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This ATL-based co sells everything from high-end, professional quality setups with a variety of options (hardwood or brushed aluminum bases, lit rails, card shufflers...) to ready-made models. For Father's Day, they'll make an 8-footer with customized cloth with your pop's name and color choice plus folding metal legs, cupholders, and padded rails, also featured in popular video game Tony Hawk Pro Skater: Chad's Over-Protective Mother Edition.
Shipped from Knoxville to shutterbug dads and accompanied by strap-equipped leather cases, these boxy metal old-school rigs were made in the 1940s, use 620 or 120 film, have frosted glass viewfinders, and capture vintage-style images of whatever Dad wants to shoot, which was originally you back when you broke his Polaroid.
Get your on-the-go padre this zippered travel golf putting case from an Atlanta-rooted artist, which features a comfort-grip, silvertone shaft putter (breaks down into four pieces for easy carrying anywhere), whose head can be engraved with dad's name/monogram. Also included's a golf ball along with a metal practice cup "perfect for when there's no green available", which can also be said about the fancy oregano in the back of High Times.
These impeccably polished, refillable ball points are hand-made by a resident of Ellenwood, and're constructed with materials like silver/ivory-hued deer antlers (w/ gold trim & tip), plus various shellac-coated, earth-toned metals with beehive-esque designs accomplished by rolling them on corn cobs/attaching Amy Winehouse's head.
Bring your father to The Counter, buy yourself a burger, tell him to say "I want the BFD!", and he'll get a gratis 100% Angus burger w/ cheese (soft-ripened Brie, jalapeno Jack, Tillamook cheddar...), sauce (ginger soy glaze, basil pesto...), and up to four toppings like roasted red chilies, spicy pepperoncini, and red onion, a satirical newspaper in which all the stories are about Khrushchev, though there's still no need to read past the headline.
