Flashback photos: 25 years ago, 1995 in Georgia

Flashback photos

The Centennial Olympic Games were right around the corner, so demolition and construction were everywhere you looked in 1995. But it was also the year that the Braves won the World Series, Music Midtown was in its third year, David Bowie came through town and hometown superstar RuPaul returned for a book-signing event at Oxford Books. Take a trip back 25 years in photos of Atlanta and Georgia in 1995.

Forsyth Street ends just south of the CSX railroad tracks as Georgia DOT workers are constructing a new bridge that will connect it to Marietta Street Inthe background is the Five Points MARTA rail station

David Bowie performs at Lakewood Amphitheatre on Oct. 9, 1995.

David Justice celebrates winning World Series Game Six, Oct. 28, 1995.

Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox holding the World Series trophy with Ted Turner and team presidents after World Series Game Six, Oct. 28, 1995.

With the Games on his mind, what better backdrop for high-jumper Tom McCants than the Olympic city's Midtown skyline? The three-year Atlanta resident was doing his twice-a-week 'hill work' in November 1995 in Piedmont Park.

Frame 36A camerman Dave Hinshaw captures desserts at Thelma’s Kitchen in downtown Atlanta. The popular downtown restaurant was closing due to the construction of Centennial Olympic Park.

At Yin Yang Café, singer Audrey Shakir performs with the Naked Orchestra in 1995. Yin Yang would later become Apache Café.

Nashville musician Webb Wilder pleases the crowd at the Wachovia Stage at Music Midtown in 1995.

Music Midtown office where preparations for three-day live music festival is being done. Cindy Ogletree (left) is calling around letting folks know that the posters have arrived to promote the event as Rob Fraser, Holli Mattison and Laura Valente examine the posters.

Concert promoter Alex Cooley holds signed poster of First Annual Music Midtown festival. Photo taken at the Roxy Theatre in Buckhead in 1995.

Christina Ward of Atlanta enjoys the band Donkey’s show from atop her friend Scott Tangeman’s shoulders on Saturday during Music Midtown.

Isaac Hayes at South City Kitchen in Midtown. He comments that music today is a bit shallow and in some cases too crass and abrasive and there's not a lot of live playing resulting in less of the natural feel of things.

Little Five Points Community Association’s Taylor Binkley protesting in front of a local business in 1995.

A billboard rises above the streets of downtown Atlanta on Jan. 27, 1995.

Buildings being demolished on Luckie Street near downtown.

Casey Barts works to restore an 1899 store front on Main Street in Social Circle on Wednesday April 12, 1995.

The runway of the Newton County Airport and a subdivision off Richardson Street are separated only by a small patch of woods as seen in this aerial photograph taken on February 14, 1995.

Coca-Cola Olympic City site between Techwood, Alexander, Luckie and Baker streets Photo taken April 1995.

Property on Walton Street being condemned for the Centennial Olympic Park includes the building where the Soho nightclub is located. The site is owned by Arthur Lamas. This property near CNN Center will bring one of the highest prices yet among parcels being acquired for the Centennial Olympic Park.

The Curry House on Moreland Avenue in 1995.

Techwood Drive at the corner of Harris Street looking across the Centennial Olympic Park site toward CNN Center.

Planet Hollywood makes its mark on Atlanta as its grand opening celebration on in June 1995 draws closer. Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the restaurant. Here the sign is being hoisted into place.

Arnold Schwarzenegger greets excited fans before heading into the grand opening of Planet Hollywood in Atlanta in June 1995.

Traffic flows along the downtown connector between a portion of the Olympic Village on the right and the city skyline on July 2, 1995.

Little Five Points near Fellini’s Pizza in 1995.

Tom Fuller (left, back to camera), Ben Fuller, Matt Holt and Jeremy Adams while away the time playing Grateful Dead songs while they wait outside The Omni for the night’s Dead concert.

Loretta Mayfield cools herself under the umbrella at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Atlanta at Piedmont Park in 1995.

Georgia State musicians (from left) Jason Passmore, Chris Riggenbach, Asa Fain and Tim Ussery lay down riffs at the first Fairlie-Poplar Friday celebration, held September 22, 1995.

Drivers and passersby are suddenly doused as a water line erupts on Peachtree Road, near Collier Road, shooting a fountain of water sky high on Oct. 1, 1995. The main apparently started leaking the day before, while a city sewer crew was working in the area. During patching, it began spewing water but was finally capped about 2 p.m. Oct. 1.

A large tree lies across Brownsmill Street in LaGrange after it was toppled by high winds caused by Hurricane Opal. Candace Baker, 14 (left), Brittany Hart,7, and Michelle Hart,13, walk past the tree going home.

Harrison Young (age 11) hands a broken street sign down to his sister Christian (10) in the aftermath of Hurricane Opal in October 1995. They were trying to replace it but it wouldn't stay.

Hurricane Opal turned into a tropical storm as it swept through Georgia in October 1995. In Columbus, it did some damage to street lights, one of which is being repaired here by city worker Sam Campos.

A jubilant fan is hoisted in the air by a friend on the corner of Pharr Road and Peachtree Street after the Atlanta Braves won the World Series in October 1995.

Former Atlanta Constitution building, right, red brick with boarded-up windows, sits at the corner of Forsyth and Alabama Streets in November 1995 as construction looms around it.

The trees near the Henry Grady statue on Marietta Street were about to come down in order to create a new streetscape. They’re seen here in November 1995.

God's Favorite People, a homeless shelter and church, was forced out of its space on Hayden Street in 1995 because it was in the path of Centennial Olympic Park. It was relocated to a former rooming house on Warner Street.

A front end loader travels up Mt. Zion Road in Morrow as motorists navigate the construction barricades in 1995.

Construction crews work on the main road into the Olympic equestrian venue in Conyers on July 6, 1995.

Celebrating Atlanta Braves fans stream out into the street at the corner of Peachtree and Pharr roads in Buckhead after the Braves won the World Series, Saturday, October 28, 1995.

RuPaul pats the cheek of Cator Sparks at a book-signing appearance on June 14, 1995.

RuPaul with 14-year-old Seanna Turner , then a sophomore at North Atlanta High School. At a RuPaul book-signing appearance on June 14, 1995 , the two were talking about going to the same high school (it was Northside when Ru was there).

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Forsyth Street ends just south of the CSX railroad tracks as Georgia DOT workers are constructing a new bridge that will connect it to Marietta Street Inthe background is the Five Points MARTA rail station

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