re: Six Flags Nola pictures: 10 years later

I had to do a double take and I'm still not sure, I feel like it's fake but it's certainly not impossible for one to get in there. That whole area is swamp

not history, re-use. Some rides were dismantled and reused. Rollercoasters can be taken apart and re-assembled.

It looks real as hell but look how high it's sitting out of the water. Gotta be fake.

Eta: Maybe it's sitting on something or the water isn't as deep as it looks. Cause that head looks real

I cant decide either man

I'm going with fake, the snout looks like it's plastic

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Jazzland will forever hold a special place in my heart. It was where I got my first hand job.

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Did the young man have soft hands?

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they filmed some of Jurassic World over there.

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yep

Statues are the first priority baw

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City or New Orleans owns that land, you know how that goes.

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They got statues to worry about, no time for Six Flags.

shite is crazy man. I remember going there and having some fun times there as a teenager especially when relatives are in town.

Are they just going to leave it like that forever or just tear it down and sling shite on top of it?

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They didn't learn the lesson of the giant mall and ice rink.

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Lake Forest plaza was there before the area went to shite. New Orleans East was a decent place to live in the 70's.

The mall thrived until about the late 1980s when the economic downturn of southern Louisiana after the "oil bust" took an especially heavy toll on New Orleans East. Through the 1990s, as the neighborhoods around it deteriorated and became unsafe, the mall felt the repercussions. Originally New Orleans East was an upper/middle-class neighborhood with lots of well-heeled subdivisions and several large upscale apartment complexes. When the economy hit the skids in the 1980s with the loss of the oil business, New Orleans East became less affluent and much more section eight. Many of the well-heeled residents fled to the safer confines of the North Shore/Slidell area, which in its boom wound up with its own mall, (North Shore Square), which had many of the same anchors and mall stores as Lake Forest. Sears was the first large anchor to close shop at the Plaza. Despite a major renovation in the late 1980s which replaced the by now drab brown, earth tone tiling to a generic white/aqua color scheme, as well as removed the ice rink, it was too late to save Lake Forest. White flight to Jefferson Parish bolstered Lake Forest's competitor Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie, LA in the battle for wealthier patrons, although New Orleans East (where Lake Forest was located) had a sizable black lower class population at the time.