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This 1966 photo, showing Peachtree Street between 10th and
11th Streets, was taken at
the heart of Atlanta's so-called
"hippie district" (see the 1970 Associated Press article near the bottom of
the page). The strip,
known as the "Tight Squeeze" as far
back as the 1860s, was crowded with a mix
of hippies, rubbernecking tourists eager to check out the "freaks",
motorcycle gangs, avant
garde seekers and counterculture
stores. A few short
years later, a wave of drugs and miscellaneous crime had changed
the feel of the place considerably, as noted in the article below. Lower photo:
01/03/2013. Google
map
Copyright
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, courtesy
of Georgia State University.
File #AJCP338-033h.
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