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Riverbend Apartments was an infamous 600-unit apartment complex located in suburban
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Hoochie Koo! Atlanta's Riverbend Apartments
{{Atlanta landmarks Residential buildings in Atlanta Landmarks in Atlanta Apartment buildings in Georgia (U.S. state)
Riverbend Apartments was an infamous 600-unit apartment complex located in suburban Atlanta, Georgia
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, off Interstate 285. It has been described as Atlanta's most notorious singles complex.Hoochie Koo!/ref> The apartment complex was also the plot setting for part of the 2002 film ''
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''.
History
Located inCumberland
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district of Atlanta, Riverbend got its name from the fact that it overlooked a bend in the Chattahoochee River
The Chattahoochee River forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida - Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chatta ...
. Developed by Crow, Pope & Land Enterprises in the early 1970s, Riverbend was one of the 1970s Atlanta's most notorious landmarks of sexual hedonism. It was named by ''Playboy
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'' as ground zero of the Sexual Revolution
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, due to its clubhouse keg
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Wooden kegs made by a cooper were used to transport nails, gunpowder, and a variety of liquids.
A keg is normally now constructed of stainless steel, although aluminium can be used if it is coated with plastic on th ...
gers and nude pool parties.
By the late 1970s, laws that prohibited "no-children-allowed" apartments were passed, and the singles scene shifted elsewhere as residents married or moved to newer complexes. It has since been redesigned, and is now known as "Walton on the Chattahoochee."
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Hoochie Koo! Atlanta's Riverbend Apartments
{{Atlanta landmarks Residential buildings in Atlanta Landmarks in Atlanta Apartment buildings in Georgia (U.S. state)