Peachtree Street, 1966

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