My mother-in-law is a very good friend of Irene Dodd, daughter of the famous Georgia artist Lamar Dodd (the UGA school of art is named after him). She was about 6 years old when this was filmed. Yesterday Irene viewed this film for the first time and saw her father. Lamar Dodd appears between about 2:31 and 2:35 in the film, with the best side head view at 2:33. He has silver hair and wire-rim glasses, smiling, no hat, and fairly thin in stature.

@josecarrillo8569

Жыл бұрын

Nobody asked

It's crazy that so many people in this video were born in the 1800s.

@Karidagr8

Ай бұрын

Born in 1899

This is AMAZING - thank you for posting!

This is wonderful. Thanks. I'm sure people would love time stamps indicating landmarks if possible. Thanks again.

This would be about the time my dad enrolled via the GI bill. Went on to Emory for law school. Twenty-five years after I graduate UGA he's passed and I find his old history book with his dorm address in it, "Old Federal Dormitory" . It was the same building in which I took spanish (New College) on North Campus in early 1980's. It was pretty strange to think I was sitting in my dad's repurposed dorm taking classes and never knew it. He told me lots of funny stories about the post WWII college life. The poor 18 year old freshmen had to man up pretty quick- he said a few of them learned some hard lessons trying to smart off to combat veterans. lol

Just look at all that parking!

this is incredible, thank you

Wool suits, Georgia summers (or basically most days between February and November) and no AC do not go together. Men used to suffer for fashion.

Very cool video. 👍

This is postively magical. If I was to be transported I would be walking around in a daze, gobsmacked. What happened to our culture that we lost that class?

Most influential/important Rock band ever came out Athens

Funny how when everybody wore suits it lessened the impact of wearing a suit

How men used to carry themselves.

35:45 is that Sanford stadium in the background? Interesting that everything goes black and white when they get to the government housing....Pretty progressive film for that time period definitely making a statement about the division within the town. I watch this about every six months...fun to identify parts of my old stomping ground ~ thank you!

Not much has changed in Athens, GA.

@stefanie706

3 жыл бұрын

@Adrian G 😆! Blockt! #voteBlue

@pac-vy1nj

3 жыл бұрын

@@stefanie706 why would you vote blue? The Democrats opposed freeing the slaves. Also biden is on record several times saying he does not want integration.

@stefanie706

3 жыл бұрын

@@pac-vy1nj source?

@tyecurtis7228

2 жыл бұрын

Bigger and worse.

@areguapiri

2 жыл бұрын

@@pac-vy1nj You do know that the party system was reverse at that time. The democrats were the southern slaveowners and white supremacists, while the republicans were the northern party for Lincoln and people who wanted to end the evil slavery. True history that you must learn.

Must have been a law requiring everybody to smoke in public

boy, they effed it up now...

@tyecurtis7228

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. Growth out of control.

@hairyhairyme

29 күн бұрын

Now look it's even worse now 😢

Beautiful Athens

At 3:28, it looks like those men are entering where The Grill is located now. Does anybody know what was in that location in 1946?

@jbshu958

2 жыл бұрын

At 8:00, there is a shot of College Avenue going towards the Arch. On the right side there is a sign that reads N&N Cafeteria. You can also see the front of that building at 7:28. There is an old Athens phone directory from the 1940s that shows N&N Cafeteria’s address as 171 College Ave. That is The Grill’s address today.

@overallgreatidea6433

Жыл бұрын

@@jbshu958 Early 1980's Grill was unforgettable. For those of us who liked to wash before eating, you had to go upstairs to the restroom. Turning off the top landing you could see in a room two or three people, usually appeared to be student-aged, peeling potatoes for those incomparable french fries

@overallgreatidea6433

Жыл бұрын

@@jbshu958 Apparently there was a half-block of green space north of Broad St? I seem to recall hearing somewhere that College Ave didn't always go to Broad, now I see that was the case.

Mayor Bob McWhorter in the early part of the video.

@overallgreatidea6433

Жыл бұрын

Two McWhorters were in the GA legislature in the early 1960's (?) . One told his brother he was sending a bill through and to make sure it passed. His brother said "I'll do what I can"; the other one said "if that is all you will promise just forget it" lol

Yes. Athens is my hometown and this video rules!

@reverendfleshhammer

Жыл бұрын

MINE AS WELL. I CONCUR.

Got my spine I got my Orange Cruuuush

Looks like a mini Atlanta Ga. And growing! Not such a good thing! Growing pains in 2021. One huge UGA town. Not for retired people.

audio??

@BrownMediaArchiveUGA

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, this was shot with a silent film camera and has no sound.

@susanhawk489

3 жыл бұрын

It would be nice if there were a voiceover telling us what we're seeing.

Barefoot kids playing ball. I love it.

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em! 😄

Back when they had different cafes and drinking fountains for different people. The south back then didn’t just discriminate against non white people. They discriminated against anyone who wasn’t in their particular local community of white people. So if you were white and “you ain’t from round here are ya bowa” then you were kind of discriminated against as well. Certain communities in the south are still like that today.

So this is what segregation in Athens was like

@overallgreatidea6433

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you have to go to a black church or black civic club to see it now. lol

Xc

Lots of well-dressed cancer patients.