- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- East Lake Meadows
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Children--1970-1980
Housing projects--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Play (Recreation)--Georgia--Atlanta
Playgrounds--Georgia--Atlanta
Bicycles and tricycles
East Lake Meadows (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, East Lake, 33.75261, -84.30437
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of buildings at the East Lake Meadows housing project, the denuded playground at the complex, and an unidentified boy on a bicycle, in Atlanta, Georgia.
East Lake Meadows, a 650-unit public housing project composed of two-story brick buildings, duplexes, and a high rise, was built in 1970 in eastern Atlanta, adjacent to East Lake Golf Course. The housing project's reputation for violence later earned it the nickname of "Little Vietnam" among locals. The housing project was demolished and the site redeveloped into a mixed-income community, the Villages of East Lake, in the mid-1990s. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.513.014
ahc101513014.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2165
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2165/manifest.json
- Rights Holder:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U. S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
