- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Priscilla the Pink Pig
- Creator:
- Howard, Kate
- Date of Original:
- 2003/2008
- Subject:
- Amusement rides--Georgia--Atlanta
Department stores--Georgia--Atlanta
Rich's (Retail store)
Stores, Retail--Georgia--Atlanta
Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 2003 a new version of Priscilla the Pink Pig, a children's train ride, was installed at Rich's Department Store in Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead. The ride, which operated from 1953 until 1991 at Rich's downtown Atlanta store, is popular with Christmas shoppers and their families.
Photograph of Priscilla the Pink Pig, a children's train ride at Rich's Department Store in Lenox Square Mall in the Atlanta, Georgia neighborhood of Buckhead. The open train car features pink bench seats and a large, cartoonish pig's face at the front of the train. This new version of the ride, which originally operated from 1953 until 1991 at Rich's downtown Atlanta store, was installed in 2003. The original pink pig car sits in the background. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/richs-department-store/m-9324/
- Rights Holder:
- Photograph by Kate Howard, New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/richs-department-store
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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