Little 5 Points circa 1990
Decatur Metro | July 2, 2011 | 1:01 pmAlways wondered what L5P looked and felt like back in its 1990s hey-day, but haven’t been able to get your hands on any plutonium for the Delorian? Well, Youtube is the next best thing!
h/t: Pecanne Log
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1990 was apparently still part of the 80’s. See you tonight L5P.
What a trip! (Whoops, is that a double entendre?) Atlanta’s own Haight/Ashbury in action. Felt like I stepped into a time machine.
Excuse me, I have to go find that old tie-dyed shirt… I think I still have it!
Bob-tool, tool Bob?
I loved The Point in college (1987-1991). It was a great music venue. I saw a couple of national acts play “secret” gigs there . There was a great jerk chicken place around the corner. Of course Euclid Ave Yacht Club is still there. Women used to give a Mardi Gras style salutes to surprised passerbys from the window seat at EAYC. The vibe persists today, but the restaurants are better and the crime seems better.
I waited tables at Micks (aka Bucks- Now the site of Parkers). We would go to L5P and the VA Highlands after work when we didn’t want to go to Trackside Tavern. There really wasn’t much else to do for a 21 yr old to do in Decatur in 1990. What a huge change!
Ah, the Point. I was just listending last week to a live album recorded there—Slick Night Out from Donkey. Whatever happened to those guys?
Pearl Jam played the Point summer of 1991.
Bridgetown Grill?
Yes! Went to Bridgetown Grill on one of my first dates with my wife in ’93.
Loved Bridgetown Grill. Still miss La Fonda down there. Sigh
“Back in the 1990’s hey-day” Boy, do i feel old! I really enjoyed the hey-day of the 80’s, maybe even the one in the late 70’s.
What’s “the 90s”?
Pretty sure I recognized some of those same people still hanging out there today.
This makes me feel incredibly old. I can’t even get the pic to pull up for some reason but don’t need to because I can still visualize it. I do miss the old L5P. I miss the Bridgetown before they added the other locations & got all crappy. Sev was so much cooler in the old location. Ahhhhh, the good ‘ol days (oh, that isn’t there anymore either!).
Little Five Points Pub… 1984!
And up until it closed in the summer of 1990. What a sad day.
I saw so many bands there: REM, Michelle Malone and Drag the River, Indigo Girls, Drivin’ and Cryin’, Pylon, Drive-by Truckers, Derek Trucks Band, Opal Foxx Quartet, B-52s, Georgia Satellites, Love Tractor, Vic Chestnutt, Ellen James Society, Kristen Hall, The Black Crowes (although they played more at the Point), The Jody Grind, Magnapop, Swimming Pool Qs, various combinations of the Allman Brothers band members, Dream So Real, Insane Jane, Mary My Hope, Deacon Lunchbox, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Band, Bill Taft with everyone and so many more.
Anyone remember the black & white calendar that came out around 1990 with Atlanta and Athen’s banks featured? I wish I still had it …
OMG – Swimming Pool Qs!!! That’s a blast from the past!!!
Highlight of my college career was seeing the Violent Femmes at 688 in 1985.
And then there was the Hoodoo Gurus at Emory….
And the free REM concerts at UGA.
And the Lawrence Welk Show… ……. wait a minute……
I was at that Violent Femmes show! Oh how I loved that first album of theirs.
That list really makes me nostalgic….What local bands will the kids remember longingly 20 years from now? Does anyone even make music any more?
Derek Trucks Band wasn’t formed until ’94 and Drive-By Truckers didn’t get together until ’96. Where can we get some of what you were on in ’91???
Okay — got a little carried away by the trucks. I saw them all — maybe not all at the Pub. I forgot some people: Kristen Hall, Dede Vogt (and her bands), oh and a guy I forget today but remembered last night…
About the only differences I can discern are that The Point is gone, there were more yuppies hanging around back then, and the homeless people hadn’t yet completely taken over.
If you think yuppies hung out in Little 5 back then, you weren’t there. It’s coated in suburbanites and yuppies now
AMEN! That festival video is very yuppie. Not at all how I remember L5P in 1990. But that year seems to mark the beginning of a new era for the neighborhood.
That might have been my father’s Oldsmobile at the end of the video…
“there were more yuppies hanging around back then, and the homeless people hadn’t yet completely taken over.”
I bet the homeless people sure are happy they triumphed over the yuppies.
Triumphed is an understatement. They literally and figuratively crapped all over our yards.
So we all moved to Oakhurst.
Wow… we moved to Oakhurst for the same reason! That… and I couldn’t really picture my kids hanging out in Little Five like they do now in Decatur.
Gainesville, Fl–well, well before Four Squirrels–lessthan Jake was way cooler and HEAVIER that year.
Five points–stay wee-yerd, tools.
I wouldn’t say that is terrobly representative of what L5P looked like in 1990. the cvideo looks pretty white bread and festival day to be typical.
I was around there then -this is around when the Point was shut down for a coupke years for serving people underage and the Little Five Points Pub was still there (Chris and Bruce Lutz reopened the Point sometime around 1992 and operated the Stein Club, too) there were a lot of scenes there then- hippies, mods & ska, punks, SHARPs, rasta-types, folkies, all sorts of scenes. I was mostly in the punk and skateboard scene, but most of the scenes mingled and interconnected quite a bit. Mostly hanging out all day then taking the train at Inman Park back to Decatur….
There is even a Facebook page for the old L5P punks. Pretty funny,.
Excuse the typos.
The League of Decency at The Point! Great music, fine times.
The Pub in the late 70’s and 80’s was my favorite bar ever. No place else, no matter how cool, has ever quite matched it for me. Meanwhile, 1990 seems like about six months ago. How can it have been 21 years? What the hell!?!?!
Great video. The last gasp of old weird Atlanta. Was that leighton Moore plain guitar?
I still miss the Point and the Pub – used to wander back and forth to see who was playing. I think this video was a little more white bread than it was, but I am sure I was part of that trend – college kid paying hippie but born too late. My heyday down there was roughly ’86- early ’90s so I half expected to see someone I knew in the video! It is funny how dated the fashion is! Was it really that long ago?
BTW, @Donkey – they’ve gone their separate ways. They had a reunion show at Smiths some years ago, but a real reunion doesn’t seem to be in the cards.
When did they fill in the stairs on moreland with cement? I thought about it the other day
Oof yes. I saw so many bands in L5P. And opened for American Music Club, played with the Jody Grind, Black Crowes, Mitch Easter, Shadow Puppets, Doll Squad, Big Fish Ensemble, Shock Lobo. Used to shoot the breeze with Chan Marshall when she was slingin’ pizza at Fellinis. Definitely learned a lot about playing music there. Now I just want those kids to stay the hell off my lawn.
of all of them, I miss Jody Grind most of all. brilliant band, two great albums, career cut short. I think the albums are timeless
Ahhh, yes, Jody Grind was indeed a great band. FYI – Kelly Hogan has been singing and touring with Neko Case for awhile now.
Yes, she has a big role on Neko’s last CD and Garrison interviewed her last year when Neko was the featured performor on his saturday show.
Anybody remember eating dinner at Mama Hull’s, and Deacon Burton’s across the street?
I was having lunch at Ma Hull’s one day (probably in 1975!). She told me about some guy ‘from England” who had eaten there the day before. I found out later that day from the AJC, that guy was Mick Jagger, who played later that day at the Municipal Auditorium.
I also ate many time at the Deacons. He would ring a cow bell whenever a politcian came in. I saw Andy Young, Jimmy Carter and and many others there. Looks like Sons Placeis now closed.
This was just before I discovered L5P and rented my first apartment on Elizabeth St. That’s Slim Chance, one of the architects of the Redneck Underground, playing in the background for most of the clip. He and the Convicts are still playing after 25 years. Go see them at Kavarna on July 16 with original member Jon Byrd, who is now a Nashville stalwart. Wish I had seen them at the Austin Avenue Buffet back in the day. Saw a bunch of the bands that Nellie Belle listed, though I never got to see Deacon Lunchbox. And for those that wonder if they still make music in L5P anymore, the answer is yes! Go out and see some of it you old farts! I am almost 50 with 2 kids and I still get out whenever I get a chance. You can afford a babysitter and a taxi home if you live in Decatur, so go see live music: Gentleman Jesse and His Men, the Forty-Fives, Noot d’ Noot, Anna Kramer, Caroline and the Ramblers, The Biters, Ghost Rider Car Club, AM Gold, Sonoramic Commando, Kingsized, any band with Johnny McGowan, any band with Jonathan Lloyd–L5P lives on!
Great list! I should go see them in L5P more often. My mid-year resolution!