Sports and Entertainment

Mrs. Thornton Kennedy rides an elephant at the Grant Park Zoo.

Students attend a ballet class at Norma’s Academy of Fine Arts on Campbellton Road in southwest Atlanta on November 17, 1973.

An unidentified performer in drag cabaret at the Cheshire Bridge Club in 1972.

The Angel Drill Team, the championship team from the Waukean-Zion-North Chicago area, perform in Woodruff Park in 1974.

A group of children prepare for a pickup game of basketball in the Bedford Pine neighborhood in January 1971.

The Cocktail Girls perform on stage at 688 Club on Spring Street in Midtown in 1987.

Portrait of a young woman with her bicycle taken by Kuhns Studio in 1895.

Toccoa native Paul Anderson and unofficial “strongest man in the world” demonstrates his strength in 1955.

An unidentified woman beats the heat by taking a swan dive in 1946.

Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield with entertainer Edger Bergen and his ventriloquist dummy Mortimer Snerd in February 1950.

Magician Hal Martin performs an illusion in Atlanta, ca. 1949.

Boxer Young Stribling gets wholloped by an even younger boxer.

Atlanta’s Games included legendary athletes, intense rivalries, and exciting underdogs. We’ve collected a few of our favorites from the summer of ‘96.

Throughout the twentieth century, there was the occasional movie filmed in Georgia.