Atlanta Magazine
60 years of covering Atlanta: The 1970s
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January 1970: “The City’s Prophecy” what comes next for the nation’s “City of the ’60s”
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 ’70s in 8 Quotes
From soccer to women in the workplace, these quotes offer a glimpse into 1970s Atlanta
“The $30 Million Industry Atlanta Wants to Kill”
November 1970
“The kingpins that control the hard drug trade are smart businessmen. They looked at Atlanta’s hippies, who were smoking marijuana and taking LSD, and they saw a big, new potential market of receptive kids. All they had to do was offer them something else for ‘turning on.’” They turned on.