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Remember When, Chattanooga? Gen Z tykes: Where are they now?

Chattanooga Times Free Press archive photo / Sitting with her mother, Stacy Tapp, 20 years ago, then-5-year-old Mattie Tapp, center, reaches out to grab confetti as it falls on a crowd celebrating New Year's Eve at the Creative Discovery Museum. Chattanooga Times Free Press archive photo / Sitting with her mother, Stacy Tapp, 20 years ago, then-5-year-old Mattie Tapp, center, reaches out to grab confetti as it falls on a crowd celebrating New Year's Eve at the Creative Discovery Museum.

By Mark Kennedy January 16, 2026 2 min read

Sometimes it’s fun to take an old photo and ponder: Where in the world are those people today?

Browsing through the Chattanooga Times Free Press photo archives this week, we came across the accompanying photograph of a New Year’s Eve celebration at the Creative Discovery Museum 20 years ago.

Extrapolating things out, the adults in the photograph are probably be in their 40s or 50s today and the children are in their mid-20s — maybe even parents themselves, by now.

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