Recorded from Chopper 5 for WAGA-TV (Fox5 News) where I worked as a TV Photojournalist. It was sad to see the stadium go, My GrandPa got season passes every year, whether they were winning or losing! Shot with a Sony Betacam SP camera
“Following the Olympics, Fulton County commissioner, Marvin S. Arrington, Sr., had a plan to save the stadium and use it as a professional soccer arena and share the parking facilities between it and Turner Field but he was unable to push it through.[11] The stadium was imploded on August 2, 1997. A parking lot for Turner Field now stands on the site, with an outline of the old stadium built in. The monument that marked the landing point of Hank Aaron’s historic 715th home run stands in the same place it did when the stadium was on the site.
The stadium was demolished in the same week as another Atlanta sports venue, the Omni Coliseum. That arena was the former home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and the NHL’s Atlanta Flames, and was replaced by Philips Arena on the same site.”
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