Yamaha honors 20th anniversary of YFZ450R at Georgia manufacturing plant

My parents attended the opening ceremony of this facility in Newnan GA. I still have some items from that event.

https://powersportsbusiness.com/lat...a-outdoor-access-initiative-grants-exceed-1m/

 

Yamaha opened this plant in the later half of the 1980's when I was still working for them, in the north east region.
I might have stuck around there, if I'd known they were going to move the powersports division to Kennesaw. I wasn't keen on moving to the Cypress vicinity, like several of my co-worker friends did.

 

October 1988. Dang, 36 years ago. Time flies!

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/10/24/Yamaha-opens-golf-cart-plant-in-Georgia/6028593668800/