Atlanta, Georgia 1965: Neither the Braves nor the Falcons had started playing here yet, SEC football teams were still segregated, and the Civic Center had just been constructed as part of an urban renewal project. If one looked downtown on Peachtree Street from a point just south of Collier Road, one would see a First National Bank building and a Texaco station on the right. Here's the same view 40 years later:
The Texaco station has been replaced by a one-story restaurant building and although the First National Bank building was still there in 2005, it's gone now, replaced by The Brookwood, a large condominium tower. But the biggest difference of all might be the tall Midtown office buildings that weren't there in 1965 visible down the road.Here's a view looking up Peachtree towards the north back in 1965:
And here's the same view today:
Some areas around here haven't changed as much. Here's the intersection of Peachtree and Collier Roads from 1965:
Although Andy George's has since been replaced by Mama Fu's Noodle House, the building is still basically the same today:
And at the southern end of the same building, it looks like the Hardware / Appliances / Records store was struggling for business back in 1965.
While at the same location today, Brazil Fine Italian Menswear has since closed (possibly due to confusion over its concept) and Granny Taught Us How is still open for now although I've never seen a customer in there.
A little further to the north, here's a view near the intersection of Peachtree and Peachtree Battle Roads circa 1965:
And here's the same instersection today:
I used to work out at the Kick karate studio for a while, but that portion of the building started to subside into Peachtree Creek, which flows right underneath that Ringling Brothers sign, and the studio subsequently moved away. The sagging building still stands, however, although now empty.Here's a current view of Peachtree Road looking north toward the corner of Collier and Peachtree:
And here's a somewhat optimistic conception of what it may look like in 10 or so years:
And here's an artistic representation of what it might look like in 110 years:
You can draw your own conclusions about impermanence from here.
4 comments:
Wow, nice pictures! I love those kind of pictures. In someway they made me feel happy and calm. Life is constantly changing and sometimes it's good to look in the past. But past is past but it can really teach us sometimes.
Anyway, thank you, lovely post!
one of the pictures you date as 1965 hasn't got any cars from later than 1950.
How did you determine the date?
Glad you liked the pics, Uku, and thanks for your comments.
The first two "before" pictures were identified as 1965 on the web site at which I had found them. I had assumed that they were all of the same vintage, although Greensmile is right and some of the other ones do look a bit older.
I now have a Peachtree "before" picture. The google satellite view in a post I wrote about visiting Buckhead, which I knew at the time to be out of date, was eventually updated. Rather than a vacant lot as seen earlier, the massive bank that was all but finished when we visited is what shows.
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