Bands – Pop Festivals – Music Venues and Clubs – Light Shows

The first club of note was a coffeehouse performance space beneath 14th and Peachtree named The Catacombs. It was ground zero for Atlanta Freaks becoming hippies in 1967.

Later it became For Heads Only.

Thanks to Bill Hardin for these ads.

Backstreet

The Bowery

Funochios

Atlanta Municipal Auditorium

Sports Arena

Richards

The Great Southeast Music Hall 

688

Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom

• Alex Cooley interview

  Alex Cooley opened Atlanta to the music world, and vice versa. He also brought MidTown Music Festival to The Strip!
  He has some very interesting things to say.

   

  Thanks Alex for all the great music ...

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• Backstreet

  Backstreet was a dance club off Peachtree. It was a gay club but welcomed those exploring all  freedoms. Remember oral sex in Georgia, even between a married couple,  could land you in jail before 2003!    Backstreet and later  The Limelight both served as battlefields against Georgia’s antiquated laws on sex.

  Backstreet was where the music and ...

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• Music venue ads from Bill Hardin

  Bring back any memories?

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• The Twelfth Gate is a church for turned-on types.

  Atlanta Constitution Magazine  June 9, 1968 pg. 24

  The Twelfth Gate is a church for turned-on types. Coffeehouse Preach-In

  By Olive Ann Burns  (note the wonderful Southern author)

  THERE’LL be a preach-in and love ...

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• The Castle – Golden Horn

  http://ethunter1.blogspot.com/2006/08/golden-horn-revisited.html

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2006

  The Golden Horn – Revisited

  

   

   

   

   

  Photo by Rocky Hunter

  This morning we were looking at the pictures on ...

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• Gena

  I worked at the The Twelfth Gate starting in the summer of 1969 untill 1972 I think, and lived on 14th street. I was also in Daryl Roades and the HaHavishnu Orchestra from 1975-1976. I went to The Atlanta College of Art, the guy who ran The Catacombs went to the school also. I think he ...

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• Electric Ballroom

  The Electric Ballroom  was opened in the Georgian terrace by Alex Cooley.

  The Turkey Trip was to be at the Duke Tire warehouse at 11th and Peachtree right on the Strip. As often happened, the night before the event the place was hurriedly condemned by the city. The concert was moved to the Georgian Terrace and the price ...

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• Great Southeast Music Hall

  Great Southeast Music Hall

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• Roses Cantina – 688

  Roses Cantina on Spring later morphed into  688. Poster from Doctor Steve.

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• Richards

  Richards opened with a bang on Atlanta’s scene. It was a sophisticated night club venue to have a rather intimate experience with a musical favorite. Unfortunately it also closed with flare.

   

  The Great Speckled Bird Jan. 9, 1975 Vol.  #2 pg. 1 

   

   

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