Athens, Georgia Then and Now: Time Traveling from 1908 to 2023
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Looking at how places and building have changed over time is one of my favorite part of collecting old postcards. In this video, I compare old postcards and photos of Athens, Georgia to how things look today.
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I live in Athens and I remember the free hot dog ad. I'd laugh at that every time I'd see that ad.
I visited family by arriving from D.C. to Athens at that very train station in the 1960s. My introduction to Jim Crow, as I entered the “Colored” side of the station.
Thank you for your comment and the perspective it adds to the images I shared in the video. I think it’s important to learn the “bad” part of history that many white Americans don’t like talking about. Unfortunately racism is still widespread in the south today in large part because students are uneducated about the real history of our country and the south in particular. In my small town Georgia high school, I was taught that the Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery, and that racism was solved for good in the 1960s. Fortunately I was able to learn better at home, but most kids were not so lucky!
That was so awesome to see the same view through the years!
Really cool Then and Now! Thanks Daniel
What a fun video to watch. Great idea, thank you!
really good video!
I have been living in Athens for 22 years, is really cool to see those old pictures .
The images for Clayton street at Lumpkin…
It is my understanding that not the white building in these images but the “Holman hotel” which is in the closet right hand corner of each of these photos was and still is the tallest building in downtown Athens.
You are right! I should have said the Southern Mutual building was the tallest in Athens for a SHORT time. It was finished in 1908 and the Holman Hotel building was completed in 1914, and has been the tallest building downtown since.
Isn’t the last house shown currently the Alpha Delta Pi Sorority House? It probably was even back then.
6:50 it’s called a spire :)
Awesome.
Thanks
Cool vid!
I grew up in the area and remember shopping downtown in the 1970s with my parents. Would love to see pictures of the 70s . Not sure how to find any. Library archives?
Yeah that may be your best bet, you can reach out to the archival library at UGA to see what material they have available.
@@mailseum Thank you. I work on campus.
I wonder if that last picture with women on the porch and sitting at the windows was a sorority.
I tried digging some more just now and the house was bought in 1894 by one of the founders of the Athens Electric Railroad Company. The women may have been his daughters if he still owned the house at this time.
This photo was taken when UGA was an only male school. Mary Creswell would be the first woman to graduate from UGA in 1919.
Curious about used vs unused which are more valuable. I think it would be used because of the story attached to the card comment. 32:59
Some collectors prefer unused, some prefer used. I prefer used because of the writing, postmarks, and history, but I’ve found there isn’t much difference in price.