re: World's Fair 1984 New Orleans

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I was 10, went just about every weekend, what do you want to know?

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Do you remember the Canadian IMAX thing?

I was 24 when I went. German beer garden was great.

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the Canadian IMAX thing?

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Yeah, something like that

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the shrunken head in Peru exhibit?

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I definitely remember that

I was there, age 15 and part of a church group. We had a good time. Saw lots of good music, but not for any length of time because we were all underage.

It was the fair to end all fairs, literally. Never had another one in the U.S. When it opened in May, construction wasn't even finished, and the fair almost closed prematurely due to low attendance.

While it was a huge financial failure, its lasting legacy was the convention center and the modern day warehouse district, all vitally important now. That New Orleans hit the skids by the late 80s was due more to the crack cocaine epidemic and national economic factors unrelated to what was a relatively small, short fair by world's fair standards.

I don’t remember anything about the World’s Fair even though I was 16 years old living in Baton Rouge. I did have a Louisiana license plate on my car that had a 1984 Worlds Fair logo.

I was there with the family. Rode the gondola lift across the river. That was cool.

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I was 19 that year

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Spent a lot of nights at the bars.

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Sounds like my summer when I was 19. Had a buddy that used to pass out on the kangaroo at Sheila's almost every week after the Sheiks played there.

I was 16 and would go with my older brother at night to the Fulton St music clubs to watch the break-dancing.

Good times.