Flashback Photos: Memorial Drive memories, 1946-2014

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Flashback Photos: Memorial Drive memories, 1946-2014

Any history of Atlanta is incomplete without a mention of Memorial Drive, if only because the street is home to Oakland Cemetery.

Wreck at Memorial Drive and Central Avenue in June 1948. N02-46_01, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Memorial Drive, DeKalb County in August 1996. (AJC Staff Photo/Eric Williams)

A sign marking the beginning of the Battle of Atlanta on Clay Street at Memorial Drive in Kirkwood in 2010. Bita Honarvar bhonarvar@ajc.com

The grave site of Andrew Johnson who apparently owned Stone Mountain is sandwiched between Memorial Drive and a strip mall. RICH ADDICKS/STAFF

Krystal Restaurant at 3385 Memorial Drive. March 1962. N19-192_c, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

'Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign' George N. Barnard. A view from Leggett's Hill, the site of some of the fiercest fighting on July 22, 1864. Leggett's Hill is where Interstate 20, Moreland Avenue and Memorial Drive now come together.

Memorial Drive traffic consists of cars, trucks and trolleys. Oakland Cemetery is on the right. Parked cars on Memorial Drive force traffic into the middle lane. Trucks line up behind trolleys because they can't pass safely. (Journal Photo) 1949

Memorial Drive and Grant Street. June 1953. LBGPNS7-210b, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Memorial Drive and Grant Street in June 1953. LBGPNS7-210c, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Memorial Drive and Moreland Avenue. February 1952. LBGPNS7-214c, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Memorial Drive and Washington Street in August 1949. LBGPNS7-211a, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Memorial Drive, SE, looking south from Powell Street. March 1956. N05-085_a, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Rich's store at Belvedere Plaza (3479 Memorial Drive, Decatur). N24-139_a, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Standard Oil station, Memorial Drive and Glenwood Avenue. February 1956. LBGPNS7-209b, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Late evening sun sets on Oakland Cemetery after a historic tour of the cemetery lead by volunteers on July 19, 2014. The 48 acre cemetery sits near downtown Atlanta and is bordered by Memorial Drive, Oakland Avenue, Boulevard and the rail line running along Decatur Street. The cemetery (originally six acres) has grown since its opening and host the remains of many of Atlanta's leaders and political figures. (CHRIS HUNT/SPECIAL)

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Wreck at Memorial Drive and Central Avenue in June 1948. N02-46_01, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

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