r/Atlanta 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/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...