Atlanta circa 1990
Decatur Metro | February 4, 2011Hey transplants and cool cats under 21. Ever wonder if Atlanta was as groovy in 1990 as it is today?
Was this taken at lunchtime? Woodruff Park looks slammed with people!
h/t: PecanneLog
Hey transplants and cool cats under 21. Ever wonder if Atlanta was as groovy in 1990 as it is today?
Was this taken at lunchtime? Woodruff Park looks slammed with people!
h/t: PecanneLog
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that was good. I wonder if anyone has one from 81? itd be fun to see atlanta when i was a kid since i cant remember it!
The MARTA buses are naked
I love all the hoopties.
Holy cow, so this is what it feels like to get old. That was only 21 years ago but it looks like the 1960s.
This has to be in 91 or 92. The Bank America Plaza building (600 Peachtree St) was built in 14 months between 91 and 92, and in this video it’s nearly topped out.
I can’t easily find details of exactly when the building was under construction; that would narrow it down.
Woodruff Park is jammed because there was a Barker’s hotdog wagon right there…that was a great dog…!
Yes!
Barker’s WAS the best! I can still conjure up that smokey smell luring me from a block away…
Remind me to tell you what “hat tip” means!
- Fewer students
– Fewer panhandlers
– More men with ties
– Mailboxes on the corner still exist
– The junker cars are from the 70s
– No Hummers
Reminds me of this video from 1974 on Atlanta ‘sound pollution’. http://bit.ly/fqP8gr
I moved back to Atlanta in 1990 having left at the age of 4 for Dallas. I had just sold my 84 Cutlass for a VW Jetta because I thought the Cutlass was old. ( The parents had bought it for me) Funny to see all the 80’s American cars.
How did 21 years go by so fast? I remember Decatur before the Olympics. Totally different. Anyone have pics from then?
I miss those open lots around 10th and peachtree seen at the end of the video.
Maybe it’s just that I’m getting old and 1990 seems like a couple of weeks ago, or maybe it’s just that I’m not very observant, but I gotta say, it doesn’t look all that different to me. Maybe it’s because it’s mostly downtown and that hasn’t changed as much? The difference in Decatur would be much more dramatic.
Ha, the drive went far enough into midtown to pass by Backstreets (@4:50) and what I think might be the Stein Club at (@5:04 although you can’t really see it well). Irreplaceable “institutions”, those.
god i miss backstreet
My husband (of more than 20 years) and I met at the Stein Club…! We would walk up to Cha Gio for spring rolls and take them back to the bar for dinner! Barflys? Maybe. But romantic barflys!
I was trying to remember the name of the Stein Club just the other day.
Against my family’s wishes, I traveled from Louisburg, NC to spend the Summer of 1990 in Atlanta. On the night I arrived I went to Backstreet where I found a place to live and a job at the downtown Macy’s in about two hours. It was one of the best summers of my life.
My favorite downtown memory’s of the celebration of the Brave’s Miracle ’91 season with a weekday parade! The streets were full of cheering downtown workers, and folks were throwing confetti from the windows– everyone bursting with pride & love for our wonderful, wonderful team!
Those were GREAT times, Deanne. There really will never be another year/experience like that in Atlanta.
I don’t know about the video, but the soundtrack certainly made me mellow.
A lot humbler skyline back then. I was watching thinking, “You know, people didn’t look all THAT different 20 years ago.” Then the guy in stark white jeans, purple sweater, and a mullet walked through the frame.
RIP Pasta Da Pulcinella location at 10th and Peachtree.