Downtown Athens, Ga - Breakin' - 4/7/84

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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
  • Highlights from a break-dance session one spring afternoon in Athens, Ga. 1984. Guadalcanal Diary were in town to play the 40 Watt Broad Street. Downtown was always good for hanging out/people watching with the sidewalk in front of Barnett's (books, mags, tobacco, candy) a good vantage point. The two kids in red are interesting (near the end) and the red beret/playboy bunny shirt guy has some good bug moves. Downtown was casual, not too crowded, not yet filthy with bars and student apartments. Culture wasn't as self-aware; "rhoided" by reality tv and social media. When the cops respond to complaints of the crowd blocking the storefronts, everyone is calm and mellow. An afternoon's idyll dissipates until the next time.

Комментарии • 35

  • @JohnnyBallgame88
    @JohnnyBallgame88 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow! My hometown

  • @aacallison1535
    @aacallison1535 Месяц назад

    Born in Athens GA, moved away, then back in March 1984.
    Part of that townie vibe

  • @Ruffbone85
    @Ruffbone85 2 месяца назад

    That backwards worm was funny asf 😂

  • @tonyacox6782
    @tonyacox6782 6 лет назад +12

    That was awesome seeing Bruce and Velt do their thing back in the day!

  • @ClassicCityMinistry
    @ClassicCityMinistry 5 лет назад +7

    I i was born and raised in athens, in the mid 80s..1986 to be exact...and its awesome to see this was going on in my town!..and to see the arhens pd before they were unified in 91 wow!...amazing footage!...to the kids that went to clarke central and played baseball for M pepsi my mom was the coach mom mrs j and billy ray jordan!!!...maybe somebody that sees this will know who they were

  • @donaldjoy4023
    @donaldjoy4023 6 лет назад +4

    Amazing capture of the times....

  • @tearsforthedying
    @tearsforthedying 3 года назад +2

    I remember seeing kids dance here in the early 80s! So cool someone got this on video!!

  • @whwh7339
    @whwh7339 6 лет назад +12

    wish i could just disappear into this video and walk up the road and out of the 2010s.

  • @shelithareaves9929
    @shelithareaves9929 4 года назад +2

    Seeing my boy Velt do his thing made my entire day! RIP

    • @elacomedido
      @elacomedido Год назад

      I'm sorry to hear he passed away. Who was bboy Velt?

  • @mysterpb
    @mysterpb 4 года назад +7

    I think I am the guy leaning on the car when the cops show up

  • @paulnation7377
    @paulnation7377 3 года назад +3

    I thought the cop was gonna start breakin.

  • @mr.k.w.3509
    @mr.k.w.3509 6 лет назад +3

    My favorite town I grew up in! (True Light)

  • @kianak1399
    @kianak1399 Год назад +1

    Tim and Walt doing their thing!!Classic#B-BoyStyle🤼#Breakin#BackInDaDay84'🤼

  • @ericwhite5558
    @ericwhite5558 6 лет назад +13

    Amazing footage... This really captures the 80's in Athens. Kudos goes out to whoever filmed this.

  • @aidanbrown676
    @aidanbrown676 5 лет назад +3

    Earl Sweatshirt hitting the moon walk?

  • @MrScoop156
    @MrScoop156 3 месяца назад

    Pipeman Holeman!

  • @CWilliams21
    @CWilliams21 8 лет назад +3

    Wow, thanks!

  • @paleo75
    @paleo75 6 лет назад +2

    Jeez! I remember this😎

  • @YURAKAPTIV
    @YURAKAPTIV 4 года назад +4

    now go down and see a bunch of people standing in line for a Chik-Fil-A.....it's just as good....right?

  • @timothymcinvale1174
    @timothymcinvale1174 4 года назад +4

    See how they brought the Biggest black cop they had to go tell the black people they had to leave hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha that's too funny

    • @emoney123
      @emoney123 4 года назад +1

      Exactly!! aint to much change from then to now💯

    • @Repunza
      @Repunza 4 года назад

      That just the way it was back then. It was much better too.

    • @burnelleelam5812
      @burnelleelam5812 Год назад

      That BLACK COP WAS (SGT. Holeman) Pipeman!!!! A good guy!!!!

  • @javiercacao7475
    @javiercacao7475 5 лет назад

    How is that spot now in 2019?

    • @mikecook76
      @mikecook76 5 лет назад

      It's a Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Shop 😒

    • @tearsforthedying
      @tearsforthedying 4 года назад +2

      Gentrified

    • @jimclinard
      @jimclinard 4 года назад +5

      @@tearsforthedying Athens is unrecognizable to me these days

    • @tearsforthedying
      @tearsforthedying 4 года назад +2

      @@jimclinard its changed so much from the 90s for sure

    • @jeffgregory5524
      @jeffgregory5524 4 года назад +1

      the same people who stand in line for chik fa la now probably listen to nothing but hip hop but 36 years ago all those people crowded around were interested in this new movement