Comments on: Abandoned: Six Flags New Orleans

By: snus

snus — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:50:53 +0000

i was there on a mission trip and its possible for anybody to enter the park the fence was open

By: Vi

Vi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:33:31 +0000

I remember going to Jazz land when i was a kid,
and it was pretty amazing for me.
Today i was over in new orleans and i remembered it and my old
memories that i had there, soon after we passed it in the car.
It was so sad to see what had become of it,
the gates were completly blown off.
But i plan to return there once i get out of high school.
Its kind of a bucket list thing for me.

By: nate

nate — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:10:18 +0000

graffiti photos???

By: Bill Simpson in Slidell

Bill Simpson in Slidell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:56:11 +0000

Since this is the official abandoned stuff website, and since some people are curious about the abandoned interchanges on Interstate 10 in East New Orleans, I’ll tell you the story of an entire phantom city. The two interchanges east of the Michoud exit were originally intended to serve a giant development called ‘New Town in Town’. The whole area was once owned by a wealthy Texas oil family. The story goes, that they had enough political connections to President Lyndon Baines Johnson to get the interchanges built in the 1960’s, so as to increase the value of their vacant property. The City of New Orleans got Federal funds to create a plan for the development of the entire swampy area. Then, with the election of Republican Presidents, Louisiana’s enormous Democratic Party political power in Washington began to wane. Federal money could never be obtained to build the infrastructure, so the site just sat there for decades. But development crept toward it. Eventually, the owners sold, or donated the land to the Federal Government, and it became the Bayou Savage National Wildlife Refuge. While working for the New Orleans Planning Commission 20 years before the land was transferred, I did a preliminary design for an airport, which would have covered the entire area. I could just fit two parallel runways 5,000 feet apart in the marsh. I put another runway along US Highway 11. My secret motive was to prevent residential development while saving as much of the wetlands as I could. I knew that development of the area would put way too many people at risk from potential hurricane flooding. Luckily, the mayor, who liked the plan, was about to leave office and wasn’t interested in starting the project near the end of his term. The ‘New Town in Town’ plan can probably be found in the archives of the Main Branch of the New Orleans Public Library. The Times Picayune Newspaper archives might have some articles about it. After Katrina, I shutter to think of what would have happened, had the area been developed when the Federal levees failed. That is the true story of the abandoned interchanges.

By: Bill Simpson in Slidell

Bill Simpson in Slidell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:13:13 +0000

Southern Star Amusements failed to provide the needed funds ($500,000) to sell bonds at the State Bond Commission meeting today, so their planned redevelopment of the Park may be dead. Stay tuned.

By: mike jones

mike jones — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:37:15 +0000

I’LL BUY IT$$$$$

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:05:09 +0000

I went there just a couple of months before it hit, and it’s so weird to see it like that.

By: The Skeleton Key

The Skeleton Key — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:02:44 +0000

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By: N'Keishi

N'Keishi — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:57:19 +0000

i sorry 4 wat hurricane katrina did to yall beautiful state i wish i could help but im only 13 and my prayers go out to all of you dat lost your homes

By: Stang5_0

Stang5_0 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:02:30 +0000

Time for a road trip to Georgia for some more Six Flags?

wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/floods.rain.georgia.2.1200596.html

Let’s do it!