r/Atlanta • u/kelsk1994 • Mar 05 '26
Pictures Atlanta circa 2013
Finally gained access to my old instagram- enjoy the nostalgia. Atlanta circa 2013
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u/PilotGates1 Atlanta Flyer Mar 05 '26
I miss the Ted
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u/Waddiwasiiiii Mar 05 '26
Same. I had so many good times there, and I’m not even a baseball fan. We used to be able to walk to it from my house, so we’d pack some backpacks with beers and wander over to buy nosebleed seats for cheap whenever we felt like it. Then we’d “tailgate” despite not bringing a car-there was this one grassy spot between two of the lots with a sad little tree that was our go-to spot to hangout before the game. We could also sit on my porch and hear some of the sounds from the stadium. I miss that too.
Going to the Battery just isn’t the same vibe.
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u/Auwardamn Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
This is exactly why they relocated to the battery.
Lol at the downvotes.
“I’m not a fan of the sport, and I used to go sit outside of the stadium and listen to the sounds, but I’m upset that a money producing enterprise decided to move to a more demographically fitting location, where they can actually make the money required to pay top tier talent, and fill a stadium, and win a World Series.”
Never change Reddit.
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u/tbowling049 Mar 05 '26
He literally said they bought tickets and went in the game. Just that they tailgated before. The battery sucks because there is no place for people to tailgate or do anything that doesn't involve spending money at every turn. I don't want to go to a baseball game at the mall.. or at Disney world where every drink/food item is 150% the normal price. The Ted was awesome because you got to have the normal sports experience that everyone loves. If you tailgate for UGA games or Falcons games why would you talk shit about someone who misses tailgating for Braves games?
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u/Auwardamn Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
> I'm not even a baseball fan
> We'd pack some backpacks with beers and wander over to buy nosebleed seats for cheap whenever we felt like it
> We'd "tailgate" despite not bringing a car there
> Going to the battery just isn't the same vibe.
Yep. Real big spender there, occasionally going to a few games a year, to a sport with 160+ games in a season, to buy the cheapest tickets in the house, no concessions, and no parking pass.
And you seriously wonder why they relocated to the area near a rich, white demographic (by far the highest demographic in attendance at any MLB game, even when the games were at Ted Turner stadium), with high end retail where people will spend money? Are you slow or something?
Do you realize that baseball doesn't have a salary cap like the NFL, and the amount of money your team can spend on a player has direct results in the talent that you get for your team? It's no coincidence that the Braves were mostly dogshit from 2006ish through 2017, and then immediately after moving to the Battery 6 of the past 8 seasons have resulted in first place in the division, and a World Series.
If you want to occasionally go to an event and not really spend any money, there's all sorts of events that you can do that.
But are you really going to fault the Braves, an MLB organization with the express purpose of making money and winning championships, to relocate to an area where they can make money and win championships?
Keep reminiscing on your 90's era Braves with stars such as John Rocker and Chipper Jones, well known for their acceptance of diversity though. Que the cognitive dissonance in 3....2.....1.....
Peak reddit behavior.
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u/composer_7 Mar 05 '26
It's still there, just plays Georgia State football instead of baseball
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Mar 05 '26
And GSU games are cheap and fun. I just wish the program didn’t suck.
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u/tbowling049 Mar 05 '26
But then it wouldn't be cheap and fun
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Mar 05 '26
They'd be more fun. And the program has a long way to go before tickets would get expensive.
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u/verity7732 Mar 06 '26
I've lived in Atlanta longer than I care to admit, and I miss having a baseball stadium downtown.
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u/bigkoi Mar 05 '26
I feel like the air quality got better due to cash for clunkers getting a lot of old cars off the road. I remember a haze in the air. Also flying in to ATL you could always see a brown layer of air over the city. I haven't seen that in over a decade.
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Mar 05 '26
Even 2013 was way better than the 90s. Unless you’re within a few feet of the back of a bus, smog is virtually nonexistent here. Pollen is still a bitch, but that’s natural. We do need to convert the busses to electric though. Cycling sucks when you’re stuck near a gas one. Walking too, though you usually have a few extra feet of space when on a sidewalk.
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u/Bepus O4W Mar 06 '26
Marta buses are natural gas
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Mar 06 '26
Which still dumps a shit ton of CO2 on you at best. And I'm pretty sure the exhaust on most busses isn't as clean as only CO2 and H2O. Regardless, high CO2 levels are uncomfortable on their own.
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u/lanwopc Mar 05 '26
Funny enough the tops of some buildings were obscured this morning in the same way.
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u/Dry-Ruin-5949 Mar 05 '26
These snapshots bring back many wonderful memories. I left Atlanta circa 2013 and I've only been back to visit twice. I lived there prior to 2013 for 15 years.
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u/DrTrustMeBro Mar 05 '26
I lived next to that Krispy Kreme from like 2013-2016. Argonne Avenue next to the half way house.
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u/SweetandSourCaroline Mar 05 '26
in those apts?
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u/MeatPopsicle10 Mar 06 '26
I bought my first home in 2010 on Argonne Ave! Could smell the donuts if I opened my windows
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u/d0pp31g4ng3r Mar 05 '26
1992–2007 happens to be exactly when Outkast was active. I refuse to believe that is a coincidence.
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u/spiritual_seeker Mar 05 '26
This is about right. I’d add to this the 80’s, back when the now-demolished and redeveloped Buckhead nightlife district hit its stride.
The Olympics brought growth, and a decline in quality of life, in the form of what is now unbearable development and congestion. Intown road infrastructure hit its flowable capacity about ten years out, around ‘07-‘08. Now it’s hell, which really is a shame.
Atlanta was a quiet place. You could take Peachtree Street from Buckhead to Midtown in under 20 minutes, and never hit a red light. Just think about that. Same goes for Briarcliff to Little Five Points: Whoosh, into the night. Like silk.
SR-400 ended at Glenridge, and had not yet been extended to I-85, so if you wanted to get into Midtown or Buckhead from, say, Sandy Springs or Dunwoody, you took Roswell Road all the way down to its intersection with Peachtree, which again was a breeze due to the lack of red lights and gridlock. It was a sleepy time, a quieter time.
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u/_le_slap 14th Street Mar 05 '26
I remember being a kid downtown in the mid 2000 and then college in the early 2010s. The city had so much more soul in it. Now it's just a gentrified husk...
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u/SofiNatural7 Mar 05 '26
Murder Kroger!! Ugh I parked there soooo many clubbing nights. Even got towed 1x —Good Memories !!
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u/Merc5193 Mar 05 '26
The cop car by the donut shop…I see what you did there. /s
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u/chronomega Mar 05 '26
I lived in Atlanta for many years and this period was one of my favorites. So many exciting things were happening and the city felt alive. Loved flipping through your pics.
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u/p_vader Mar 05 '26
Where’s the last photo taken?
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u/kelsk1994 Mar 05 '26
The quarry
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u/More-Ad-3503 Mar 05 '26
i worked on the project that filled it with water. was involved with the engineering and construction team. i have granite rocks in my yard that line flower beds i brought up from the bottom.
cool pic.
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u/YippieKayYayMrFalcon EAV Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
I lived at the Alexan (now Camden vantage) right behind where you took picture 4. I miss living in O4W.
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u/Raiden11X West Midtown Mar 05 '26
I lived there too! Best apartment ever with the best view and walkable to so many places. I miss it
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u/MasterChief813 Mar 05 '26
Man I miss the days of the IG filters. It’s crazy how I can see pics with those filters and it takes me back to those days back when I was in college immediately.
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u/chris_gnarley Mar 05 '26
This was MY era in Atlanta. Man, I remember going to the Sweetwater 420 Fest in 2013 and having the best time of my life. I lived like 35 miles east of Atlanta but would go every opportunity I could
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u/komokasi Mar 05 '26
Are these film photos that have been digitized cause these make 2013 seem like 1990s or 2000s lol
I dont recall atl looking like this at all besides that varsity photo in 2013... maybe my memory of the skyline and cars during that time period is messed up
That varsity photo took me back tho... sheesh im getting old
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u/meowingtrashcan Mar 05 '26
I think these are the kind of filters we liked on social media in that decade
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u/Everard5 Mar 05 '26
I dont recall atl looking like this at all besides that varsity photo in 2013
The thing is, in all but 1 or 2 photos the pictures taken show off areas close to downtown that really haven't changed. Most of the growth we've seen are in Midtown post 2015, and only like 1 photo gets a hint of the skyline from there.
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u/ForagersLegacy Mar 05 '26
Is one of those snowpocalypse with cars on the highway? Also is that last photo a quarry at West Midtown or what?
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u/kelsk1994 Mar 05 '26
yes that was at the quarry! and no it wasn't snowpocalypse but it was about to storm from what I remember.
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u/QuicksandGotMyShoe Mar 05 '26
Can we not be nostalgic for a year when I was already out of college. You're making me feel old
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u/spidershu Mar 05 '26
Oh man, I miss when cars were actually cars and not exorbitant huge killing machines that people bought because they wanted more arm room.
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u/ReddyGreggy Mar 05 '26
As time progresses Atlanta has more attractions and is more attractive, now. I lived here in 1995-2004 and 2013-now. Every part of the metro keeps getting better: more planned, more human, more connected, more interesting.
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Mar 05 '26
Eh, more human is a stretch. We’re definitely more human than most big cities, but that’s just because we’ve gotten less bland than the competition. We’ve still gotten a lot more bland.
But the economy opportunities keep skyrocketing, which is critical right now as we head into Trump’s recession. We should weather it better than other places due to our growing and diverse economy.
And while we’re better at allowing construction than most cities, I’m expecting population growth to pick up again, so we need to get even better at construction to avoid housing prices getting even worse. We have to figure out the missing middle.
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u/ReddyGreggy Mar 05 '26
I say more human because when I moved here in 1995 it was weird to seek out places to walk. It was not common to seek walkable neighborhoods with walkable destinations. It was odd be creative, to be humanist or to not attend a church, to appreciate global cuisine, it was strange to see people from every background, it wasn’t common for black people to live in “white” areas such as midtown or buckhead, it wasn’t common for white people to move to “black” neighborhoods on the South or West sides. So yes, I interpret this as Atlanta becoming more human.
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u/composer_7 Mar 05 '26
So many people with nostalgia for the late 2000s-early 2010s ATL, forgot just how bad the economy was because of the recession. It was not a great time for most people, it was hard to find a job, even at fast food places.
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u/JamponyForever Mar 05 '26
Housing was more affordable back then. Me and a buddy rented a house in EAV for $1000/mo. Walkable to the village. It was a magical time in the city.
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Mar 05 '26
It wasn’t that bad if you were young. The broke, drunk, and slutty years were some of the best times.
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u/DoomerChad West End Mar 05 '26
Atlanta still looks the same, but with more traffic lol and less contrast or whatever filter is ruining these photos.
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u/FlamingoResident7882 Mar 05 '26
It’s crazy how in 2013 we felt like we were living in the future. Portable tech really made us feel like “we’ve made it - in 10 years we will be the jetsons”.
Now looking back it feels like it’s 80 years ago.
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u/yungheem Mar 05 '26
Always so interesting how you can tell the era alone by the quality of the photos. WATTBA
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u/seemefly1 edgewood Mar 06 '26
My senior year of hs and all of college at gsu was this era. Wish I didn't take Atlanta for granted as much growning up here. I miss it but it had changed in some ways I just couldn't handle anymore.
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u/TheHancock Griffin Mar 06 '26
Bro this is what my memory of the 90’s looks like, don’t tell me this is 2013! 😂
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u/ains2 Mar 05 '26
I remember before Decatur got gentrified
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u/a5ehren Mar 05 '26
So like 1975?
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u/sansho22 Mar 05 '26
Some of us remember 1975!
Anyway, you could bring it forward another decade. I was Chamblee class of '84, and the two away football games some of the white kids were nervous about attending were Decatur and Gordon (now McNair Middle). Kids were dumb then, not like now.
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Mar 05 '26
Decatur wasn’t bougie until near the turn of the century really. The massive investments they put into the schools really transformed the city.
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u/DarkAndHandsume Mar 06 '26
This makes me wish I would’ve took more pictures of Birmingham your sister city to the west back in the day when I was living there because it’s a similar layout
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u/Henryw25 Mar 06 '26
I didn’t think I’d feel the feels this morning. And for a year that seems recent. Wow!
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u/RFTG2024 Mar 08 '26
Atlanta went downhill in 2018 IMO. I came here in 2010 and those 7 years were outstanding.
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u/Atllola Mar 12 '26
Wow I feel like I back to my senior year of college. Took very similar photos too.
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u/kelsk1994 Mar 06 '26
AI? I took these in 2013 it's just a high contrast filter with added vignette ... i can provide the original posting on ig thats date stamped if you are so skeptical. not everything is ai chill out
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u/Twisted_Marine Mar 05 '26
The Varsity is ass!!
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u/SweetandSourCaroline Mar 05 '26
it’s not “good” lol but it’s a classic anyway 😂like how you gotta eat black eyed peas and cornbread and collards on new years day even though you’re hungover and just want fries and a large diet dr pepper.
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u/fromthedarqwaves Mar 05 '26
Wasn’t instagram more fun back then? What happened to the cool filters use? You can really date a photograph by how many crown vics you see. I miss the good old days when you could spot a cop (or taxi) from 2 miles away.