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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2011 22:09:05 GMT
I confess that I had never even heard of the Six Flags New Orleans amusement park. When I was little, the only amusement park in the area was Ponchartrain Beach, which I just looked up and saw that it closed in 1983. So what could be more normal than for a new place to open sooner or later -- in this case, "later," since Jazzland did not open until 2000 and then became Six Flags in 2002. As we all know, Hurricane Katrina changed just about everything in the area in 2005. Here is a sobering report showing Six Flags as it is now, just beginning to resemble the city of Pripyat near Chernobyl. There are still rather vague plans to revive the park some day, but in the meantime.... Six Flags New Orleans |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 25, 2011 22:30:33 GMT
Wow -- it was hard to feel badly about the park's demise when looking at the absolutely fabulous photography it inspired. What a wonderful presentation.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2011 18:20:56 GMT
I know a number of people who went to the Six Flags, Post Katrina,and perhaps, even one or two of them may have taken some of these photos. It became a kind of young hippie haven for awhile and one person I know has one of the carousel horses in her garden for her children to play on.
At one point in time,the police raided the place while they were partying there and one fellow was arrested although no charges were brought against him. I believe it was done more in the spirit of making an example of him than to seriously punish these people.
I had very mixed feelings about the matter personally.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2011 21:04:48 GMT
I absolutely love to visit abandoned and forbidden places, but I have now reached the age where I am now too "reasonable" to take the risk.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2011 15:14:08 GMT
Here ~~ take a virtual visit with no risk except maybe getting the creeps.
Definitely watch this in full-screen mode and with the sound on.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2011 21:34:18 GMT
That is an excellent little film.
Nevertheless, the main infrastructure does not appear to have sustained much damage, so it would not have been a major task to put the place back together again.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 18, 2011 3:03:42 GMT
I figured it would be overwhelming for one company to repair and safety-check all those rides and attractions, but wondered why other amusement parks didn't buy them and haul them away to re-erect them at their own parks.
That place would have made a great movie set. (Oh wait, it just did!)
And I loved the theme music. Very evocative.
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Post by casimira on Jul 1, 2023 14:20:45 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2023 16:03:55 GMT
Some (perhaps foolish) company is sure to buy the site some day, even if they tear everything down (probable) and rebuild it from scratch. That area does not have any sort of local theme park and those things are now considered "necessary" for any self respecting tourist zone. Otherwise, it will happen on the Mississippi Gulf Coast sooner or later.
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