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Country music star Bill Anderson
poses for a photo on the Jackson Street bridge, just east of
downtown Atlanta, a site that has long been popular with
photographers seeking to capture impressive shots of the city's
skyline. Anderson was born in Columbia, South Carolina but
moved to Decatur when he was 9 or 10 years old. He
attended Avondale High School, graduating in 1955. One of
his high school bands, the Avondale Playboys, had a live radio
show every Saturday morning on WBGE,
which broadcast from the basement of the Georgian Terrace
Hotel. As a nineteen year-old college student at the
University of Georgia, Anderson jump-started his career in
country music by penning City Lights, which Ray Price,
who gets my enthusiastic vote for the greatest country singer ever,
recorded and turned into a #1 hit on the Country charts.
This photo was taken in 1969, when Anderson was near the peak of
his commercial success. Top photo courtesy of the Atlanta
History Center. Bottom photo: November,
2013. Google
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