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Old 01-21-2014, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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Just posted! This 1950 photo of a bunch of Coca-cola delivery trucks lined up on the not-yet-opened Downtown Connector, photographed from the 10th Street Bridge in Midtown looking south toward downtown, has to be one of the most remarkable photos EVER to appear on that remarkable web site, Atlanta Time Machine. The photo was shot just 63 years ago! Think about that! It's just mind-boggling how this city has changed!

Tenth St. bridge looking south, circa 1950
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Old 01-21-2014, 08:07 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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Just posted! This 1950 photo of a bunch of Coca-cola delivery trucks lined up on the not-yet-opened Downtown Connector, photographed from the 10th Street Bridge in Midtown looking south toward downtown, has to be one of the most remarkable photos EVER to appear on that remarkable web site, Atlanta Time Machine. The photo was shot just 63 years ago! Think about that! It's just mind-boggling how this city has changed!

Tenth St. bridge looking south, circa 1950
Can't recognize any buildings that are in both photos except for those two at Georgia Tech.
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Old 01-21-2014, 08:25 PM
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The buildings on the right are the old O'Keefe High School complex. I believe that Williams Printing is on the left.
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Old 01-21-2014, 08:36 PM
 
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Old 01-21-2014, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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The buildings on the right are the old O'Keefe High School complex. I believe that Williams Printing is on the left.
Was O'Keefe originally called TECH HIGH? I always thought that's what those buildings were from.
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Old 01-21-2014, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Neat. Midtown has definitely changed a lot, but Downtown wasn't all that different... the angle of that photo just hides most of the buildings.

This was about 10 years later:

Aerial postcard photo of downtown looking north

...and this was 20 years earlier:

1933 aerial, sm
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Old 01-22-2014, 12:21 AM
 
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Was O'Keefe originally called TECH HIGH? I always thought that's what those buildings were from.
No, both Tech high and Boys High were where Grady is now. O'Keefe was a separate school.
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Old 01-22-2014, 12:27 AM
 
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That is an awesome photo! However, the Time Machine says the downtown Connector was referred to as the Northeast Expressway. I never heard that -- to the best of my recollection, the Northeast expressway was always I-85.
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Old 01-22-2014, 01:41 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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ON CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE PHOTO:

1. it appears that there are drivers sitting in most of those Coke trucks; not all of them, but most. I only assumed this stretch of the connector had not opened to traffic yet, from the appearance of the construction equipment, and generally muddy appearance of things etc. That's definitely a barricade on the northbound exit ramp. Thoughts?

2. Zooming into the horizon, you can see a hint of downtown. Anybody want to speculate what buildings those might be?

3. Just another "by golly" thought: When this was photographed in 1950, Atlanta had two TV stations: WSB-TV signed on as the south's first television station in 1948, and WAGA-TV went on the air in 1949. "I Love Lucy" would make its premiere a year later, in 1951.

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Old 01-22-2014, 01:42 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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No, both Tech high and Boys High were where Grady is now. O'Keefe was a separate school.
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