This was shot in June 2020 featuring a route through Downtown, Midtown, and the Buckhead areas of Atlanta on a Saturday morning with light traffic and great lighting conditions. FAQ'a and Director's Commentary ae at the end of the ride.
Atlanta is affectionately known as a “city in the forest.” Surrounding the iconic skyline of buildings stands giant trees and other types of plant life that envelop much of the man-made infrastructure.
I love Atlanta. I am a transplant originally from Gary,IN. Moved here in 1986. I wouldn’t move back north for no amount of money. The weather is always beautiful and I live in the suburbs where we have really beautiful parks in the Lawrencevill/Suwannee area.
Me my 9 nine year old daughter love your channel..my daughter has autism she loves watching you drive and I love the music...plus they help her drift off to sleep...but she loves your channel..watches everyday ❤
*I’m a Native of Atlanta and a Real 🍑 of Georgia all my 63 years!! I must admit, I miss the old simple love of Atlanta and it’s greenery also the pink & white blooms of the Dogwood trees that lined the residents and businesses curb!! Atlanta gives us 5 seasons each year! Thanks Jim for reminding me of those good old memories!* 😊
I live in the suburbs of Atlanta (Dallas) and worked for AAA. I'm a native of Ga. Every street you showed was part of the area I used to work in. Thank you for that awesome video.
Thanks Jim. I can’t travel due to all of this COVID-19 but when I do I love to rent a car and just go riding in the city listening to good local channels in the city. This here is great to replace it for now! I love it!
Wow! I absolutely loved this video! I’m an Atlanta transplant myself and lived here for almost 30 years. I got a feeling of hometown pride watching this. From Freedom Parkway up through Buckhead I pictured myself driving to work at different jobs I had over the years. Atlanta really did change. Atlanta is more set up for the Olympics now than in 1996! Iconic Ponce de Leon would make a neat tour too! I also appreciate how your ride along went past the sites of the protest / riots we had only a few weeks prior. We are a diverse and peaceful city, cleaning the mess up straight away with the help of volunteer Atlanta citizens chipping in. Peaceful protests could be seen later in the afternoon throughout your route. Lately, as I get older, I also think about moving outside of Atlanta because the cost of living can be high. But this video represents what I love about living in Atlanta. Where else can you find such a groovy and pretty way of living!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Unlike some big cities getting to and from Downtown, Midtown and Buckhead are very easy to do and is fairly easy to get around.
This video immediately skyrocketed into my top 10 favorite FWJ videos list. Lots to digest here and I could spend all evening typing. Attention Trucking DMs and/or dispatchers... Wanna confuse a young (green) driver? Just tell him his delivery is on Peachtree... You'll have hours of fun hearing "which one" over and over every 10 minutes. Satch AND the Moodys! Concerts from the Gods!!! Etc, Etc, Etc...
I’ve always loved Atlanta. Even when I was like 8 or 7, I always felt like I was supposed to grow up there, instead of Arkansas. It’s just something about the A that I love. Can’t wait to move there! Thank you for this vid 🔥
I've loved your drive videos for ages. And I have to say the music choices have been awesome, they definitely add to the overall feel. And you have no idea how much my music collection has grown simply by watching these vids, you have such awesome taste.
Thank you for sharing that, it means a lot to me, it makes me happy when people not only enjoy the videos but the music as well because that is such a personal thing.
Nice ride- Atlanta is a city that is on my bucket list of places to visit in my lifetime and also see- and I loved seeing the surface streets of Buckhead as well! Great ride! Sorry about the delay in seeing this- and your Seattle video but sometimes I can get caught up in my own worlds and all- I really am impressed with Atlanta and one day want to see it myself. I always wanted to- I grew up watching Braves games on WTBS and always was fascinated by Georgia, Atlanta and all as well! Great ride- well worth the wait to see!
I visited Atlanta Halloween weekend of 2016. I was there to see the Packers play the Falcons, which was a crushing defeat for Green Bay at the last minute. I was happy to see the Georgia Dome before it was replaced, great stadium by dome standards. The weather has incredibly hot & humid that weekend, which is uncharacteristic for Atlanta at that time of year (If I'm not mistaken.) I really enjoyed my time out there, spend a lot of time downtown, and ate at "Googie Burger" several times. Great video as always! Hopefully, someday I can see the new stadium.
I always love watching your Atlanta videos as some of the locations are familiar to me! Especially the ones going down Peachtree Road. Keep up the great work!
Really enjoyed this street tour of ATL. I also like to go when things are quiet 🏢 🏗️ (no ppl around or traffic) so I appreciated your efforts here. Would love to have been at the Champagne Jam concert too!! 😃
Great video and a great change of pace showing city streets and sharing some of Atlanta’s rich history The only time I been to Atlanta was driving through on the highway or catching a connecting flight at the airport I’ll have to actually go visit and stay for a few days Atlanta has very beautiful scenery Thanks for the content
Ponce City Market , Virginia Highlands, High Museum of Art and Woodruff Arts Center are also great places to see dont forget Piedmont Park 🔆 Atlanta is a beautiful city i love living here
One of the things I love about Downtown Atlanta: The trees lining Andrew Young Int'l Blvd. I live in Griffin, and hardly ever get up ATL way, so your videos in the city are always great!
I can't believe it took me so long to say that I enjoy your videos immensely. A plus for me: I live in Dallas. Your intro shows Central Expy. headed south, Forest Ln. coming up. I'd take that exit to get to my house. BTW, that is the busiest intersection in Texas. The "High Five."
Your videos 📹 are so beautiful and qualitative. Beautiful sceneries of the great city of Atlanta, Georgia. The background music 🎶 is top notch 👌, I am literally taking a great tour around Atlanta in the comfort of my home on my phone📱screen. Big up to FWJ channel; you've wom my heart ❤ and my subscription. Keep well and stay blessed 🙏
congratulations, your videos are wonderful, it was through them that I rediscovered the heart group with the fabulous barracuda because I didn't remember singing, thanks man.
MAN, this was a nice relaxing video!! It's conditions like this that give you a good vibe. Great picks for music, to compliment it. Blessings from Tasmania.
I gotta say not only you picked a great day for drive downtown but Atlanta is sure beautiful city. Never been there and thanks for the video, now I know what downtown looks like.
Also good song picks. I haven't heard Arrested development song in ages, took me back in time, I believe I was in eighth of ninth grade at the time the song came out.
Great video! I love how you do these. Side note: Margaret Mitchell house is where she lived, but she actually wrote most of Gone with the Wind over at Vickery’s on Crescent. Lots of history in that place, and sadly it succumbed to developers a few years ago. :(
Hey Jim! Nice video I just want to let you know. That at the beginning there must’ve been a copyright issue hopefully you will remix it soon! :) Also this is a great video! It shows of the vibrancy of downtown Atlanta! It kinda reminds me of deep Ellum here in Dallas! Hopefully Downtown Dallas can eventually be as big as Downtown Atlanta!
Loved those first four minutes especially (that area annually becomes home for a week when DragonCon is in town over Labor Day week, just not this year).
Thanks for the ride. Very familiar territory. My sister lived in Smyrna from 2003 to 2014 and everywhere we went in the Metro area, she would take a different route to and from our destinations. She didn’t like traveling the same way all the time. 😊😊
They're from nearby Marietta. Was passing by there recently on the way home from the mountains & Atlanta has a kicking station that specializes in Southern-infused rock...We loved it!
6:12 US 278 appears on a Georgia route marker. All of the US routes in Georgia also have state designations, and the Interstates have hidden 400-series routes, which are shown on the state highway map.
Oh man.. I was supposed to go there for the first time in March, but covid just had to ruin it.. But anyway...I love your videos so much!! Hopefully I can reschedule my trip soon.
I moved out of atl after being there for 8 yrs in March. All these rds that you travel bought back memories, especially at court land st. That’s where I went to gsu at and near the Benz stadium since I lived near there on the west side last yr.
It was great visiting you and riding along for the journey, especially with all the conversations and insights during the trip. Aspects of Downtown Atlanta and Midtown were really nice, I felt some familiar vibes of Downtown Oakland during the drive. I hope to get on editing the rest of the video footage soon and get more out before the end of the year.
Enjoyed this immensely. I was last there in 1994 and it's such a different city now. We stayed in Buckhead, and there wasn't really all that much to it back than. Looks great now. I see from Streetview that Buckhead Diner is still there! I was especially impressed with Midtown in the video.
Nifty city...only ever been there once and it was on a layover at the airport! It’s cool to see the same US Route 19 that passes through western Pennsylvania (my home) also passes through the ATL!
Awesome video, looking at ATL as one of the cities im considering moving to before the end of 2020 so thanks for a really cool look at what could become my new home.
Thank you for this video, Jim! I loved it very much - the music and the sights. it made me very nostalgic for my days as an Uber/Lyft/DoorDash/etc driver in Atlanta a few years ago. I know nostalgia for 2017 pales in comparison to nostalgia for 1982, but it's all I have...lol. I personally would love to hear your stories of pre-Olympics midtown/downtown...it's so bourgie now. I love seeing the photos of old Atlanta. It's shame not many people were able to take road videos of Atlanta back in the day. I've always wanted to know what it was like to drive on the connector before the rebuild. All the best from Tuscaloosa, Ala.!
Thank you, yeah parts along this ride were really gritty back in the 80s and 90s and Buckhead wasn't what it is today either. The connector, and just about all Atlanta Freeways before the rebuild was garbage, the connector especially, it was still using its pre-Interstate 1951 design in places.
Techwood, Perry, Capitol, Carver, and all the damn homes....lol....not to mention East Lake Meadows (little Vietnam), Bankhead Courts, Hollywood Courts....just too many to name....glad they tore em all down
I’m glad to see we are finally getting serious in the city about replacing the old terrible embarrassing wire span traffic lights (of which I still saw far too many in this great street vid) with mast arm ones more appropriate for a modern American city. I’ve never been in another one that still has then at ALL that I can recall, let alone all over the place in the core city of the 8th largest metro in the country. Weird pet peeve I know but I just hate them they look terrible and it makes me feel like I’m in some backwater town too broke to afford even the basics of modern infrastructure. I’ve given up on decent signage and street landscaping and upkeep, will never happen here and I now kind of enjoy it as part of the city’s funky charm. And all of Little Five Points intersection has mast arm signals and I see more going up all over town. Nice!
I watched this earlier this evening and I really enjoyed this tour through your city. I can't wait for this pandemic to be over with so you and everybody can take road trips without worring about getting sick. May you please do more videos in Montana. My husband is from there and it's beautiful. If it is convenient for you. Keep up the good work, and hopefully next year will be better for road travel.
Thank you very much, Montana is not exactly on my beaten path, I enjoyed driving through the state very much in 2016 and hope to get back but it may be a few years.
This video got backed up and the first song is muted due to copyright. The streets of Atlanta looked amazing there. There were only a bit of people around the streets due to this pandemic.
Thank you very much and thanks for noticing the windshield, I am very conscious of it....I don't understand how others knowingly set up a camera to film but don't clean the windshield beforehand.
@Taylor Montgomery Most states have vertical traffic signals. New Mexico, Texas and Florida mostly have horizontal traffic lights. Some states such as New Jersey have one or the other, depending on the municipality.
I went to Atlanta back in the summer of 2019 I have to that ATL has some amazing architecture it reminds me of how Kansas City was built and how the buildings are there. I’d like to come back to Atlanta one day.
Probably my favourite video of yours in a long time! I always love surface street tours of new cities. Agree with you about doing it at low traffic times. My favourite time to shoot city tour footage is to wake up early on a Sunday morning and go for a ride downtown at 6am at the crack of dawn! Ted Turner is pretty well known here too believe it or not. We've long had CNN and TBS widely available as some of the first imported networks on Cable as soon as the early 80s. 😀
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Yes, I don't like the idea of filming a route like this during the normal hustle and bustle of the day, some people seem to want that but I don't get the attraction.
a new one from you Jim!!!! I was so happy to see that notification! I'm excited! Good to see you again and I hope you have been well!!! Never been to Atlanta so I really liked this little tour! *thumbs up* PS: loved your choice of music, like usual! :)
Great tour of the streets of ATL and you hit all the high spots, backed up with an excellent soundtrack (I've always thought of Champagne Jam as one of Atlanta's signature songs). Did two stints in the ATL myself (both Gwinnett County) in 1974-1982 (childhood-preteen years) and 1997-2009 (adult). Have some good memories but got a little too sprawly and fast-paced for me.
Yeah the streets up there aren't great. but Old Orchard Beach is one of the greatest beaches I've ever been to. And I live in North Carolina and there's nothing here.
Interesting geological Fact. At this point on Peachtree Street (@ 2:49) you cross the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico watershed divided. Note, starting @ 2:11-Piedmont Av and Andrew Young International Boulevard, you are traveling (West) up hill all the way to Peachtree St. Once on the West side of Peachtree St. you are traveling downhill. All the water on the East side of Peachtree St. flows Southeast to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the South River to the Ocmulgee River to the Atlamaha River to the Atlantic Ocean. All the water on the West side of Peachtree St. flows South to the Gulf of Mexico by way of the Chattahoochee / Apalachicola River.
@@Freewayjim Another location where the watershed divide has been featured in your videos are the ones filmed on DeKalb Ave. The divide runs along the MARTA tracks.
Giving me flashbacks from last month when I went to Atlanta for the first time the 3rd weekend in October, I wanted to drive around and tour downtown by myself primarily downtown, and somehow I got caught in the Clemson-Georgia Tech traffic for about 30 minutes then next thing I know I was racing on the interstate like what the hell just happened...thank God for voice GPS navigation
hopefully the Final Four is hosted in Atlanta in the future sad that place was going to get a final four but got denied due to COVID 19, also I was in downtown Atlanta back in 2015 and visited all of those tourist areas there
I had the opportunity to go to Atlanta when I took a week off work to attend a friends wedding in Spartanburg but instead I made the drive back to Providence. I had been a Braves fan in the 90's so of course I wanted to see Turner Field, which was the ballpark they played in back then. None-The-Less it looks to me a very cool city to drive in.
Nice video. Like the Atlanta area. Flew in to visit one day. Took MARTA to Peachtree Station, up escalator was out of service. When I got to street, turned walked toward Centennial Pl and was all excited to see Waffle House sign. Got there, and sign was up but inside still under construction lol. Finally ate there on a later trip.... Went to Lenox Sq mall just a bit after Falcons lost SB. If not for a small kiosk, nary a piece of Falcon gear... ;) Hoping to get there again for a couple other things I'd like to see. Take care.
Damn, Jim. You've been on the road for years. You're still at it. ATL is changed a lot. I see the Fail-cons have a new playground to lose on year after year 🏈
I think there’s an error at the end you said it was filmed @10:35 pm . Please correct me if I’m wrong but I really enjoyed the video and the music too so amazing unlike other people posting mute videos without music.
You are the 4th person to mention it, I use templates for things like that and I simply forgot to change the P to an A, more importantly, the time is correct at the start of the video ;). And thank you on the video and music, glad you enjoyed it.
I don’t know what it is but it’s such a kick when you drive through our town. And really... (!) Isn’t it the best way to see ATL? Down Peachtree through Midtown into Buckhead? Can’t tell you why but these are so relaxing and fascinating.
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy the videos....yes I agree, this the best route out of the city if you were wanting to show someone from out of town (and I had an out of towner with me which made it an easy call).
