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Anyone here ride the MART during the New Orleans World Fair?
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:29 pm
For those who don't know- The Mississippi Aerial River Transit, or simply MART, was a gondola lift transport system spanning the Mississippi River. The Worlds Fair thread had me looking on Wiki about the NO Fair and I saw this.
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Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:30 pm to BamaHater
I was only like 5 at the time, but I distinctly remember riding it a few times. It was awesome.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:30 pm to BamaHater
I rode it.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:30 pm to BamaHater
was there a pic?
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:31 pm to Navajo61490
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:31 pm to BamaHater
I rode that bitch ALONE!!!
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:31 pm to BamaHater
I road it twice round trip, once during the day and once a night.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:32 pm to BamaHater
i rode it....once , that fricker was scary as hell. creeping across the river 100 or so ft in the air in a little box the size of a smart car.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:33 pm to BamaHater
I did. It was fun when I had flatulence.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:33 pm to BamaHater
I was in fifth grade, and I remember one of my teachers talking about how we really needed to get our parents to take us because we would probably never have an event like that so close to home again.
My parents would not take me.
My parents would not take me.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:33 pm to BamaHater
I rode it a bunch, lived in Algiers.
Never got a chance to do this, was too young, but people used to line up so they could be in the gondola when they did the nightly fireworks.
Never got a chance to do this, was too young, but people used to line up so they could be in the gondola when they did the nightly fireworks.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:34 pm to BamaHater
Yep and it was scary as hell as a kid. It was there for a while until the Coast Guard shut it down in the early 90's.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:35 pm to BamaHater
I rode it with my girlfriend. We parked on the West Bank and rode it into the fair. Scared her so bad she made me hire a taxi to get back to my car.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:35 pm to MightyYat
remember the high wire guy trying to walk that cable across the river? made it like 10 ft. 
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:35 pm to MightyYat
Didn't it stay in operation even after the Fair, for a little while?
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:37 pm to BamaHater
rode it
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:37 pm to LSUTygerFan
quote:
that fricker was scary as hell. creeping across the river 100 or so ft in the air in a little box the size of a smart car.
My one trip, my friends kept trying to open the fricking door, since they knew I am afraid of heights. Damn thing would open about a foot and a half wide. Scared the shite out of me.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:37 pm to BamaHater
Yeah, I was on it one night for the fireworks show. You could look down and see the fireworks below you.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:38 pm to Deep Purple Haze
The MART was awesome....wish they kept it around.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:41 pm to GeauxColonels
A lady that used to work for me claims to have had intercourse on it.
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