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Flashback Photos: Atlanta from above, December 1965
Take a flight over Atlanta, as it was 50 years ago this month. On December 21, 1965, AJC photographer Floyd Jillson was sent to take photos of our city from the air. There are shots of downtown, Lenox Square, Greenbriar Mall (then Greenbriar Center), North DeKalb Mall and the Cobb County Shopping Center (later Cobb Center and now home to the International Academy of Smyrna).
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Aerial view of a an unidentified shopping mall and its surrounding parking lot, Atlanta, Georgia, December 21, 1965. Negative envelope: "Atlanta Parking Lots and Shopping Centers. 12-21-65. F. Jillson." All photos by Floyd Jillson/AJC.
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