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re: On this day in 1984, the New Orleans World’s Fair opened
Posted on 5/13/23 at 11:11 pm to BRTigerexpat
Posted on 5/13/23 at 11:11 pm to BRTigerexpat
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Here’s a list of acts for the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans.
Worked there in college. Awesome time.
Among others, saw the GoGo's, INXS, & The Fixx....
The final night was an all night free party for employees-. Bars all lost liquor licenses at midnight so free booze since they had to dump it.
Crazy party at Aqua-Cade that had drunk girls jumping off high dive...
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Posted on 5/13/23 at 11:11 pm to BRTigerexpat
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Here’s a list of acts for the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans.
Worked there in college. Awesome time.
Among others, saw the GoGo's, INXS, & The Fixx....
The final night was an all night free party for employees-. Bars all lost liquor licenses at midnight so free booze since they had to dump it.
Crazy party at Aqua-Cade that had drunk girls jumping off high dive...
Posted on 5/13/23 at 11:13 pm to Bourre
I remember riding the gondola across. That's literally all I remember.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 11:25 pm to Bourre
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This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 5/14/23 at 1:31 am to Reservoir dawg
I was 4 at the time and have very few memories. Riding the gondola and seeing the swinging pirate ship I guess being the most distinct. Wasn’t there an oil rig exhibit as well?
Posted on 5/14/23 at 2:05 am to NWHoustonTiger
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Looking back, albeit with imperfect recollection, I wonder if the early-to-mid-80s was the pinnacle of New Orleans life
New Orleans was on a good run from the 1950s through the 1970s. Was actually in competition with Houston as an energy giant. The economic decline began in the 1980s but folks weren’t really noticing it because of the Poydras corridor high rise projects. It seemed like people had a sense of civic pride about New Orleans back then, but the election of Dutch and the police strike changed a lot of viewpoints and Jefferson Parish began being promoted as the promised land by people who 10 years earlier were calling it the sticks. You had Harry Lee in the mid 80s talking about stopping blacks in JP - looking back I thought that would have been in the 1990s. At least in my memory, things started unraveling in New Orleans at the beginning of the 1980s and then the bottom really dropped out in the 1990s because of crime and the continued migration of jobs.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 5:26 am to Bourre
how the mighty have fallen
Posted on 5/14/23 at 5:33 am to Bourre
My dance team performed 3 times one Saturday. I ate a spearmint snowball between the 2nd and 3rd performances and vomited green off the side of the stage.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:04 am to Chad504boy
Peak nola
—well except for the day before the Civil War began
—well except for the day before the Civil War began
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:22 am to Eightballjacket
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At least in my memory, things started unraveling in New Orleans at the beginning of the 1980s and then the bottom really dropped out in the 1990s because of crime and the continued migration of jobs.
The World’s Fair was not so much the pinnacle, but sort of the last hurrah for New Orleans as an actual functional relevant American city.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:16 pm to TJG210
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was 4 at the time and have very few memories. Riding the gondola and seeing the swinging pirate ship I guess being the most distinct. Wasn’t there an oil rig exhibit as well?
Sounds right for the time. I was only 7.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:37 pm to Bourre
Only world's fair to die before it's run was finished. No doubt many politicians made their bones with this scam.
This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:43 pm to Hangover Haven
Shelia’s was a fun place
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:12 pm to Bourre
I went
One thing I remember as a 8yr old kid was eating Popeyes at 3 o’clock in New Orleans
One thing I remember as a 8yr old kid was eating Popeyes at 3 o’clock in New Orleans
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:53 pm to Locoguan0
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Only world's fair to die before it's run was finished.
WRONG.
Where did you get that idea? Fair was scheduled to run from May 12 to November 11 (as per the ads and artwork in the OP) and it DID run that entire length of time. I know; I worked there from opening day to closing night.
And it was like a previous poster said, a fun last day for us. We were working in a official gift/souvenir store right across from the space shuttle. We all brought booze in that day (mostly wine) and drank all day while ringing up marked down souvenirs.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 5:01 am to Bourre
This is where my wife and I went for our honeymoon.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 6:47 am to LSUGrrrl
quote:Yawn.
My dance team performed 3 times one Saturday. I ate a spearmint snowball between the 2nd and 3rd performances and vomited green off the side of the stage.
Not the first or last time a dancer threw up in NOLA and got right back up on the horse again.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 8:35 am to LSUGrrrl
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I ate a spearmint snowball between the 2nd and 3rd performances and vomited green.
Is that what the NO priests were calling it back then??
Posted on 5/16/23 at 8:57 am to Smeg
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Didn't the Gondolas break more that once? Leaving people stranded while suspended over the river? Maybe it was just 30 minutes or so, but I want to say I heard it was hours?
I went several times, and every time the gondola ride wasn't operating due to some issue. Reminded me of the McDonalds shake machines.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 9:27 am to Chrome
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German beer garden for the win.
yep, visited several times.
road the gondola across the river.....once. frick that thing!
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