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There's a corner of Cobb County, Georgia outside of Atlanta where you see one kind of

business over and over again.

This is a tire shop.

This is another tire shop.

Tire shops.

So many of them.

More tire shops to your right.

Tire shop next to it.

I'm driving around with Lee Roy Hutchins, everyone calls him Trey.

He's lived here in Mabelton, Georgia most of his life.

Three tire shops just pass here on your left hand side right next to each other really.

Mabelton is 15 miles outside of shiny bustling Atlanta.

But you want to know it if you just got plopped down here.

Because Mabelton has a left behind feeling to it.

Tall grass along the road sides, aging strip malls, partly vacant with some dollar stores

and pawn shops, and all those tire shops.

We drove around for like an hour and really do see so many.

More than 20.

So is this like a destination for tire shops?

It feels like that.

But then drive a little bit further.

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