special. Historic Preservation is the key. YO! Season One Episodes 1 – 11 and recurring extended content segments are below. Let’s virtually explore together!
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Hi! I’m Jen, a Georgia Peach from Atlanta USA. For thirty years, I have worked in the entertainment industry, and in that time, for more than a decade, I have worked as a professional film and television location scout. I love exploration and have seen the coolest perspectives of locations from an eagle’s eye-view to under the ground. I’m excited to finally tell the stories of many places I have traveled. Hailing from a lineage of storytellers, writers and historians, it is no surprise that I believe storytelling to be something held in high regard. Building the foundation of stories through location scouting has been invigorating.
I fell in love with architecture as a teenager, and was so good, my drafting teacher carved my name out of wood as a desk name plate for my future job at an architectural firm. Who knew that after all these years in entertainment, I would find myself back inside of a world of architecture.
IG: @msjenfarris
YO! Did You Know?!® travelogue web series and YO! After The Show!® extended content segments link to historic preservation and film and television locations. Both follow Jen Farris, a seasoned Film and TV location scout, into film-friendly communities to reveal history ‘hidden in plain sight’, the artistry of architecture and oftentimes the change makers who made the communities special. Click to hear her explain the connection.
On this 1st episode of YO! Did You Know?!®, we …
YO! Did You Know?!® takes you into one of Atlanta’s oldest and most historically significant communities with almost 200 years of architectural greatness. Learn why a well-known legend, Aretha Franklin, was portrayed here inside of this perfect location.
On the next episode of YO! Did You Know?!®, we …
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YO! Did You Know?!® Episode 6 visits one of Atlanta’s best treasures built in 1906, with Seventeen stories of Amicolola Marble. Once known as Coca Cola’s Headquarter location, it was Atlanta’s tallest skyscraper and belonged to an Atlanta leader and corporate soda king. It currently stands in the spotlight with the filming industry, and lucky for you, this highly decorated historic landmark, now a luxury hotel that was awarded with a prestigious MICHELIN Key.
YO! Did You Know?!® Ep 7 dives into some amazing …
Our YO! Did You Know?!® Juneteenth episode, we roll the dial back more than a century before the production cameras rolled on the film location. It sat on a portion of a 450-acre land tract acquired by a group of northern missionary church men and was the largest land purchase in Atlanta at that time and a University was built there. It was ONE of more than 500 of their schools and colleges designed for freedmen in the South after the Civil War ended. Missionary men who believed in the abolition of slavery and the education of African Americans. We take you down I-85 to a place you pass everyday, and even with the clues that remain, you do not realize you are driving through a moment in time, where excellence and high education were supreme.
Odd Fellows Building YO! Did You Know?! ® EP 09: …
In 1929 a Spelman HBCU Graduate took $300, invested into …
Historically vintage Atlanta communities have enough character to tell years’ …
YO! After the Show: What to Expect
YO! After the Show: JACK THE RAPPER
Joseph “Jack the Rapper” Gibson Jr was WERD’s 1st DJ. WERD also made history as the 1st black owned and operated radio station in the United States. It was based inside of the Prince Hall Masons Building on Auburn Ave beginning in 1949.YO! Creator, Jen Farris, sits down with Colombia Records Veteran, Luther Clark on YO! After the Show who shares stories of his days while hanging out at the legendary Jack the Rapper conventions as well as bonding on a personal level. “Jack the Rapper” Gibson.
YO! After the Show: Clark University (Brownsville) When Clark University was founded in Brownsville (South Atlanta), and moved to the West End in the 1940s, it left behind clues that you drive past and MISS. For Starters, the UNIVERSITY AVE exit ramp is dedicated to the former HBCU that sat on 450 acres of land just below the ramp. Jen Farris drives thru South Atlanta to explore more clues to its former existance that you drive past and miss.
THREE PART EPISODE Episodes 1 – 3
1. Henry and Annie Merner Pfieffer
2. Wilbur Thirkield
3. Elijah Gammon
YO! AFTER THE SHOW: Hotel Row’s Concordia Hall. [extended from YO! EP: 1 Episode 1 “Welcome to Hotel Row”]. The “upside-down alligator mural building” on downtown Atlanta’s Mitchell Street has a formal name. It was once Concordia Hall. Ever really LOOKED at it? It is covered in ornate features and symbols, and this former HOTEL ROW building is more than an upside-down-alligator mural building. It is the original structure (minus features) and was once Atlanta’s first German/Jewish social club. Enjoy learning its backstory on this south downtown block!
YO! AFTER THE SHOW:
Herman Jerome “HJ“ Russell, Sr.
Atlanta can celebrate the FIFA World Cup inside of the Mercedes Benz Stadium because his company, HJ Russell & Co. served as the Benz’s core general contractor and built many of Atlanta’s most iconic structures, from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, 191 Peachtree Tower, Georgia-Pacific Tower, the Coca-Cola Headquarters, and just footsteps of historic Hotel Row, Phillips / State Farm Arena, and, of course, the Mercedes Benz Stadium.
[extended from YO! Episode 1 “Welcome to Hotel Row” for the backstory on this south downtown block!
YO! AFTER THE SHOW: Peters Street
Jen Farris takes viewers down to PETERS STREET along a former Atlanta Terminal railroad junction adjacent to the Castleberry Community in SW ATL.
[extended from YO! Episode 1 “Welcome to Hotel Row” for the backstory on this south downtown block!
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