Underground Retrospective

With the recent news about visions for a revamped Underground Atlanta under new owners WRS, today's Curbed recounted a brief history of the Downtown Atlanta landmark, from a railroad hub post-Reconstruction to a nightlife destination when the city had pretty liberal drinking ordinances in the '70s. We're just wondering if anyone else remembers the Josephine Tussaud's Undergrond Wax Museum that used to be there? We'd love to see that make a comeback. In fact, whatever happened to all those wax statues? We particularly loved the Frankenstein's Monster one.

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