With the truck, he said, “I could go move around, make $200, $300 in a day, and then go lay down at home.”<br />In 2010, the Atlanta Housing Authority demolished Herndon Homes.<br />He took the truck through Herndon Homes, before they were knocked down,<br />and rolled daily among the new apartments — clean, brick, rectilinear, blandly handsome — where Techwood Homes used to be.<br />“When times change,” he said, “you’ve got to change with the times.”<br />He grew up in Herndon Homes, another public housing complex nearby, in a neighborhood that had gone from white to black by midcentury.<br />ATLANTA — It is 3 in the afternoon, and Anthony Palmer, 62, is behind the wheel of the beat-up, retrofitted<br />and rebranded bread truck that is Anthony’s Rolling Store.<br />In 2006, Mr. Palmer took the money the city had paid him for the game room and paid $5,000 for the old bread truck.<br />“Kids,” a woman cries, “the rolling store’s here!”<br />The little ones come out in their school uniforms, twirling braids, choosing carefully from the bags of salty junk<br />on display, hands reaching up to put their money up on the ledge of the little window by the back wheels.
