- Collection:
- Planning Atlanta - A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s
- Title:
- Motorcross Race in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, March 1, 1981
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Favorite, Louie, 1950-
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1981-03-01
- Subject:
- Sports
Stadiums
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographic prints
newspapers - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Description on Verso: "Battle of the bikers, The usually serene and grassy floor of Atlanta Stadium looked more like the Dakota badlands as riders in the "Super Bowl of Motorcross" churned the dirt Saturday night. This, believe it or not, is the field on which the Braves will begin play in April, after the bulldozers and groundskeepers have come in and reclaimed the playing field from the motocross bunch. A crowd estimated at 40,000, largest ever to witness the four year old event, turned out to cheer practically everything that moved, from the racers on their bucking- bull dirt bikes to Burt Reynolds circling over head in a helicopter to the aerial bomb that kept going off in the sky. In physical demand, motocross is some mixture of bull riding, rugby, mountain climbing and steeplechasing, but the promoters aren't satisfied with that so they try to bill it as war."
Locations: Fulton County (Ga.) -- Atlanta (Ga.) - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/PlanATL/id/5888
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/PlanATL:5888/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).
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY STADIUM B&W #1 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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