PHOTOS: Pink Pig holiday ride through the years

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PHOTOS: Pink Pig holiday ride through the years

Generations of Georgians have ridden The Pink Pig, a holiday tradition that started at Rich's department store in 1953.

The Pink Pig's monorail cars Priscilla and Percival on the roof of Rich's department store, December 1979

Pink Pig monorail at Rich's department store in December 1987. AJC file

The Pink Pig, hosting a church group in this 2005 shot, delighted children from 1953 until 2019.

The Pink Pig monorail at Rich's in downtown Atlanta was bright and pretty in 1990.

The ride was brought inside at Lenox Square Rich's-Macy's in October 2003 to drive up holiday sales.

Leonardo Santorelli rides the Macy's Pink Pig at Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead on Nov. 2, 2013.

Emmett Holbert (left) sits next to his father Ryan as they ride the Macy's Pink Pig at Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead on Nov. 2, 2013.

Olivia Dodd (center), Lane Moore (left) and his mother Louise ride the Macy's Pink Pig at Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead on Nov. 2, 2013.

In this 1996 photo, Danny Phelps prepares to move Rich's Pink Pig into the Atlanta History Center. Now a fixture at Macy's at Lenox Square from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve, the Pink Pig continues to delight Atlanta's children (and their parents) as it has since it originally made its appearance on the rooftop of the old Rich's downtown store in 1953.

Guests ride the Priscilla the Pink Pig at Macy's Lenox Square. The Pink Pig ride, originally a monorail on the former Rich's downtown rooftop, became so popular in its heyday that a second Pig, Percival, joined Priscilla to meet Atlantans' demands.

The Pink Pig, travels through a series of mirrors towards the end of its circuit in 2010 at Lenox Square mall. Se public on Saturday and will be open through January 2.

The original Rich's Pink Pig, a monorail, sits on display behind the loading area of Macy's Pink Pig, a train, Saturday in a tent outside of Lenox Mall.

The Pink Pig ride on the roof of Rich's department store in Atlanta on Monday, December 9, 1990. (AJC file photo)

A pink train full of people makes it’s way around the track beneath a 170-foot, 1950s-themed Macy’s Pink Pig tent in this file photo. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC

Pink Pig monorail at Rich's department store in December 1987. AJC file

Erika Washington and her daughter Gabrielle-Simone, 8, ride Macy's Pink Pig at Lenox Square Mall Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Gabrielle-Simone will be one of two Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Service patients at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta who will light Macy's Great Tree on Thanksgiving day.

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Generations of Georgians have ridden The Pink Pig, a holiday tradition that started at Rich's department store in 1953.

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