View over Atlantic Steel, 1971 / via peachtreekeen
Atlanta (by CTEcreative)
The only buildings I can make out are the Hurt (1913) and Candler (1906) buildings in the first photo.
It appears that Candler is in the 2nd, but I don’t see Hurt. It should be behind and to the left of Candler in the 2nd photo. So, this picture is from some time between 1906 and 1913 or so.
If someone out there wants to clarify, correct, etc. any of these old pictures, feel free to do so.
They appear to be announcing/beginning construction on a new building. I wish I had taken a closer picture of the photo being shown.
I did take a closer picture of the building behind the gathering. “The Southern _______al(?) College.” I wish I could have pulled them off the wall and out of the frames and seen if there was any other information on them.
Date unknown. All I can make out is the name on the long building. “Johnson - Fluker & Co. Wholesale Grocers”
The only information I could quickly find on Google showed that they existed in Atlanta in the early 1920’s, one being a court case about whether they delivered a shipment or not.
An aerial shot of Atlanta. Date unknown to me. The only text I can find is in the lower right. “Edgar Orr / Atlanta”
Here’s a photo of the artesian well mentioned in this blog post. Examining my photo, I see 1883, not 1892 in the bottom left of the image. This is now 5 Points where Edgewood, Peachtree, and Marietta/Decatur intersect near Woodruff Park.
The 2nd photo shows the intersection today and the sculpture that stands where the well once stood.
The other day I was working in an office in Atlantic Station that had a nice collection of old photos of Atlanta throughout the hallways. The best I could do was snap a few photos of the photos with my phone.
Here’s a shot that shows Atlanta evolving through the years. ‘60, ‘70 and ‘76 (bottom to top).
