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Flashback Photos: 1979, 40 years ago in Georgia (Part One)
A young football player named Herschel Walker from Johnson County High School was getting a lot of attention. Hurricane David blew through the Georgia coast. And folks took their first rides on MARTA’s system, which opened in June. Let’s take a trip back to 1979.
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Peachtree Street at Peachtree Place in Midtown on August 2, 1979.
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