Y’all, FOOD CARTS, am I right? In case you’re not keeping tabs:
- The Atlanta Food Carts blog
- The Atlanta Street Food Coalition website
- The AJC editorial
- The petition
This Friday heralds the ASFC’s urban picnic at the Sweet Auburn Curb Market on Edgewood, from 11 AM to 2 PM. To celebrate, I dug up some photos of the Municipal Market/Curb Market in the ’70s from the Atlanta History Center’s archive. The Curb Market site has a nice brief history (with PICTURES!). If you have never been to the Curb Market and then finally go there Friday you will see that obviously it is a building and not a curb – this goes back to the days when the market was segregated and white people sold and shopped inside (the Municipal Market) while black customers and sellers operated outside on the curb. FYI.
From the looks of these photos, the Municipal Market was like the Manuel’s Tavern of farmers markets in the 1970s. (Did that analogy make any sense to you?) The market itself is not the only thing from these decades-old photos that is still around today – check out Jake’s Ice Cream and Andy Young’s haircut.
All photos by Boyd Lewis.
Previously: Monday in Sweet Auburn
Tags: andy young, boyd lewis, maynard jackson, municipal market, sam massell, sweet auburn curb market
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