I come back to this video to reminisce on good feelings of old times. Nowadays it has been 4 shootings at Lenox Mall in the pass 3 months, I use to love Lenox Mall. And whoever chose the songs in this video definitely grew up in Atlanta I believe.I am 49yrs old, and those who grew up in Atlanta during this time I believe will agree that the music is perfect .
lifendeath Chzlife I was born in the 90s my mom would always take us downtown on Marta and when we left the station in front of the station there where vendors and we would head to underground. It’s not the same anymore at all. Even the varsity food isn’t the same.
@@seveynroses3327 If I had known my City was going to change into what it is now(a hell hole),I would've enjoyed it more. Wow!! Stopping in undergrounds Ruby Tuesdays, Then riding up peachtree to Lenox, then we would hit Cumberland mall, then the Galleria, I could go on and on!! It was so fun back then! Now I just work and come home, being out and about just isn't me anymore. But when I do occasionally go out it's to Virginia Highlands.
@@rajetmills4985 I wasn't even going to address such a stupid comment, but thanks! You are exactly right! Crime, terrible customer service, bad drivers, hateful people, etc, doesn't even compare to the hell hole Atlanta has become. Being downtown was a stress reliever for me! Everyone was actually moving, walking and shopping. People who make comments like this person are part of the problem. They ignore the obvious, or they are too sick in the mind to realize the problem.
Damn, I can't believe they didn't showcase the punk scene that was big in the 80s around Midtown...specifically Little Five Points. Wow....those were the days!
Seth Johnson I'd be glad to. I wasn't part of the punk scene but I definitely remember it and went to high school with kids that were definitely part of it so I could also put you in contact with some folks who lived it if you'd like. Glad someone is addressing this....I'm shocked that no one has hardly addressed it. I've been searching for articles and pictures for over a year and nearly nothing!! Can you believe that!! It's almost like Atlanta is ashamed of the punk scene that owned Little Five Points in the first place.
You won't find the neon yellow blob on the internet though.. Passed it a lot downtown. I was also a "grady baby" but moved right before gentrification hit Dekalb. People think I'm lying when I say we had dirtbike and gocart dirt tracks in Brookhaven up till the 90s...
Really interesting. I'm a Grady Baby so I remember this and a whole lot more. Went in the service in the 80s and nowhere was like Atlanta. I love this city.
wow. I'm 20 and I live in Georgia and I like going up to Atlanta, but it really seems like it's now just a shell of what it used to really be. there's still cool stuff here and there, but it seemed a lot more fun back then.
Jim Morrison mentions how impressed he was with the inside of the Hyatt Regency in an interview sometime near his death. he had been here for a film festival. the doors had already broke up I believe.
Not anymore.... Probably because most of them were from other places and they moved back to wherever they're from. But yeah! Atlanta USED to be the shit. Now, it's just shit.
@@beammeupscottie7042 actually its quite the contrary, those women were native born and they were the ones that left and the ones that move in brought ugly with them from everywhere else.
Atlanta still got ALL the beautiful, darkskin, brown skin & foreign n white women...go to Lenox mall or somewhere & you'll see sum of the most FINE women ever.@@Parnell50
Atlanta was an amazing place from the 80's through the 90's into the early 2000's. Unfortunately, it will never be like these videos ever again. It is the Chicago of the South, and for all the wrong reasons! During this time Atlanta was working to unite and Rise like the Phoenix. Which it accomplished up into the 1996 Olympics. But the start of the demise was when Katrina hit New Orleans. Many years from now they will trace the demise to that fateful event. Since then the only thing that matters are the corporations. The city left the common person long ago. I'm glad I got to see Atlanta during these final Golden Years! If you ever got to ride on the Original Painted Pig then, you can relate!
2 questions about Vine City: What was the name of the apartment complex at the corner of West End Ave & Ashby (now Joseph Lowery Blvd), where the Ray Charles Center is now? And did Foundry, Magnolia & all those other parallel streets run across Northside to where GA Dome was?
The 1996 Olympics RUINED Atlanta. Anyone who lived during the 80s/90s will tell you this. After the Olympics, the corporate overlords moved in and started getting rid of a lot of old school establishments that really made the city a gem. The ghetto thugs shooting up Buckhead didn't help matters either, and an ENTIRE diverse bar/club area for 3 blocks was bulldozed shortly after and is now overpriced apartments. These types of things have continued and there are not many cool spots left, and new ones have not sprung up to take their place. The Atlanta city government has always been corrupt, but Bill Campbell (1994-2002) was one of the worst and ushered in a new wave of corruption that allowed these types of events to flourish. Atlanta since then has just been about money, bad government, increasing crime, and dead areas that were once a thriving diverse community. RIP
I remember when Buckhead had a thriving nightlife/club/bar scene in the 90's. That was so much fun! I can remember bar hopping and dancing all night. We always started at Lulu's with a giant fishbowl.
I didn’t expect them to mention that. I’m an Atlanta native and although I wasn’t born until well after the child murders happened my mom taught me that it won’t be shared a lot because that was poor black kids from the projects and they were lucky that the news covered it at all.
Back then, it was the finest city in the Southeast - Memphis, New Orleans, Charlotte, Birmingham were no match. It has suffered the fate of most medium-to-large American cities - corrupt municipal government, a huge homeless problem and the disappearance of a middle Class. A home that cost $13,000 in 1970 now goes for over $300,000.
47 Goon LMFAO, oh, I saw which one is yo' daddy, he was the one wavin' at you, don't be mad at me because yo' daddy works at The Varsity, STILL, from way back in the 80's, and we're almost into 2018, smh, that nigga' should be part owner by now...
47 Goon Yeah, mostly Whites are operating it, in supervisory positions, but the majority of the subordinates at The Varsity, are Blacks, and that won't change. Oh, okay nigga', but are you sure that ain't yo' daddy, he was wavin' real hard, like he knows you're watching him on CZcams, lol, I'm sorry, I just had to get that one in, smh...
@@susanhurst3292 Who are you, the "post" police. If YT didn't remove anything I posted, then it can't be all that bad. Do you have a job, don't be concern if I have one or not, you pay nothing for me...
and now Josh Smith is gone off to a new team----. Ted Turner lost his mind, wish he would have bought back the Braves, Thrashers, and Hawks... Gallery Furniture doesn't air ads anymore, GA State has some nice girls, Coke is It!. Stone Mountain is a Georgia Landmark.
I think it was filmed in the very late 80s probly around 88’ 89’ due to midtown’s skyline just beginning to take shape like the former ibm tower (now one Atlantic center) was just completed as some neighboring buildings where being built while the B.O.A. Plaza nor where peach tree center or, sun trust bank building built yet. Those where built around the mid 90s. I know my skylines :D
MARTA stand for Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta. OMNI stand for One Million Niggaz Inside. That’s what we thought them folks really meant when I was young. Decatur where’s it Greater baby✊🏾107 Glenwood
Atlanta Ga is capable of being the most prominent and aspiring place one should be proud to call home due to all the amendies the city has to offer but the division racewise power control and otherwise is where the city requires major improvements. The homosexuality and the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children fully unresolved murder case matters until full justice is served Atlanta will have a permanent stain on it. There has to be closure and resolve for the sake of grieving mothers and love ones sake The state of New York has a major business interest and control over Atlanta and Decatur Ga. West Palm.Beach FL other. DP
I MOVED THERE BACK IN 1972 AND LEFT IN 2000, I SAW THE NIGHT CLUB SCENE COME TO LIFE IN THE 70S AND 80S AND SAW A LOT OF GREAT CONCERTS, OUTSIDE OF HAVING TO MANY BLACKS IT WAS A FUN PLACE CAUSE IF WE DID NOT WANT THE BLACKS AROUND WE JUST SIMPLY IGNORED THEM OR TOLD THEM THAT WE WERE NOT INTERESTED IN BUYING WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO SELL, WHICH WAS EITHER STOLEN OR BULLSHIT AND THAT WAS THAT.
@@db4695 not all of us, I have my cow permit and I walk where I want and feel safe anyone that trays something gets their ads blown away, plain and simple.
Yes, but we weren't really welcomed in most downtown establishments. We splurged at the expensive stores downtown; however,we had many more Black businesses,in 2 business districts. Hunter St.(now MLK,Jr.Drive) and Auburn Ave. One of the few disadvantages of integration was that we took our business to places as a form of status.
I MOVED TO ATLANTA BACK IN 1974, I LIVED IN AN AREA KNOWN AS GWINNETT COUNTY, BETWEEN STONE MOUNTAIN AND SNELLVILLE. THERE WAS LESS THAN 15,000 PPL IN THE COUNTY( NOW OVER A MILLION) IT WAS ABOUT 99.9 PERCENT WHITE. ALL THE BLACKS LIVED IN DECATUR, ATLANTA, AND IN THE SOUTH WEST AREAS OF ATLANTA AND THEY DID NOT VENTURE IN THE SUBURBS WHERE I LIVED AT. IT WAS LIKE THAT UP TO ABOUT THE 90S AND THEY ALL STARTED INTEGRATING IN, EVEN BACK IN 1972 WE CONSIDERED ATLANTA A CHOCOLATE CITY WHICH IT REALLY WASNT COMPARED TO TODAY BUT THE HIGH SCHOOL I WENT TO WAS ALL WHITE AND IT WAS A GREAT TIME. ( NOT BECAUSE IT WAS PREDOMINANTLY WHITE IN THE SUBURBS BUT I SAW THE RISE OF THE NIGHTCLUB SCENE GROW IN ATLANTA IN THE 80S AND A LOT OF GOOD CONCERTS AND IT WAS A GREAT TIME TO BE LIVING IN THE ATLANTA AREA, I HAVE BEEN GONE FOR ALMOST 20 YRS AND WENT BACK LAST YR FOR A VISIT AND COULD NOT BELIEVE ALL THE CHANGES I SAW AND NOT FOR THE BETTER UNFORTUNATELY, I COULD NEVER LIVE THERE AGAIN BUT IT WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF MY PAST THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET.
Seems the only people that ever built anything worth preserving get called racist. Kind of funny how everyone else just sit on their fat asses and collects handouts.
@@thackythac You need to go read some definitions. Conservatism built this country it’s everything else that you idiots cling onto that’s warping and destroying it.
I got here in 1995 when I 16. The best decision I've ever made. I absolutely love the Atl. Sadly all of this beauty is getting very expensive.
Cuz of transplants like u
Remember the theme to "Good Day Atlanta"? It was a catchy sax solo.
I come back to this video to reminisce on good feelings of old times. Nowadays it has been 4 shootings at Lenox Mall in the pass 3 months, I use to love Lenox Mall. And whoever chose the songs in this video definitely grew up in Atlanta I believe.I am 49yrs old, and those who grew up in Atlanta during this time I believe will agree that the music is perfect .
lifendeath Chzlife I was born in the 90s my mom would always take us downtown on Marta and when we left the station in front of the station there where vendors and we would head to underground. It’s not the same anymore at all. Even the varsity food isn’t the same.
@@seveynroses3327 If I had known my City was going to change into what it is now(a hell hole),I would've enjoyed it more. Wow!! Stopping in undergrounds Ruby Tuesdays, Then riding up peachtree to Lenox, then we would hit Cumberland mall, then the Galleria, I could go on and on!! It was so fun back then! Now I just work and come home, being out and about just isn't me anymore. But when I do occasionally go out it's to Virginia Highlands.
You must have amnesia! Crime was WAY worse in the 80s and 90s compared to today.
@@shivtimnot in Atlanta. Atlanta more dangerous now than back then
@@rajetmills4985 I wasn't even going to address such a stupid comment, but thanks! You are exactly right! Crime, terrible customer service, bad drivers, hateful people, etc, doesn't even compare to the hell hole Atlanta has become. Being downtown was a stress reliever for me! Everyone was actually moving, walking and shopping. People who make comments like this person are part of the problem. They ignore the obvious, or they are too sick in the mind to realize the problem.
Kinda got emotional when I saw Willie B.
Grady baby myself 1958, btw, The big Chicken is in Marietta.
The Atlanta I was raised in.
Lucky.
Yep! Nothing like the 80’s Atlanta
Damn, I can't believe they didn't showcase the punk scene that was big in the 80s around Midtown...specifically Little Five Points. Wow....those were the days!
+Lizzie Beth Would you be willing to discuss some stories with me? I'm writing a script about that very subject. SethJohnsonN@Gmail.com
Seth Johnson I'd be glad to. I wasn't part of the punk scene but I definitely remember it and went to high school with kids that were definitely part of it so I could also put you in contact with some folks who lived it if you'd like.
Glad someone is addressing this....I'm shocked that no one has hardly addressed it. I've been searching for articles and pictures for over a year and nearly nothing!! Can you believe that!! It's almost like Atlanta is ashamed of the punk scene that owned Little Five Points in the first place.
Lizzie Beth
Thanks so much for responding! I'd greatly appreciate talking to anyone who has a good story or two! SethJohnsonN@Gmail.com
Lizzie Beth: Baby and the pacifiers!
Lizzie Beth my dad took me to lil 5 back then and I saw people with those big hot pink Mohawks... that's something to a 8 year old
I laughed 😂
You won't find the neon yellow blob on the internet though.. Passed it a lot downtown. I was also a "grady baby" but moved right before gentrification hit Dekalb. People think I'm lying when I say we had dirtbike and gocart dirt tracks in Brookhaven up till the 90s...
Sounds rad. I remember riding dirt bikes and four wheelers all over Douglasville in the 90's. Life was great back then.
Really interesting. I'm a Grady Baby so I remember this and a whole lot more. Went in the service in the 80s and nowhere was like Atlanta. I love this city.
Demetrius Harper lol 2 of my kid's a Grady baby's I'm a Crawford long baby myself but never the less I'm a native to Atlanta lol👍
I love it too. I can't see myself moving anywhere else. I don't care how expensive it gets.
@@timedwards8944 Whatever happened to Crawford Long?
@@padussia it's still there not 100% if its still called Crawford long though but its still there 👍👍👍
@@timedwards8944 its Emory Hospital now.
It's definitely a different city now. in the near future, this city will be the new LA. I love it here!
Me too.
God I hope not!!
Sadly. It’s turning into a shithole just like LA.
I remember the 80's quite well...!!!!
wow. I'm 20 and I live in Georgia and I like going up to Atlanta, but it really seems like it's now just a shell of what it used to really be. there's still cool stuff here and there, but it seemed a lot more fun back then.
same here, I just recently started going to Atlanta again and it's just not the same.
less traffic back then and taxes was not so high.. like it is now days smh.
Wow, I miss good old " Hot lanta"
ME TOO! Best place on Earth.
I miss Atlanta in the 80’s really to be honest 70’s.
A lot of what was there in the 70s lasted till the early nineties... There were still dirt roads up till I left in '93 in the middle of Dekalb
@@tjinspace7001 actually there are still some dirt roads on the Westside of Atlanta to this day. I saw on the news the city was trying to pave them.
@@tjinspace7001 pretty normal, county is poor AF either way.
I was born in 1982 in Atlanta GA at Grady hospital so I don't really remember to much in 80s Because I so young
Wow. Lenox mall has come a long way...
Now it's elitist and overpriced. I want Taco Bell back in the food court.
I liked it better when it was mom and pop shops. All oringal or mostly.
I hate to be negative, but it's mostly ghetto now.
@@padussia lmao fax. Shit has shootings like every week now
It was mostly neon lights and cigarette smoke in the 80s
I miss 80´s...
Jim Morrison mentions how impressed he was with the inside of the Hyatt Regency in an interview sometime near his death. he had been here for a film festival. the doors had already broke up I believe.
His family is from Rome, Georgia.
Pre 1996 Olympics ATL lol.
Atlanta had some of the most beautiful women I've ever seen
Not anymore....
Probably because most of them were from other places and they moved back to wherever they're from. But yeah! Atlanta USED to be the shit. Now, it's just shit.
@@beammeupscottie7042 actually its quite the contrary, those women were native born and they were the ones that left and the ones that move in brought ugly with them from everywhere else.
Atlanta still got ALL the beautiful, darkskin, brown skin & foreign n white women...go to Lenox mall or somewhere & you'll see sum of the most FINE women ever.@@Parnell50
Now we have women like Stacey Abrams. EEWWWW.
Still does!
I saw so many great concerts at the iconic Fox Theatre back then. Anybody remember the Limelight Disco in the early 80's?
And the dam expressway was all messed up back then what the hell am I saying still is
Whatya have?!
Whatya have?!
Whatya have?!
Benny Stanley let's to the varsity
Benny Stanley Varsity
I am ashamed to say, that I have been living in Atlanta for 25 years and have never been to the varsity.
❤❤❤
First affair in Peachtree St. Across from the fabulous Fox Theatre1983
Atlanta was an amazing place from the 80's through the 90's into the early 2000's. Unfortunately, it will never be like these videos ever again. It is the Chicago of the South, and for all the wrong reasons! During this time Atlanta was working to unite and Rise like the Phoenix. Which it accomplished up into the 1996 Olympics. But the start of the demise was when Katrina hit New Orleans. Many years from now they will trace the demise to that fateful event. Since then the only thing that matters are the corporations. The city left the common person long ago. I'm glad I got to see Atlanta during these final Golden Years! If you ever got to ride on the Original Painted Pig then, you can relate!
I MISS YOU ATLANTA!!! I'M HERE BUT YOU'RE GONE.
😢
The good old days
I grew up in Atlanta. I graduated from North Springs High School (now a charter school) back in 1983. To be honest, it feels like yesterday.
I love seeing other cities looks nice
Its so weird seeing the Queen tower without the King tower next to it yet
2 questions about Vine City: What was the name of the apartment complex at the corner of West End Ave & Ashby (now Joseph Lowery Blvd), where the Ray Charles Center is now? And did Foundry, Magnolia & all those other parallel streets run across Northside to where GA Dome was?
It was Harris Homes projects
The 1996 Olympics RUINED Atlanta. Anyone who lived during the 80s/90s will tell you this. After the Olympics, the corporate overlords moved in and started getting rid of a lot of old school establishments that really made the city a gem. The ghetto thugs shooting up Buckhead didn't help matters either, and an ENTIRE diverse bar/club area for 3 blocks was bulldozed shortly after and is now overpriced apartments. These types of things have continued and there are not many cool spots left, and new ones have not sprung up to take their place. The Atlanta city government has always been corrupt, but Bill Campbell (1994-2002) was one of the worst and ushered in a new wave of corruption that allowed these types of events to flourish. Atlanta since then has just been about money, bad government, increasing crime, and dead areas that were once a thriving diverse community. RIP
100 percent
The one nice thing about the Olympics was that all the locals left for two weeks. No traffic at all.
I remember when Buckhead had a thriving nightlife/club/bar scene in the 90's. That was so much fun! I can remember bar hopping and dancing all night. We always started at Lulu's with a giant fishbowl.
@@cdrogers72 I remember the fishbowls at Lulu's Bait Shack! That was the golden era of Buckhead. So many cool bars and clubs of all different types.
💯. Whitaker Miles Arnold Westmoreland, George descendant. SWEET Auburn Ave. , BTW. 40's and 80' , Old First and Fair Street Survivor.
Forgot to mention the Atlanta child murders😒😔
Ok
"Forgot to mention the fallen state of Man."
I didn’t expect them to mention that. I’m an Atlanta native and although I wasn’t born until well after the child murders happened my mom taught me that it won’t be shared a lot because that was poor black kids from the projects and they were lucky that the news covered it at all.
Forgot? This was not a history review genius. You’re just looking for a reason to be a negative loser, good job.
2:02 Dude was happy! 😄
82 to 98...I loved it....
Back then, it was the finest city in the Southeast - Memphis, New Orleans, Charlotte, Birmingham were no match. It has suffered the fate of most medium-to-large American cities - corrupt municipal government, a huge homeless problem and the disappearance of a middle Class. A home that cost $13,000 in 1970 now goes for over $300,000.
When the Waverly at galleria opened I got a chance to meet the great architect! John Portman who was with Trammell Crow!!
Remember “Peaches Records and Tapes” or even “OZ”?
Ahhhhh the good times
I worked for Delta and remember opening the "new" airport in September 1980.
When your Television sound-off back in the days !
why don't I dont see an option to watch this in 1080HD ?
Basically when Rich’s left...that was it lol.
Shoot the hooch dam there used to be thousands of people going down the Chattahoochee back then
Chucka Nigga river
Pozdrav iz Beograda🇷🇸
Lol yall didn't see Willie B 🤣 good Ole days for sure
Those two guys are probably still working at The Varsity...
47 Goon LMFAO, oh, I saw which one is yo' daddy, he was the one wavin' at you, don't be mad at me because yo' daddy works at The Varsity, STILL, from way back in the 80's, and we're almost into 2018, smh, that nigga' should be part owner by now...
47 Goon Yeah, mostly Whites are operating it, in supervisory positions, but the majority of the subordinates at The Varsity, are Blacks, and that won't change. Oh, okay nigga', but are you sure that ain't yo' daddy, he was wavin' real hard, like he knows you're watching him on CZcams, lol, I'm sorry, I just had to get that one in, smh...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@ShawnC.T. shame on you for posting this, I quite sure if you had a job, you probably fired now, for writing such a terrible message
@@susanhurst3292 Who are you, the "post" police. If YT didn't remove anything I posted, then it can't be all that bad. Do you have a job, don't be concern if I have one or not, you pay nothing for me...
i wish i can go back to atlanta ga but i cant cause they deport me atlanta a beutiful pleace 😢😢
The wall's not up yet but you better hurry!
you Brazilian?
@@Parnell50 -"Oh, the wall going up!!!" -JLP
yea!
and now Josh Smith is gone off to a new team----. Ted Turner lost his mind, wish he would have bought back the Braves, Thrashers, and Hawks... Gallery Furniture doesn't air ads anymore, GA State has some nice girls, Coke is It!. Stone Mountain is a Georgia Landmark.
decent trumpet player
Cumberland mall was in back then??? Lol
The Braves think it is now.
+Rafael Albarran yeah, can you imagine? and hardly a black face to be seen.
Rafael Albarran Now theres more black people its even better ! 😁
It sure was a great mall
Remember “Carry’s” restaurant just north of Dobbin’s AFB on U.S. 41? Best hamburgers in the World.
The Atlanta you get stabbed in
Still is lol
Now it’s the one you get shot in. Wow isn’t diversity grand?
Some of the buildings there showing wasn't even here in the 80s🤔
That’s weird considering the whole thing was filmed in the 80s. The fuck is wrong with you
I think it was filmed in the very late 80s probly around 88’ 89’ due to midtown’s skyline just beginning to take shape like the former ibm tower (now one Atlantic center) was just completed as some neighboring buildings where being built while the B.O.A. Plaza nor where peach tree center or, sun trust bank building built yet. Those where built around the mid 90s. I know my skylines :D
The music at the beginning sounds like a bad porn movie.
The city died with Willie B.
Everyone knows what MARTA and the OMNI stand for?
Google it
Marta stands for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
MARTA stand for Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta.
OMNI stand for One Million Niggaz Inside.
That’s what we thought them folks really meant when I was young. Decatur where’s it Greater baby✊🏾107 Glenwood
@Eveistrong Saint Shawty lmbo. I'm from Atlanta and never heard the omni breakdown. I guess the whole city is the omni cause we full
OMG please let there be footage from the Juneteenth festivals we used to have.
Nobody cares about that fake holiday just like nobody cares about the bullshit Freaknik crap you guys used to pull.
@@thomasjefferson2676 “no one cares” but you mad as fuck talking about something allegedly no one cares about lol
@@thomasjefferson2676 Lots of people care and Freaknik is super famous. You don't have to resent stuff you don't celebrate or participate in.
Freaknik was bullshit
@songnigga72
They say I love l,a but i love a,l or should say a,t,l ......
Funny thing they only showing goo atlanta
Atlanta Ga is capable of being the most prominent and aspiring place one should be proud to call home due to all the amendies the city has to offer but the division racewise power control and otherwise is where the city requires major improvements. The homosexuality and the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children fully unresolved murder case matters until full justice is served Atlanta will have a permanent stain on it. There has to be closure and resolve for the sake of grieving mothers and love ones sake The state of New York has a major business interest and control over Atlanta and Decatur Ga. West Palm.Beach FL other. DP
#videorobot
How does this relate to 9/11
lmao! you might see one Caucasian in a busload!
0:01 - 1:16
Terrible fucking music.
naw son thats A T L A N T A C O R E
I MOVED THERE BACK IN 1972 AND LEFT IN 2000, I SAW THE NIGHT CLUB SCENE COME TO LIFE IN THE 70S AND 80S AND SAW A LOT OF GREAT CONCERTS, OUTSIDE OF HAVING TO MANY BLACKS IT WAS A FUN PLACE CAUSE IF WE DID NOT WANT THE BLACKS AROUND WE JUST SIMPLY IGNORED THEM OR TOLD THEM THAT WE WERE NOT INTERESTED IN BUYING WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO SELL, WHICH WAS EITHER STOLEN OR BULLSHIT AND THAT WAS THAT.
Stfu
Darryl Lowe I WILL SAY WHAT I WANT AND THERE IS NOT A DAM THING YOU CAN SAY OR DO ABOUT IT.
@@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead I can say stfu again bitch
White people too scared these days, so y’all just forced to be angry over the internet haha
@@db4695 not all of us, I have my cow permit and I walk where I want and feel safe anyone that trays something gets their ads blown away, plain and simple.
Please I don't mean to be offensive at all. But did Atlanta have much black people back then as they do now?
No
Yes, but we weren't really welcomed in most downtown establishments. We splurged at the expensive stores downtown; however,we had many more Black businesses,in 2 business districts. Hunter St.(now MLK,Jr.Drive) and Auburn Ave. One of the few disadvantages of integration was that we took our business to places as a form of status.
Yep probably more.
Look up the acronym “MARTA”
I MOVED TO ATLANTA BACK IN 1974, I LIVED IN AN AREA KNOWN AS GWINNETT COUNTY, BETWEEN STONE MOUNTAIN AND SNELLVILLE. THERE WAS LESS THAN 15,000 PPL IN THE COUNTY( NOW OVER A MILLION) IT WAS ABOUT 99.9 PERCENT WHITE. ALL THE BLACKS LIVED IN DECATUR, ATLANTA, AND IN THE SOUTH WEST AREAS OF ATLANTA AND THEY DID NOT VENTURE IN THE SUBURBS WHERE I LIVED AT. IT WAS LIKE THAT UP TO ABOUT THE 90S AND THEY ALL STARTED INTEGRATING IN, EVEN BACK IN 1972 WE CONSIDERED ATLANTA A CHOCOLATE CITY WHICH IT REALLY WASNT COMPARED TO TODAY BUT THE HIGH SCHOOL I WENT TO WAS ALL WHITE AND IT WAS A GREAT TIME. ( NOT BECAUSE IT WAS PREDOMINANTLY WHITE IN THE SUBURBS BUT I SAW THE RISE OF THE NIGHTCLUB SCENE GROW IN ATLANTA IN THE 80S AND A LOT OF GOOD CONCERTS AND IT WAS A GREAT TIME TO BE LIVING IN THE ATLANTA AREA, I HAVE BEEN GONE FOR ALMOST 20 YRS AND WENT BACK LAST YR FOR A VISIT AND COULD NOT BELIEVE ALL THE CHANGES I SAW AND NOT FOR THE BETTER UNFORTUNATELY, I COULD NEVER LIVE THERE AGAIN BUT IT WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF MY PAST THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET.
“Racist monument”
Seems the only people that ever built anything worth preserving get called racist. Kind of funny how everyone else just sit on their fat asses and collects handouts.
I was born in Atlanta my grandparents lived off deeringroad it was a good city till they turned it over to the blacks like mohomed reed
you are a fucking idiot
ev dallas I am from Atlanta and black, i agree 100%.
Who conservatives? That is true, they have screwed up everywhere they have went. Conservatism is the cancer of humanity.
Sadly you’re right
@@thackythac You need to go read some definitions. Conservatism built this country it’s everything else that you idiots cling onto that’s warping and destroying it.
i wish i can go back to atlanta ga but i cant cause they deport me atlanta a beutiful pleace 😢😢