Vintage Images of The Ramblin’ Raft Race in Atlanta, GA, 1977
by Slow-moving-sloth
Vintage Images of The Ramblin’ Raft Race in Atlanta, GA, 1977
by Slow-moving-sloth
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# All photos by the brilliant Nick DeWolf – except the last four.
# More info and river debauchery at Imgur if interested.
# [https://imgur.com/gallery/take-me-to-river-vintage-images-of-ramblin-raft-race-atlanta-ga-1977-OK1WoxM](https://imgur.com/gallery/take-me-to-river-vintage-images-of-ramblin-raft-race-atlanta-ga-1977-OK1WoxM)
“Braces and Boobs” is quite the caption.
Lotta heavies out there….
These pics are awesome. We used to have a similar event where I grew up called the “Great Kennebec River Whatever Race”!
Thanks for sharing
Is this what it meant to be a “Ramblin’ Man”?
>The [Ramblin’ Raft Race](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Raft_Race) was an annual Memorial Day weekend [raft race](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafting) on the [Chattahoochee River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee_River) in [Atlanta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta) that lasted from 1969 to 1980. At its peak, more than 300,000 rafters partook in the race.
That’s a lot of rafters.
“The Coke Line Special” is perhaps a reference to the 1968 country western song [“The Heartline Special”](https://youtu.be/hdOOvYNbigM?si=ovQmNewElvy0KoZF) about a gun-slinging preacher.
Can’t help but notice an general lack of POC, I always thought Atlanta was a leading city during the Civil Rights Movement. By 1977 I would have thought that it would be less segregated.
How many of those beer cans ended up in the river?
And, of course, they’re all in their sixties and seventies now. Probably reminiscing about those relatively care-free days. Just three years after Nixon resigned. Two years after Saigon fell. Jimmy Carter had been inaugurated a few months before. Reagan Era was less than five years away.
Elvis died that August.
The 70s seem wild man and wild how old everyone on those photos are today. Like dayum time flies man
If “white privilege” was a watersport.
Not a single fatty