Oglethorpe Plaza Shopping Center, in much better days. About the only two tenants around today are Citi Trends and - 40 years later - Roses. Mickey D's is still there. Sonny's BBQ is long gone; building sits abandoned.

1981 captures a nicer time for this part of Albany -- wife said once the Firestone Tire plant closed in the '80s the area went downhill.

The old Sonny's is now Nolan's Hardware and Home Remodeling.