Atlanta Magazine
60 years of covering Atlanta: The 1960s
November 1961: Cover by Milton Glaser, cofounder of New York magazine.
For our January 2021 issue, in honor of our 60th anniversary year, we dug through our archives to present a snapshot of the magazine during each of our six decades. We discovered groundbreaking work, inspiring stories, and, yes, some errors in judgement. Here’s what we found:
The ’60s in 6 Quotes
The era was nothing if not optimistic
“Opening Day at the Mart”
August 1961
“I dunno. I say it’s a big ugly fish. . . . My wife says it’s a gargoyle. But I’ll tell you this . . . I bet they sell it. People have been going in and out of there all day long. This looks more like Chicago than Atlanta.”