Wkls Shorts
Description: Dale Bryan Murphy (born March 12, 1956) is an American former outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for three National League (NL) teams, mainly the Atlanta Braves, from 1976 to 1993. A 7-time All-Star, he led the NL in home runs, runs batted in and slugging percentage twice each.
Description: Turtle's Records and Tapes was an Atlanta based southern US record store chain that specialized in cassettes, vinyl, and concert tickets and later it rented movies in VHS format. Great gift for crate diggers, vinyl record lovers, old school hip hoppers, turntable spinners and vintage music lovers. License plates promoting Atlanta's WKLS 96 Rock were sold here exclusively, and concert tickets were sold here.
Turtle's Records & Tapes - Hilton Head Getaway Weekend - May 1-3, 1981 Shorts
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Description: Turtle's Records and Tapes was an Atlanta based southern US record store chain that specialized in cassettes, vinyl, and concert tickets and later it rented movies in VHS format. Great gift for crate diggers, vinyl record lovers, old school hip hoppers, turntable spinners and vintage music lovers. License plates promoting Atlanta's WKLS 96 Rock were sold here exclusively, and concert tickets were sold here.
Description: TBS was originally established on December 17, 1976, as the national feed of Turner's Atlanta, Georgia, independent television station, WTCG. The decision to begin offering WTCG via satellite transmission to cable and satellite subscribers throughout the United States expanded the small station into the first nationally distributed "superstation." With the assignment of WTBS as the broadcast station's call letters in 1979, the national feed became known as SuperStation WTBS, and later SuperStation TBS, TBS Superstation, or simply TBS. The channel broadcast a variety of programming during this era, including films, syndicated series, and sports.
Superstation WTBS Atlanta Channel 17 - Logo 1979 thru 1981 Shorts
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Description: Charley Magruder’s, the north Atlanta club owned by Butch Weaver from the early 1980s through its demise in 1996, was the spot that attracted a motley procession of familiar faces, from Tommy Shaw of Styx to Lemmy of Motorhead to Butch Patrick (aka Eddie Munster) to members of Metallica — all of whom would swing by. It was a launching pad for many successful bands. The now defunct WKLS 96 Rock would host events there. Along with places like Turtle's Records and Tapes, CM was a safe haven for many an Atlantan to get their ROCK on!
Charley Magruder's Atlanta Bar (Building) - Night Spot for Events by WKLS 96 Rock Shorts
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Description: The Biscayne was Chevrolet's no-frills full-size model and was widely used by police departments in the mid-1960s because it was less expensive and could be ordered with high-performance engines.
Atlanta Police Car (1965 Chevrolet Biscayne 4-door Sedan) Shorts
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Description: Hyde Oldsmobile–Toyota was one of Cobb County's best-known automobile dealerships from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Located on Bankhead Highway (now Veterans Memorial Highway) in Mableton, it was a landmark business for generations of South Cobb residents. They did an advertising campaign with Archie Campbell of Hee Haw!
Hyde Oldsmobile Toyota - Mableton, GA - Archie Campbell (Hee Haw) Shorts
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Description: The Bankhead Drive-In Theater was one of Atlanta's most iconic outdoor movie theaters and a beloved landmark for more than three decades. It became famous not only for its movies but also for its unforgettable architecture. The theater opened on May 12, 1950, at 3350 Bankhead Highway NW (today's Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway), on Atlanta's west side. It was operated by the Georgia Theater Company and could accommodate approximately 650 automobiles. What made the Bankhead Drive-In instantly recognizable was its massive neon "curtain" screen tower.
Bankhead Drive In Theater (Atlanta Defunct) Opening Night Shorts
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Description: The Bankhead Drive-In Theater was one of Atlanta's most iconic outdoor movie theaters and a beloved landmark for more than three decades. It became famous not only for its movies but also for its unforgettable architecture. The theater opened on May 12, 1950, at 3350 Bankhead Highway NW (today's Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway), on Atlanta's west side. It was operated by the Georgia Theater Company and could accommodate approximately 650 automobiles. What made the Bankhead Drive-In instantly recognizable was its massive neon "curtain" screen tower.
Atlanta Braves - Hank Aaron era 1970s Chief and Stadium Shorts
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Steve Bartkowski - Legendary Quarterback for Atlanta Falcons Shorts
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Description: Turtle's Records and Tapes was an Atlanta based southern US record store chain that specialized in cassettes, vinyl, and concert tickets and later it rented movies in VHS format. Great gift for crate diggers, vinyl record lovers, old school hip hoppers, turntable spinners and vintage music lovers. License plates promoting Atlanta's WKLS 96 Rock were sold here exclusively, and concert tickets were sold here.
Atlanta Braves - Hank Aaron era 1970s Cap and Chief Shorts
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Description: Turtle's Records and Tapes was an Atlanta based southern US record store chain that specialized in cassettes, vinyl, and concert tickets and later it rented movies in VHS format. Great gift for crate diggers, vinyl record lovers, old school hip hoppers, turntable spinners and vintage music lovers. License plates promoting Atlanta's WKLS 96 Rock were sold here exclusively, and concert tickets were sold here.
Description: The Big Chicken in Marietta. GA was not originally built for a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. S.R. "Tubby" Davis built it for his eatery called Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck 'N Shake in 1956 at 12 Cobb Parkway in Marietta. Highway 41 had just been built. He thought it was a great way to advertise. In 1966, Davis sold the restaurant to his brother, who turned it into a KFC franchise.
Johnny Reb's Chick Chuck 'N' Shake - Big Chicken - Marietta, GA Shorts
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Description: The famous line "Hey, ask for the Wolfman!" was said by Doyle Rodgers, an Atlanta furniture store owner who became one of the city's most recognizable TV personalities. Rodgers owned Gallery Furniture, with stores in College Park and Gainesville, Georgia. Beginning in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s and 1990s, his low-budget but unforgettable TV commercials aired constantly on Atlanta stations, especially during Braves games on TBS. His signature closing line was: "And hey... ask for the Wolfman!"
Ask for the Wolfman! - WTBS Channel 17 Atlanta (Gallery Furniture) Shorts
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Description: Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine was a three-story restaurant and bar jutted out over I-285 above the Chattahoochee River in the 1980s.With its tin roof, water tower, and tipple cars, the ramshackle wooden structure looked like a theme-park attraction. The entrance resembled a mineshaft, which led either up to the dining room or down to the bar and dance floor. Decor was fringed Victorian lampshade–meets–rusting pickax. This location at Powers Ferry Road was actually part of a seven-city national chain named for Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor, an infamous gold-digger (silver, to be accurate) who married a wealthy Colorado mining mogul twice her age in the late 19th century.
Baby Doe's Matchless Mine (Building) - Legendary '80s Restaurant in Marietta, GA Shorts
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Description: The Atlanta Silverbacks were a professional soccer club that played in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1994 until folding after the 2015 season, known for playing in leagues like the A-League, USL, and NASL, with their home at Atlanta Silverbacks Park. Today, the Silverbacks name lives on through recreational leagues and the facilities at Silverbacks Park, a major sports complex for rugby, ultimate frisbee (Atlanta Hustle), and youth soccer, serving as a hub for Atlanta's soccer community.
Description: Turtle's Records and Tapes was an Atlanta based southern US record store chain that specialized in cassettes, vinyl, and concert tickets and later it rented movies in VHS format. Great gift for crate diggers, vinyl record lovers, old school hip hoppers, turntable spinners and vintage music lovers. License plates promoting Atlanta's WKLS 96 Rock were sold here exclusively, and concert tickets were sold here.
Description: The Ramblin' Raft Race was an annual Memorial Day weekend raft race on the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta that lasted from 1969 to 1980. At its peak, more than 300,000 rafters partook in the race. Amid increasing environmentalism, the race was cancelled. It lined a route which began at Morgan Falls Dam in Sandy Springs and ended at the shallow raft take-out a few hundred yards north of I-285 in Vinings.The race began in 1969 when several Delta Sigma Phi fraternity members at Georgia Tech, organized it as a social event. When the radio station WQXI became a sponsor and promoter, the race began to draw a larger crowd.
