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Yo! Did You Know?! ® is a travelogue web series that follows, me, 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. 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
Lenox and Parker Magazine’s June Issue, features Series Creator, Jen Farris as their AList section for Juneteenth. They take a deep dive into YO! DID YOU KNOW?! to discuss its origins, how the series relates to film and television locations, as well as details of Season One’s upcoming 11 episodes that fun May 26 – June 30. Season One features ATLANTA locations.
YO! ATER THE SHOW is an extended content segment allowing viewers additional facts about the featured web series’ episode. This PETERS STREET segment follows the S1 EP1 “Welcome to Hotel Row” episode and Jen Farris takes viewers down to PETERS STREET along a former Atlanta Terminal railroad junction adjacent to the Castleberry Community in SW ATL.
On PART ONE of the 5th episode of YO! Did You Know?! ® We start at the beginning of his life, as an enslaved man in Georgia and follow his steps as he lands in The City of Atlanta as a free man post Civil War before he attains wealth and his mansion on Diamond Hill is erected.
On this 1st episode of YO! Did You Know?! ®, we share, Atlanta's rich and historic railroad history. One historically preserved section of buildings along this junction, Hotel Row, has filmmakers who absolutely love telling stories inside of it.
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.
This YO! Did You Know?! ® episode virtually strolls down memory lane of the beloved Greenbriar Mall built in 1965. We visit the original design by a famous architect duo and go back in time to the 1920s-early 1960s to discover the parcel was used by a couple of Atlanta's most prominent movers and shakers.
This building was one of the most significant locations in American history as the location to the first Black-owned radio station in the United States. By the way, Dr. MLK Jr, Madame CJ Walker, and the SCLC were there, too.
We visit one of Atlanta’s best treasures. Seventeen stories of Amicolola Marble describes this location as Atlanta's (once) tallest skyscraper in the early 20th Century. It belonged to one of Atlanta’s leaders and corporate soda pop Kings and currently stands in the spotlight in the filming industry. And lucky for you. You can enjoy this location as a GUEST in the luxury hotel industry.
YO! Did You Know?! ® circles back to Post Civil War where an amazing group of ministers passionately paved the way for formerly enslaved Atlantans to be educated on a college level.
On this episode of YO! Did You Know?! ® learn about Atlanta’s oldest black church; legally founded by enslaved Africans before the Civil War ended.
YO! Did You Know?! ® reveals this location, modeled after European architecture, arrived right on time at the turn of the 20th Century and was just what the community needed during a very tense time in Atlanta metro's racial past.
Learn how this female entrepreneur graduate from Spelman College flipped $30 into a $1Million business empire and fed the Sweet Auburn community her entire journey.
YO! Did You Know?! ® explores one of Atlanta's oldest neighborhoods, once home to wealthy Queen Anne and Victorian homes owners before the interstate was paved. Now, in recent years, because it identifies as home to railway mechanics, it was the perfect match as a fictional "Detroit, MI" neighborhood on TV.
YO! Did You Know?! ® travelogue web series is centered around historic preservation. As a seasoned Film and TV location scout for 16 years, film-friendly communities have morphed dramatically. YO! was birthed as a platform to reveal history ‘hidden in plain sight’, draw attention to the, often missed, structures and artistry of architecture, and educate viewers about the change makers who made the communities special.
engage with Yo! Did You Know?! features and stay in the know for cool, fun, historical tidbits found inside the world of locations. 
