Williams Tavern
In 1944, Helen and ´Nish´ Williams opened Williams Tavern on Hunter Street. The restaurants "Blue Dining Room" featured the house specialty, southern fried chicken. Nish Williams was an accomplished baseball player who played for Morehouse College and the Atlanta Black Crackers. In late in the late 1960s, their son Donn Clendon, a nationally-famous baseball player, replace the tavern with a night club that became a very popular.
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.