- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Rich's department store's Christmas event, the Pink Pig, a child-scaled monorail train-ride, came to the downtown Atlanta, Georgia store in the 1950s, and was moved to the "Festival of Trees" at the Georgia World Congress Center in the 1990s after the downtown store closed in 1991, Atlanta, Georgia, December 12, 1990.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Schwarz, Michael A. (Photographer)
- Date of Original:
- 1990-12-12
- Subject:
- Monorail railroads
Amusement rides
Rich’s (Retail store) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Newspaper assignment sheet attached to print verso identifies the photographer (Michael A. Schwarz): "atop Rich's, the 6th floor where the Pink Pig monorail has been running at Christmas-time for 36 years. This is a story about kids who ride the Pig and say, 'That was radical!' and the adults who fold themselves in half to get inside. It's about tradition, the feeling. Luke Woodall, 4, peering out from the front seat of the pink pig." Assignment sheet date-stamped Fri Dec 21 1990 J C, and Sun Dec 16 1990 J C. Newspaper caption attached to print verso: "Peering from the belly of Percival Pig, L. Woodall, 4, gets ready for a ride atop the Downtown Rich's. Generations of Georgians have ridden the Pink Pig, a holiday tradition at the department store since 1953. Article, page H1."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/849
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:849/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCP292-035b, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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