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  • A confusing pair of street signs showing two of the 71 Peachtree street and road names known in Atlanta. It is often joked that half of the streets in Atlanta are named Peachtree, and the other half have five names to make up for it. While "Peachtree" alone always refers to this street, there are 71 streets in Atlanta with a variant of "Peachtree" in their name.The first Peachtree was a Creek Indian village on the Chattahoochee River called Standing Peachtree. An army outpost built nearby took the name Fort Peachtree. From this has come a forest of Peachtrees. In Margaret Mitchell's epic Civil War romance Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara lives on various points of Peachtree Street along the novel.
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  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America's habit and dependency on car culture.
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  • 1990s evening rush-hour traffic at the junction of the 400 to Buckhead and the 401 highway, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
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  • At a beauty talent contest, the finalists line up to await the judges decision. The girls are dressed in all their finery with dresses, pinned up hair and sashes as they're seated in the gym at the Bedford-King Recreation Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The black community hold annual events here including sports competitions and occasions such this pageant where the girls and also boys prove their talents and potential. One young lady however, sees fit to poke her tongue out at the viewer in a cheeky display of humour and character. Her rivals seem oblivious and unaware of her irreverence but perhaps the judge is watching and her chances of winning are now impossible!
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  • Aerial view of street parade through downtown Atlanta celebrating the city's Braves baseball team's victory in the World Series.
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  • Visitors enter the Coca-Cola corporate museum in the company's Atlanta headquarters.
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  • A driver in his gas-guzzling car and in the background, the skyline of downtown Atlanta.
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  • Two Georgian men play cards while waiting for passing trade during an outdoor yard sale in an Atlanta suburb.
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  • A police officer from the City of Atlanta checks the identity of a suspect on the police car's database during a night shift.
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  • Aerial view of street parade through downtown Atlanta celebrating the city's Braves baseball team's victory in the World Series.
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  • In the run-up to the forthcoming 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, a young black man displays a heritage design for the '52 Helsinki games.
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  • Young women whoop and cheer their favourite baseball team The Atlanta Braves' World Sreies win while out in the car.
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  • Visitors inside the Coca-Cola corporate museum in the company's Atlanta headquarters.
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  • A Phillip Morros ad using the famous Marlboro Man cowboy character on a downtown Atlanta billboard. The Marlboro Man is a figure used in tobacco advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes. In the United States, where the campaign originated, it was used from 1954 to 1999. The Marlboro Man was first conceived by Leo Burnett in 1954. The image involves a rugged cowboy or cowboys, in nature with only a cigarette. The advertisements were originally conceived as a way to popularize filtered cigarettes, which at the time were considered feminine. The Marlboro advertising campaign, created by Leo Burnett Worldwide, is said to be one of the most brilliant advertisement campaigns of all time.
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  • Vertical view of downtown Atlanta with street glowing lights, tall office buildings, blurred traffic and fluttering US flag.
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  • A young winner at a beauty talent contest in the gym at the Bedford-King Recreation Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The black community hold annual events here including sports competitions and occasions such this pageant where the girls and also boys prove their talents and potential.
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  • Cheeky young 1990s Afro-American cheerleader girls practice their routine at the Bedford-King Recreation Center, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A confident 1990s child raises her hand while classmates sit on a classroom rug at the Ashford Park Elementary School, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • During his night patrol, a 1990s Atlanta Police Officer shines his torchlight into the face of a man lying on the ground, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The solitary figure of a man stands on the roof of an office building in downtown Atlanta during a victory parade for the city's baseball team. The man may be a security guard, keeping watch over the streets below as crowds gather to honour the Atlanta Braves Baseball team, after their 1995 World Series win. The figure is in his manmade environment and the high walls and windows of the buildings that make up this metropolis dwarf this tiny human who in the scale and perspective of a modern city looks incongruous, isolated and insignificant.
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  • An officer from the Atlanta Police Department puts his boot on a man's chest who is lying still in the gutter on the street. He and another person have been fighting in the downtown area and the officer has arrived in his patrol car after reports that a street brawl needed his interception. The officer's belt with a gun secured in its holster  can be seen from a low ground level angle. It is a desolate and sinister place and the lights from a passing car and the green fluorescent glow from a parking lot (car park) is in the background. The police officer needs to calm the violent situation, pacifying the two men before the matter gets out of hand and preventing him from causing more trouble, he places his weight on the thorax to pin the male on the ground.
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  • Detail of a Georgia car license plate, in the run-up to the 1996 XXVI Olympic Games in Atlanta, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An African-American Georgia flag protestor holds his placard to a white passer-by before the Atlanta Braves World Series baseball victory parade, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.. James Coleman brought this action to enjoin the flying of the Georgia state flag over Georgia's state office buildings. Coleman, an African-American, alleges that the flying of the Georgia flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag emblem, violates his constitutional rights to equal protection and freedom of expression.
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  • Paramedics assist a bloodied man under the influence of alcohol, picked up by Atlanta police after a street altercation.
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  • In evening city mist, a car park attendant stands guard over his downtown Atlanta parking lot. Next to him is a giant billboard for Marlboro with the classic face of the Marlboro cowboy, depicted drawing on a cigarette and wearing the traditional wide-brimmed stetson. They are low in the frame and the gloomy and eerie mist sits oppressively around the tall buildings, obscuring their top floors. Office lights still burn and a bright street light shines with the intensity of a small solar flare. The Marlboro Man is part of a tobacco advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes. The Marlboro Man was first conceived by the Leo Burnett agency in 1954. The image involves a rugged cowboy or cowboys, in nature with only a cigarette. The ads were originally conceived as a way to popularize filtered cigarettes, which at the time were considered feminine. Actor and author William Thourlby is said to have been the first Marlboro Man. The models who portrayed the Marlboro Man were New York Giants Quarterback Charley Conerly, New York Giants Defensive Back Jim Patton, Darrell Winfield, Dick Hammer, Brad Johnson, Bill Dutra, Dean Myers, Robert Norris, Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Tom Mattox. Two of them, McLaren and McLean, died of lung cancer.
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  • A security guard stands over unattended baggage at Atlanta Hartsfield airport's arrivals hall carousel.
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  • The solitary of a man stands on the roof of an office building in downtown Atlanta during a victory parade for the city's baseball team.
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  • A cheerleader is thrown high into the air during a college football game between the home team Georgia Tech and visiting Clemson, at Georgia Tech University, on 5th May 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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  • A street sign by the NAACP expressing the view that not much has changed in rights and status for black American people. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people.
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  • A young winner is crowned at a talent contest in the gym at the Bedford-King Recreation Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The black community hold annual events here including sports competitions and occasions such this pageant where the girls and also boys prove their talents and potential.
    atlanta_children01-10-11-1995.jpg
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