For more than 65 years, a shopping center on Roswell Road near the Big Chicken has served as a retail gateway of sorts in East Cobb.
When it opened in 1958, the sprawling facility was called Town and Country Shopping Center. East Cobb wasn’t even a place name then, but a mostly rural area east of the City of Marietta that was beginning to sprout with suburban development.
The place names denoted that too: East Side Elementary School, Eastvalley Elementary School, Eastside Baptist Church, etc. This was the east side of Marietta, which was the absolute hub of Cobb County…