i see so many incredible historical photos on facebook randomly. no one wants to use facebook so i’ma re-steal these and post’em here
here’s two to start
“Atlanta in the 1970s”
“1980 AJC photo of Avondale Estates near Decatur GA”
“Atlanta in the 1970s”
“1980 AJC photo of Avondale Estates near Decatur GA”
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Log Flume at Six Flags Over Georgia, undated. This was likely taken around or during the period my dad worked there and played banjo in one of the park bands (1970s)
“Downtown/Midtown | Photo by Dr William A Wood, Jr., 1972.”
“There’s a lot to study in this circa 1950 photo showing Peachtree St. looking north, probably from the top of the W. W. Orr building at the NW corner of Peachtree and Pine Streets.”
“The streets of the Little Five Points shopping district, August 1977.”
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Love this! I love the subreddits that post old photos as well.
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You have sounded the Mikey Klaxon
Jones Beach State Park, 1945. (The beach closest to where I live, a few miles away)
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Scottish Antartica Expedition, 1904
Cigarette mascot brightening the day of folks in a hospital, 1948
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Does anyone watch any of those YouTubes of restored, enhanced footage of places from 120+ years ago?
I can lose an afternoon to that stuff.
But I love the aerial photos too.
Sometimes at work I fire up Google earth and look at the old satellite imagery from decades past of familiar places and play spot the difference.
I want to make a GTA-like but instead of the typical GTA it’s just the city I live in or the town I grew up in accurately recreated in three or four different time periods that you switch between as you play the story.
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The Hot Corner, historically black business area. Corner of Hull St. and Washington St., Athens, GA, 1914
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My sign about DDT being “harmless to humans” has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my sign
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Unfortunately I’m 99% sure this one is AI. The smoke on the cigarette is coming from the wrong end.
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“1963”
Vintage postcard that looks like it was produced just before the interstate highway divided downtown.
Date: Sometime after 1958, which was when the Georgia Capitol’s dome was plated with gold donated by the citizens of Lumpkin County, site of the nation’s first gold rush in 1836. Incidentally, the the donated gold was brought to Atlanta from Dahlonega by way of 7 mule-drawn covered wagons. The trip (roughly 80 miles or so) took three days.
Comparison photo for above, Feb. 10, 2007
nice archive for historical photos:
http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/
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finding a lot of excellent pre-Great Depression photos on Wikimedia Commons. as in my prior posts, description texts appear under their correlated photos
Atlanta in 1847
Slave Market-Atlanta Georgia 1864
Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, under construction March 10, 1902
Terminal Station, Atlanta, 1907
Equitable Building, 1907
Mitchell Street Viaduct, Atlanta, 1907
Atlanta Equal Suffrage group in parade in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913
Interior of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Atlanta, 1914
Broad Street viaduct, Atlanta, 1916
Atlanta in 1923
WSB, Atlanta Biltmore, 1925
Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, 1926
Equitable Building, Atlanta, 1926
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