Flashback Photos: Stone Mountain through the years

AJC Flashback Photos: Stone Mountain through the years Atlanta's Stone Mountain has a long, complex history. It's home to the Confederate Memorial Carving, which is the largest high relief sculpture in the world. This 1937 photo shows a car approaching the mountain via dirt road. Famed sculptor Gutzon Borglum, shown here (at left) between 1923-25 with a plaster maquette of his vision for the Stone Mountain sculpture, was tasked with carving the original planned sculpture onto the face of Stone Mountain.

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When you used to be able to drive up the mountain (1940s). I know an old timer that has a good story. On their way down the mountain in a car...... ready... the brakes went out. He said worst rude in a car hes ever had. Bouncing very hard, going very fast and not being able to stay on the pathway. I said thats nuts really? Then he walks me out to his shop, behind the building sits a old studa all beat to hell. He said...." i still have the car"... damn near had ass prints in the seats..

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Was that Jimmy Carter?

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Even though the carving is politically incorrect, it still is pretty.