Atlanta Magazine
60 years of covering Atlanta: The 1990s
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February 1995 This Gen X–heavy “Jobs” issue describes an early iteration of the gig economy.
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 ’90s in 5 Scenes
A dig through our archives unearthed a cinematic rendering of Georgia just before the turn of the millennium
“The X-Files: Generation Xers aren’t so much breaking the old rules as making their own”
poster the night before and went there to turn in this invoice to get paid. we delivered a bill and statement of services that we were cut a check for. and it was probably about 9:00 or 9:30 when i left that location. we reached hotlanta s owner, melvin ware, now living in los angeles. he called in advance and when he came, i went back and wrote the check behind the desk. that s where our checkbook was. but he said williams didn t stay that long, not as late as 9:00. it wasn t like five minutes or ten minutes. we already spent maybe a half hour or something like that. how did wayne get to the office? he drove. i think he had his dad s car, if i m not mistaken. wayne s father, homer williams, testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. but chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense, said wayne told him long ago this was a lie. he told me he had the car if daddy didn t have the car. but wayne said, i had the
that office near the atlanta airport. he had taken photos for this poster the night before and went there to turn in this invoice to get paid. we delivered a bill and statement of services that we were cut a check for. and it was probably about 9:00 or 9:30 when i left that location. we reached hotlanta s owner, melvin ware, now living in los angeles. he called in advance and when he came, i went back and wrote the check behind the desk. that s where our checkbook was. but he said williams didn t stay that long, not as late as 9:00. it wasn t like five minutes or ten minutes. we already spent maybe a half hour or something like that. how did wayne get to the office? he drove. i think he had his dad s car, if i m not mistaken. wayne s father, homer williams, testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. but chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense,
there to turn in this invoice to get paid. we delivered a bill and statement of services that we were cut a check for. and it was probably about 9:00 or 9:30 when i left that location. we reached hotlanta s owner, melvin ware, now living in los angeles. he called in advance and when he came, i went back and wrote the check behind the desk. that s where our checkbook was. but he said williams didn t stay that long, not as late as 9:00. it wasn t like five minutes or ten minutes. we already spent maybe a half hour or something like that. how did wayne get to the office? he drove. i think he had his dad s car, if i m not mistaken. wayne s father, homer williams, testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. but chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense, said wayne told him long ago this was a lie. he told me he had the car if daddy didn t have the car.
wayne s father, homer williams, testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. but chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense, said wayne told him long ago this was a lie. he told me he had the car if daddy didn t have the car. but wayne said, i had the vehicle and i didn t want to corrupt the my dad s testimony in the eyes of the jury, so i lied about it and said i didn t have it on the stand. what makes this important is what time robert henry says he saw wayne and nathaniel cater together. it was about 9:15 to 9:30. it was on luckie and forsyth street in downtown atlanta. so at the trial you said that you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. you were so sick that your mother said she had to help lie your body out on the bed you were so sick. this is where the confusion with all of us came in. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00, 9:30. but there s no one to