For those that remember those days in Atlanta.
So is Orange Crush just Freaknik reincarnated?
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As someone who went to both back in the day and currently lives outside of Savannah, it’s not even close.
My ex-wife and I had an anniversary party at a midtown pub on the first freaknik. Had no idea what we were in store for. Everybody, including us was waaay late. All our guests persevered and made it and we had a nice party, albeit 2 hours late. Getting home was also insane.
Nothing to do with Freaknik, but the funniest part of all was my ex had decided to go commando with a dress on. She got pretty drunk and proceeded to fall off of a bar stool and gave our friends and relatives a view that they will never forget.
We have rules!,,,,,
I didn't know either.
Per google
“The Orange Crush beach party is rooted in celebrating the student culture of Savannah State University and the Southeast's other historically Black colleges and universities.”
Looks like it’s more of the Black Frat Beach.
My oldest daughter was born 5/6/98 and I recall being very concerned about getting from Newnan to Atlanta (formerly Georgia Baptist / Atlanta Medical) hospital during Freaknick. I also hear that Orange Crush is quite to mess in shutting down the one way in / out from Tybee to Savannah.
My dad once got caught in freaknik because he didn’t know what was going on and he was in traffic for hours. Said people were naked and fking on top of cars.
So just another Friday night in Atlanta.
Freaknik was like ‘93-‘95. Didn’t think it was a thing in ‘98. I worked with a lady at the time who was in her late 20s/early 30s with a kid and she went down the and got all involved with Freaknik and was sitting on top of a moving car and got thrown off and got hurt fairly badly. Missed a week of work at least. I was like 23 at the time wondering what in the world she was thinking considering she was a mom and all.
No. It peaked (in terms of craziness) in the 96-98 year range. APD ended it in 1999.
Foggy memory
it was something to forget imo.
Absolutely!!Foggy memory
I witnessed Freaknik up close, unfortunately. My girlfriend lived in Atlanta at the time. Some of the most disgusting behavior I've ever seen in my life.
Freaknik was an embarrassment to the city of Atlanta, which was already a shitty place to begin with
Orange Crush was going on at the same time that Freaknik was going on. Orange Crush was just smaller, and less known. Freaknik peaked in like 92-95 (started in the early 80’s though), by 96 Atlanta had gotten sick of it and started screwing with the traffic patterns ITP and trapped us all on 285, so we started going to Daytona for BCWOTB. Went there until about 98, and then I personally hung it up. There’s a BCWOTB in Virginia Beach as well. Good times!! 😊😊
We still have LEAFnik every fall here in North Georgia.
I hope that Tybee opened up some twerk free zones for the full-time residents.
I worked downtown and the first year I had to take a trip to a job site in Athens and escaped early and missed it, the next year it was like a hurricane was heading toward Atlanta and the town was empty by noon.
I remember the traffic going thru Cobb on 75 was like being stuck in the middle of a Nascar race.
I was caught in the I-20 bumper to bumper traffic during freaknik one year. Just ahead was a van with 2 idiots on top dancing and having a great time. Eventually, the traffic opened up and everyone quickly sped up to normal 65+MPH....incuding that van.
Their eyes got huge as pie plates and they held on for dear life. Not sure if they survived but they drove for while with those guys on top.
This.
Wild scenes from spring break gathering along Savannah beach
Video from this year's Orange Crush event showed the moment a vicious fight broke out on the Savannah beach's boardwalk. Other video revealed how much litter had been left on the shore.
Black College Weekend On the Beach….sorry. Started in the 70’s/80’s.
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