Atlanta and Georgia in 1993: Photos from 25 years ago

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Flashback photos: 25 years ago, Georgia and Atlanta in 1993

The Georgia Dome was brand new, and so was Georgia 400. What you now know as Ponce City Market was City Hall East (having previously been a vacant Sears building). The Big Chicken was damaged and had to be repaired. It snowed and snowed and snowed one day in early March, paralyzing the city. Lucky for Atlanta, it hit here on a Saturday. Let’s take a look back 25 years to an earlier Georgia.

Pedestrian bridges and a pond dotted with golden frogs at the Rio Shopping Center, looking west toward Midtown on September 12, 1993. According to the story at the time, business was picking up there. It wouldn't last, though. The state-of-the-art center (check out the fancy video wall), which opened in 1988 at the corner of Piedmont and North aveneues, was torn down in 2000.

Sledders enjoying the snow in Piedmont Park during the 1993 blizzard in Atlanta in March 1993.

Road race on Georgia 400, before it opens to auto traffic, Atlanta, Georgia, June 19, 1993. This is about the half way point, just past the toll plaza during the one-time four-mile run.

Jerry Kessler in front of his store, Kessler's, on Broad Street, August 26, 1993

A view of traffic backed up on Peacthree Street in Buckhead, July 25, 1993. This is a view from the west side of Peachtree looking southeast. Cars headed north on Peachtree are backed up waiting for the light at Pharr Road to change.

This photo accompanied a story on parking woes in Buckhead. This is a view of Bolling Way on May 27, 1993.

As the original caption noted, in July 1993, "Atlanta's night owl population enjoys such places as the Majestic restaurant on Ponce de Leon Avenue for an after-midnight breakfast."

The original caption on this photo from Jan. 1993 reads: "Biker baby: Scooter Morgan, 2, hangs out in front of the Euclid Yacht Club in Little Five Points."

Reflections of Little Five Points shoppers in a bike mirror, January 14, 1993.

The railroad overpass on Ponce de Leon Avenue, August 30, 1993, with the old Sears building/City Hall East in the background. It's now the Beltline and Ponce City Market.

A pedestrian walks down Alabama Street at Underground Atlanta, January 26, 1993.

Alison Mayer, left, and Dr. Jerry Lynn eat at Thelma's, a downtown landmark, on November 19, 1993.

Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and Nelson Mandela talking together, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 1993.

Workers install sign at the new City Hall East on July 9, 1993.

Aurora Coffee in near the intersection of Virginia and Highland avenues in March 1993.

An aerial view of Buckhead in July 1993.

Kristin Pettit rides a mechanical bull at Mama's Country Showcase on Covington Highway in Belvedere Park on January 9, 1993.

Cartersville's Main Street with the renovated Grand Theatre in February 1993.

Colby Pomenter and Mike Bannister pulverize asphalt to prepare the Olympic Stadium construction site, July 30, 1993

Dale Murphy (right) and Ernie Johnson Sr. in SportsSouth broadcast booth on June 30, 1993, as the Atlanta Braves play the Colorado Rockies.

The population sign in from of the Darlington on Peachtree St. on September 27, 1993.

Atlanta Braves announcers Don Sutton (left) and Skip Caray in September 1993.

Future UGA star, Super Bowl MVP qnd "Dancing With the Stars" winner Hines Ward in his days as a Forest Park high School quarterback. He's seen here with his mother on October 27, 1993.

The Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones on Sept. 19, 1993, one week after making his MLB debut. He was 21 years old.

Nelson Mandela is greeted by eight-year-old Alexandra Jackson and her father, Mayor Maynard Jackson, at Fulton County's Charlie Brown Field on July 11, 1993.

Otis Nixon scores in the 6th inning for the Atlanta braves in a game against the Pirates on July 15, 1993. The Braves won 4-0.

Paul McCartney gives an autographerd 'Beatles Diary Card' to 10-year old Bill Keller as his dad, Georgai State Patrol trooper Van Keller, looks on just before McCartney's May 1, 1993, concert at the Georgia Dome.

Prince performing with his band at the Fox Theatre during the first of his two sold-out concerts in Atlanta on March 12, 1993.

Prince performing with his band at the Fox during the first of his two sold-out concerts in Atlanta on March 12, 1993.

Aerial view of Atlanta as it was on November 18, 1993.

Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz on April 12, 1993.

An aerial view of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium on October 17, 1993. It would be demolished four years later.

Theatre in the Square in Marietta on July 29, 1993.

Audience members doing the Time Warp during a screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in November 1993 at the Northlake 8 AMC Theaters.

Storefronts along North Highland Avenue in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood in December 1993.

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Pedestrian bridges and a pond dotted with golden frogs at the Rio Shopping Center, looking west toward Midtown on September 12, 1993. According to the story at the time, business was picking up there. It wouldn't last, though. The state-of-the-art center (check out the fancy video wall), which opened in 1988 at the corner of Piedmont and North aveneues, was torn down in 2000.

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