Our family lived in an apartment on E. Rock Springs Road, zip code 30306, between Emory University and Morningside. I was just barely six years old, my sister was four. I remember seeing so many downed trees, thousands of foot-long icicles, and experiencing utter silence. We had candles and we thought it was fun, wondering why mom and dad complained or worried. Now, I'm 58, lived in the Ozarks in the past and braved a few blizzards with over a foot of snow yet I've never seen so much ice and frozen landscapes.

Cars back in those days had class.They didn't all look the same.

I was living there then at 5 or 6 yts old...until 1971 and then came back in Dec 1978..thanks for posting

Thanks for posting..brings back memories..i think i saw the house we moved into in either 79 or 80 ..109 Hamilton blvd..i think it was at 1:33 of this video..

Does anyone remember the snow storm of 1978, I lived in canton ga and my family was out of power a week.

Hi. Do you have more vintage News clips from your area?

My mother was the 8 year old child in the home, I thank nothing but God that the murderers didn't intrude the home and harm her. I am truly sad that this happened because I never got to meet Thelma, nor Pam. My mother always talked about this story and It made me feel some type of way. What was the purpose of this? My mother truly misses them. I wish I could've met them.

Thanks goodness my mama and papaw always. Had these songs on repeat growing up weekends was gospel music 🎶 memories Oct 20!!!!2023 Friday

That town has grown a lot since I lived there!! Would you happen to be related to Mike Baugh? He worked at Precise Packaging (Put plastic spoons, forks, & knives (sometimes, napkins) when I worked there. Not in '79, but a few years later). If I'm not mistaken, he had a sister(in-law?) who worked there too. Anyway, I loved the video! Now, do one to put together with this one to show the differences from then and now!

We lived near Rome ga when this hit in rural area and power went out mark 13th and stayed out 2 weeks we couldn't watch any news coverage and had no idea what was happening around us. We finally ran a speaker from my pickup truck to inside our home where we could listen to news a few days in to the blizzard.

It's crazy how this was filmed 20 years before I was born, yet I recognized so many locations in this video. It's also surreal seeing the same restaurant that my grandpa owned at 5:48. Dad told me so many stories about it, but I never thought I'd get to see it here on video.

Another horrific winter storm in Georgia took place in March 1993. Heavy snow started blanketing the south, with some areas of Georgia receiving up to 35 inches of snow. And…Back in 1973, Georgia was pummeled with ice, snow, sleet, and rain, causing hundreds of thousands of people in the South to lose power. At the time I lived in Woodstock where we had 7” of ice.

hey. we've spoke before. i'm justin. your dad was my grandfather thru marriage to susie. i have a question. did u ever have any pictures taken of Betty Sue Davis, susie's daughter, or your stepmom's daughter? i always mean't to ask you. were you able to meet her growing up?

Well it covered all of metro Atlanta as it is known today and I assume further out too but I was only 10 and there was no power for tv so I don’t remember how much of the state it covered.

I remember this storm. I was a month shy of my 10th birthday. We had to take the food out of the fridge and freezer and put it on the back porch. The local hospital had to given a generator to continue keeping the ER running and we cooked on the bbq grill. It was great fun for a kid but a Royal pain in the rear for the grown ups. Two months later my little hometown east of Atlanta was hit with a powerful tornado that practically destroyed it.

Two years after the film was made I made my first trip to Griffin. My 1st grade class at Terry Mill Elementary School in Atlanta took a field trip, and we rode a train from downtown Atlanta to Griffin and back. The first and last time I was ever on a moving train. Half a century later, I moved to Griffin, and here I shall remain.

I was born in Austell Ga. in 1984, my family and I moved to Griffin Ga. in 1989, I never heard of this, I moved out of Griffin in 2005, but still visit often and still never heard of this, it's crazy.

I remember this storm! Barely 8 years old and my mom (deceased) and my identical twin brothers, also deceased) were living off of Westlock Circle in a two story house, and us three went to Clifton Elementary School (now closed), we could walk to school and to Gresham Park in Decatur. Us three got into our mom's California king sized bed and couldn't sleep due to the pine trees snapping all night long. I remember one tree just missing Mom's Oldsmobile Delta 88! I don't remember how long we were without power, but I do remember Mom feeding us using her fondue pot! 11 months later, we moved to Gwinnett County.. in Snellville on Skyland Drive.

thanks for sharing

I lived in Griffin in 1976 when I was 11. I lived on Ruth St, near Experiment. Other than my immediate neighborhood, my memories are very hazy. There was a fruit stand (I think more of a small store that sold fruit) that we could walk to; on Old Atl Hwy I think. I was hoping I might see the Pizza Hut in this video, that's the only major building I think I'd remember. But I didn't spot it. Did I miss it?

I was 11 we lived in douglasville , our house had a full basement so we moved down there, my dad took a old gas space heater an hooked to the furnace gas line. Other than the boredom we were fine.

I grew up on that same street less than a half mile away, my aunt was friends with Pam. I was 8 years old when this happened. It was rather unsettling, I remember my mom, aunt, and grandma being very upset.

She should be in jail

I was looking for someone I might recognize but nope. Where I grew up you could see the Dundee sign across the field of the experiment station, I used to love when they decorated it for Christmas. My mom's dad and aunts and uncles all worked in that mill long before I was ever thought of. It was a damn crying shame when it shut down.

WOOOOW IM 24 years old 😮

I was born and raised in Griffin! It was so great back then and nice city! Not anymore gangs and drugs has destroyed that city. I live in Cartersville now.

Man this is good. I remember that mill and some of the people.

By chance do you have more videos or pictures of Griffin?

Wow nice car.great look back on a better time.

Without all the illegals and punks of today.see what happens when you take away God from people's daily lives.griffin went in the crapper.good someone preserved images of a better time in america for sure.it could've remained as it was but a long line of political criminals saw that it wouldnt.shame on them.

I remember this very well, I was 12 years old and I grew up in Orchard Hill. We rolled huge snowball’s about 2-3 feet high and was rolling em off into our pond.

Wow 😯 I was just 3 years old living in Orchard Hill.

My friend is having the same issue right now…my friend posted up by his car with a water gun for about an hour then fell asleep. I suggested we taped white paper in the window so he couldn’t see his reflection. We did one window and he the robin moved to another so we will put paper in all the windows now I guess? My friend pays for the unlimited washes from Crew car wash…

I was only 6 months old

We took the station wagon to a parking lot, and connected a sled to the trailer hitch with a length of rope. Cold weather tubing action.

Our power was out for 13 days...

We have the same problem he poops on all our cars so aggravating!!!

Now that was a great cold spell it would be nice too see it get that cold or within 5°degrees of that agian but in the months of December, January or February in the middle of winter I love too see it get very cold across most of the country I consider the best part of the country has had a very mild winter the exception was January that part was considered more normal, I hope next winter we don't have a LA nina!

i was a health inspector for butts county from 1988-1991, fresh air was and still is awesome. i buy pounds of meat without sauce because if the meat is cooked properly, you don't have to hide it with sauce. several quarts of brunswick stew and coleslaw. i am ready for my 3 hour ride back to tn. fresh air in athens ga is fantastic also

I like this group and has been a blessing to me for many years!

Neat

That's when America was successful!!!!!

Omg. First time I’ve seen this. PAM is my sister !! Omg. We have the same father !! Can’t believe I’m seeing this. I was living in Macon at the time. I went to their funeral 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

We were newly married and at my wife's house in Roswell. Her parents had come, against my recommendation from Birmingham. 5 days and 2 1\2 ft of snow later they tried to leave and couldn't exit the subdivision. After coming back from failed attempt to leave we settled in to watching the wood burn in the fireplace. My new father in law suggested several times that I needed to go bring in more firewood. He reluctantly brought in more firewood after I explained that I had kept the fireplace going for 5 days and I would throw his ass outside if he didn't go get more wood. Happy Family !

That was when WXIA 11Alive was ABC in Atlanta. Only a year and a healf would go by, before it becomes NBC.

Beautiful

This is such a lovely channel. As a new resident of Griffin ( since 1995), l never realized how big downtown Griffin. My wife is a life time resident. Thanks again for posting.

I lived in Griffin from late 1974 to 1982 and graduated GHS in 1979, so I recognize all of this!

Thanks for doing this hard work David....Bill

I worked for Southern Bell at this time. We were called out to restore phone service. Will never forget climbing poles encased in ice (no bucket trucks back then). Power Co. workers had an even worse job.