re: The Brief Rise and Steep Fall of a New Orleans Amusement Park

no smoking chimp no care..

“Welcome to Jazzland, where roving gangs are no longer a problem!”

Parts of Deepwater Horizon were filmed there.....

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It actually was a pretty fun park at the end.

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Park was built by one company who sold it the day the park opened as the owner was having financial issues. The second company was crap and sold it after like two years to Six Flags. Took sone time for Six Flags to make a difference but by summer 2025 it was rolling along well.

We had season passes in 2003-2005 and in 2003 used them at AstroWorld.

Park was underinsured and Six Flags didn’t want to pay a second time for the improvements they just made, and with the entire future of the area in doubt, they just walked away.

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Perfect for a haunted/Halloween venue once a year

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Spirit Halloween needs to step up to the plate

It was a nice park except for the location unfortunately.

That was a great wooden coaster. Very similar to the Texas Cyclone at Astroworld.

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For the moment, though, the battered amusement park still stands. Even when I photographed it in 2016, it was covered in spray paint and battered by vandals. As I fought through the underbrush and thorns, I was aware I was in a gravesite of sorts. The part of the park that had once stood as a beacon for the nebulous concept of fun was fading into the weeds, replaced by a far more visceral representation of despair.

Outsiders can question the wisdom of trusting levees and building below sea level, or even rebuilding on a site ravaged by one of the costliest and deadliest disasters in modern American history. But we all live below sea level in one way or another. The stability of everyone’s life is perched precariously atop a series of factors we don’t often know or control. On a long enough timeline, everyone’s luck runs out. True, most of our personal catastrophes aren’t so spectacular, but if we survive them, we have to rebuild sooner or later.

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i cannot imagine the pretentious levels of douchebaggery that anyone who would write something like this must have. good grief.

The Batman rollercoaster was grear

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Six Flags made some decent improvements. The Batman roller coaster was pretty good

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Fun fact, it was stripped down, painted and moved to San Antonio six flags. It’s the Goliath roller coaster there since they already had a Batman themed one already. Rode it a couple years ago. One of the few they were actually able to salvage.