AJC Flashback Photos: May in Atlanta and Georgia

Flashback photos

AJC Flashback Photos: May in Atlanta and Georgia

Take a look back at some faces, places and events from the AJC Photo Archives.

1970 -- Georgia Governor Lester Maddox gets some help hauling off an Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper stand. (The stand was later returned.) CHARLES BENNETT / AJC FILE

1954 -- A female tiger trainer checks on her cubs after arriving in port at Savannah. KENNETH ROGERS / AJC FILE

1946 -- Original photo caption: “BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A RIDE? Using the thumb instead of the usual token as a means of getting to town (left to right), Melba Moss, teacher; Camille May, librarian, and Betty Bishop, secretary, throw themselves on the Atlanta motorists' mercy to get to work during a transit strike.” JIMMY FITZPATRICK / AJC FILE

1946 -- CLOSE, BUT NO JENGA: A youngster studies a stack of lumber at a Valdosta factory used to produce wooden skis. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1973 -- Concertgoers packed Atlanta Stadium, waiting for Led Zeppelin to perform. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1953 -- Crowds line up outside the Fox Theatre for the Metropolitan Opera. BILL WARREN / AJC FILE

1954 -- A giant Gulliver (from “Gulliver’s Travels”) created for a competition by Emory's Sigma Chi Fraternity. BILL WILSON / AJC FILE

1981 -- Four-year-old Veronica Phillips studies several posters drawn by students for an Atlanta Public Schools contest called “Occupational Survival.” The posters depicted ways children could protect themselves during the late ‘70s-early ‘80s hunt for the Atlanta Child Killer. JOE BENTON / AJC FILE

1908 -- Crowds gather in the aftermath of the Terminal district fire, which left a square block of ruins downtown. It consumed the buildings in the block bounded by Madison Avenue (now Spring Street), Mitchell, Nelson and south Forsyth Streets. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1969 -- Traffic congestion on Atlanta’s Downtown Connector, looking southeast towards the Equitable Building. The sign at right reads “DON’T BE A FREEWAY CREEP.” J.C. LEE / AJC FILE

1945 -- Servicemen in Atlanta celebrate Germany's surrender during World War II. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1968 -- Two girls flee in horror after a natural gas explosion rocked the Hapeville Day Nursery near Atlanta, killing nine persons. CHARLES BENNETT / AJC FILE

1983 -- John Taylor paints light stands at Central City Park downtown (Woodruff Park). RICH ADDICKS / AJC FILE

1987 -- Russ Sission walks around the Candler Park golf course. STEVE DEAL / AJC FILE

1979 -- The Seed & Feed Marching Abominable Band performs in Piedmont Park. CARY CLEAVER / AJC FILE

1971 -- DRAW, PARDNER: Valerie Dennis smiles while watching fast-gun artist Wild Bill Cantrell (left) practice with his son. BILL WILSON / AJC FILE

1977 -- This six-man raft, adorned with an enormous sneaker (athletic shoe) in the middle, was among the watercraft enjoying the Ramblin' Raft Race down the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta. CALVIN CRUCE / AJC FILE

1917 -- Flames jumped from roof to roof across blocks of wood-shingled houses in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood during the Great Atlanta Fire. More than 4,000 Atlantans were homeless before the wind changed and the fire died. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1984 -- Children frolic on the playground of the Economic Opportunity Atlanta Parent-Child Headstart Center. DWIGHT ROSS JR. / AJC FILE

1967 -- The view overlooking the lobby of the then-newly opened Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta. CHARLES BENNETT / AJC FILE

1944 -- Henry Wood and Marvin W. Gibson use a two-man felling saw (crosscut) to cut a large yellow poplar tree. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

Circa 1910s-20s -- Four soldiers on training exercise, wearing gas masks, run through a field with smoke-bombs at Fort Benning. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1938 -- Atlanta firefighters rescue a woman from a burning building while fighting the Terminal Hotel fire. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1961 -- EARLY DAYS OF INTEGRATION: Annie Ruth Dennis and Irma Lee applying for school admission in Atlanta. BILL WILSON / AJC FILE

1967 -- Firefighters appear to climb for the sky on a super-long ladder demonstrated at the 35th annual State Fire School in Atlanta. JOE McTYRE / AJC FILE

1968 -- Circus elephants perform tricks for a crowd. DWIGHT ROSS JR. / AJC FILE

1978 -- Jazz musician Frankie Beverly performs at the Atlanta Jazz Festival. JOE BENTON / AJC FILE

1947 -- Atlanta model airplane builders get ready to test their creations in flight. CAROLYN McKENZIE CARTER / AJC FILE

1981 -- Conductor Robert Shaw rehearses music with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for an upcoming album. DWIGHT ROSS JR. / AJC FILE

1950 -- Atlanta street cars parked in a lot during a strike over permiting requirements. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1947 -- A female industrial worker prepares spools for an asbestos fabric loom in Hogansville. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

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1970 -- Georgia Governor Lester Maddox gets some help hauling off an Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper stand. (The stand was later returned.) CHARLES BENNETT / AJC FILE

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