Connector construction, 1949

It's a little hard to believe, but the Downtown Connector is essentially a colossal ditch dug through the heart of town. Here's a revealing 1949 photo looking westward across a vast construction site where crews are beginning to remove massive amounts of earth before building the expressway itself. The picture was taken from the edge of The Varsity's property and that's the Georgia Tech campus on the other side of all the tumult. Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution, courtesy of Georgia State University. File #AJCP551_31i.