Atlanta has changed at a staggering pace the last quarter century.
Below are collections of images that highlight elements of transition.
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- This was shot in Underground Atlanta during its dormancy in the mid eighties.
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- The kids called this abandoned house La Hacienda. The location at the corner of Ponce and Clifton is now town homes.
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- This store was at the corner of Sampson and Irwin streets.
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- Women’s prison on Glenwood Ave before it was redeveloped.
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- Parking lot on Edgewood ave.
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- For a number of years, the “Peachtree Plaza” stood alone as Atlanta’s skyscraper.
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- As a fleeting monument to a communities power to fight unwanted “progress”, this wall was eventually removed when Freedom Park was built.
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- Many houses around Little Five points wore banners such as these during the fight to prevent “The Road” in its original form.
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- At the corner of Auburn and Boulevard avenues.
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- This was a short time before Freedom Parkway was built.
The Pink Pig was a Christmas children’s ride on the rooftop of Rich’s department store in downtown Atlanta, operating from around 1950 to 1990.
I like to capture Atlanta scenes that bring out the emotion in Atlantans.
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- At the finish line of the Peachtree Road Race the hydrants were used to create rain.
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- There was a wonderful group of musicians that used to gather at the Piedmont Road entrance to Piedmont Park during the art festival.
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- Cleaning up for the Mattress Factory show, probably the warehouse that is now the Cabbagetown Lofts.
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- A protest outside the capital during the 88 Democratic Convention.
