#six flags New Orleans

[codyolajuwan]

Six Flags, New Orleans. Abandoned since Katrina. I was immediately asked to leave by security after taking this.

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Jazzland/Six Flags New Orleans "A Six Flags site in New Orleans which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The brackish tide stayed stagnant in the park for weeks on end and destroyed 80% of the park's equipment, leaving behind muddy clowns, smashed mermaids, and Mardi Gras figures stuck in an apocalyptic freeze-frame. The Batman coaster might still work though, it was on an elevated platform that stayed above water."

Chippewa Lake Park "Chippewa Lake Park is an abandoned amusement park located in Chippewa Lake, Ohio, Medina County. It operated from 1878 through 1978, after the final owner, Continental Business Enterprises closed it due to a lack of attendance. The rides and structures were left largely untouched and unmaintained for over 45 years.

By the 2000s, large trees began growing through rides like the roller coaster and Ferris Wheel, and several buildings had collapsed or been damaged by the effects of the elements. All the park's structures rusted and rotted beyond repair.

About 4pm on Thursday, June 13, 2002, the ballroom burned down.

By 2008, several other buildings had suffered the ballroom's fate, including the hotel, arcade, Fun House, peanut stand, and maintenance building, all of which had been damaged or destroyed by fire. Other rides and structures still stood, in various states of disrepair. These included the roller coaster, the Wild Mouse, the Little Dipper, the Tumble Bug, and the frames of the Ferris Wheel and Flying Cages. Most other buildings across the park were in various states of collapse due to 30 years of neglect by this time.

On September 9, 2008, Chippewa Partners LLC announced plans for a development on the site called "Chippewa Landing" which was planned to include a hotel and spa, fitness center, restaurants, a conference and music center, small shops, and other entertainment venues, that was expected to be completed sometime in 2010. The site's structures, trees, and debris were being demolished and removed as of April 5, 2009, and the site was expected to be redeveloped after the completion of the work… but in April 18, 2012, the Chippewa Partners LLC's aforementioned plans for the site were announced to have been scrapped due to a lawsuit, and the property went into foreclosure. In August 2012, an attempt to auction off the property failed, and foliage started to reclaim the park again.

As of January 2023, the Ferris Wheel, the Little Dipper, the Flying Cages, and the Tumble Bug are still standing, along with sections of the train track and the remains of the ballroom and other structures. The Tumble Bug cars were removed and set aside, including one outside the fence, along with the gear lift mechanism to the roller coaster and some barrels."

[realautumnsounds]

Some photos I took while exploring the abandoned Six Flags park in New Orleans on my summer tour. I’ve got a map with instructions on how to get in but I’ve heard they’ve installed cameras in recent months so it might not be worth it now.

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

Thirteen years ago, while Stanis was visiting me in New Orleans, I told him about a video I had seen about the Six Flags that got abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. We decided to go out there to explore the grounds. The place was as eerie as it seemed in that video. We walked all over it and I wanted a souvenir, so we pulled down the menu sign from one of the cafes. I've been storing it in Nene's attic for 13 years and finally pulled it down when I was up there getting down her Christmas decorations the other day.

I worried Mom wouldn't like it and wouldn't hang it up, but she cleaned it up and put it in the kitchen today, which I'm stoked about.

I also took a large, graffitied map from the log ride that I thought would make a cool piece of art, but it hasn't fared as well.

Grandpa & Tutu flew back into town this afternoon. Mom will go with them in the morning to meet the inspector at the house they made an offer on.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 12.5.2023 - 5.37pm.

[ojirojika]

six flags new orleans - jason lanier

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was part of a volunteer cat rescue group, and we all took a field trip to the abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans. Me and 3 friends tried getting on top of a roller coaster, but my mom showed up and yelled at us so we all left the park.

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[bodybybane]

New Orleans' Six Flags, abandoned since Hurricane Katrina, to be demolished https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2024/08/29/six-flags-theme-park-abandoned-katrina-demolition-starting-september

[abandonedography]

The Six Flags amusement park near New Orleans, closed since Hurricane Katrina, 2005

By Henk Van Rensbergen

[fymo-blogs]

A stimboard of the abandoned theme park six flags new Orleans?

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Abandoned Six Flags stimboard

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[physalian]

“Cheery Music Over An Un-Cheery Scene” speaks to my soul

This isn’t even writing advice but I’ve been binge watching Bright Sun Films’ ‘Abandoned’ series on YouTube (go support his free documentary Closed for Storm about the New Orleans Six Flags) and sometimes he’ll score the opening of his videos with the 70s, 80s, 90s advertisement jingles set over the desolate skeletons of the hotels, businesses, malls, and theme parks these places used to be and I cannot quantify how badly I wish I could achieve the “cheery music over a deeply un-cheery vista” trope in a book.

I’m talking the Buy n’ Large jingle and Hello Dolly belting "Listen Barnaby!" as the camera pans down to a dust-brown Earth, and over trash-cube skyscrapers in Wall-E. Any time “Spirit in the Sky” is used over a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Somber, scene-fitting music on high strings and adagios is all well and good, but the tinny, cheesy vocal tracks from a bygone era we all know, playing over the bygone era we ourselves live in, is a whole ‘nother level.

If I was going to turn this into writing advice, here’s my piece: This works so well because what we see and what we hear are not supposed to go together, emphasizing the power of the combined details. It’s why adjectives are so misused and misunderstood. “She smiled happily” is a useless adjective, as most smiles are happy, but “she smiled woefully” describes a much more intriguing expression. The “woefully” is absolutely necessary to picture the smile, where “happily” is redundant.

This trope will never die, especially as we live to see Wall-E less and less as a warning and more an inevitability. That ‘Abandoned’ series has over 70 episodes all across the US, Canada, and beyond, and it’s still going strong. Go watch it! And then Wall-E!

[chronicangel]

I actually think it would be really funny if Gotham had a reputation for being like, a really cool and fun place that you want to go.

Like I know the running gag in fandom (and a little bit in comics, too) is that Gotham is a cesspit, famed for its insane vigilantes and impossibly high rates of violent crime, but when I think about real-life cities with very high crime rates and sort of a smoggy aesthetic, they are often places that people want to go.

Like, New Orleans is in the top ten cities in the world for homicide rates according to the data from 2022 (all the other 10 are in Mexico, and I can't speak as much to them because I've never been, but I at least recognize Tijuana, which is #5, as a place other people seem to refer to as a tourist destination for Americans), and yet there is a very real and very large crowd of people fully devoted to going there every year for Mardi Gras. I know multiple people who fantasize about living in the French Quarter, and when my grandparents took me there once as a teenager, I remember driving around with my grandmother to look at all the old, pretty buildings.

People famously think of New York City as a dangerous city with high crime rates (although the last few years have really reflected those crime rates going down), and yet it is also one top 10 of the most popular cities in not only the US but the world for tourism. My Dad lived in upstate New York from 2021 until this year, and just moved to North Jersey (significantly closer to the city), and for a while, he would rent a hotel in Times Square for a weekend every time I visited. If a band or artist is touring the US, it would practically be a crime to skip NYC, and there are the huge drawing forces of tourist destinations like the Statue of Liberty and Broadway. In fact, I lived halfway across the country from NYC and I still knew people who went on high school field trips there with their theatre programs.

I grew up in a college town in Southwest Missouri, and for most of my young adult life, I must have gone to St. Louis at least a half-dozen times a year. We went on a field trip to Six Flags when I was in 8th grade. I took a mini-vacation there in July 2023 where I paid for an Airbnb for a week and went to the zoo three or four days in a row so I could really take my time with it. I went on a day-trip in May of this year with a friend from work where we walked around the city to the tune of 19,000 steps. And all of that despite the fact that I spent my entire life hearing about the gang violence permeating the city, and the fact that St. Louis was ranked as the most dangerous city in the United States for several years in my lifetime.

I just moved to Philadelphia, which is in the top 50 cities in the world for homicide rates (see the link on New Orleans), because I've been coming here since I was a teenager and it's always been a home away from home to me. And when I went on my first walk around the neighborhood after moving here, I proudly bragged to my friends about how I had only been catcalled five times, two of which were by the same dude (some guy on my block who yelled at me at the beginning and the end of my walk) and one of which was by a child, so statistically that was a pretty good walk.

My point with all of this is that there are lots of very dangerous places in the world that people still idolize and want to go to. Within the lore of DC Comics, Gotham is a city that was first established in the early 17th century, with beautiful Gothic architecture and the Delaware Bay framing its edges. It would also be the largest city in New Jersey by a long shot, and I can imagine that with the real-world affectionate rivalry between New York and Jersey, citizens of the state would loudly defend Gotham as the superior city to NYC, cesspit or no (the same way that Missourians will hold Kansas City over Kansas' head until the end of time, or until they give back what's rightfully ours).

I imagine people from all sorts of places and all walks of life would go on two-week trips to Gotham during summer vacation to see whatever iconic landmarks stuck out to them, or maybe even to try to catch a glimpse of Batman and the other famous vigilantes-- I think if I heard that there was a vigilante in one of the big cities only a few hours away from my hometown, I probably would have been drawn to it like a magnet the second I was old enough to decide where to spend my breaks.

Also, just looking at it realistically, most of Gotham's crime happens at night and in very specific parts of the city-- which is also true of big cities in the real world. So it's extremely likely that a tourist could spend weeks or even months in Gotham and still never be directly subject to the sort of crime that Batman and Robin and whoever else might be there at the time are dealing with. I can easily imagine plenty of folks from Metropolis deciding to take a day trip to Gotham, which is just across the bay and would logically only take a couple hours tops to get to (assuming there's an operational ferry, and why wouldn't there be?), walking around the city looking at gargoyles and trying famous restaurants, and then packing on up and going back to Metropolis to say, "Yeah, people talk a big talk, but I've been to Gotham and it really isn't that scary."

You know, the way we all do with real cities.

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End-of-the-World's Fair Round 1

Nara Dreamland vs. Xanadu: House of the Future

Hồ Thuỷ Tiên vs. Consonno

Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park vs. Dinosaur Mini Golf Ruins

Pripyat Amusement Park vs. Discovery Island

Jazzland/Six Flags New Orleans vs. Chippewa Lake Park

Taman Festival vs. Cementland

Rock-A-Hoola Waterpark vs. Trinity Loop

Yongma Land vs. Crinkley Bottom/Blobbyland

[crippled-peeper]

I always find it funny when ppl think abandoned places are edgy and scary and cool. the first theme park I ever went to as a young child was the six flags in New Orleans. That shit is haunted. Leave it alone

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

I didn't take a photo today, so I went digging in the archives and found this one from 13 years ago. I looked for this photo recently and couldn't find it because I thought I took it when Stanis and I first visited the abandoned Six Flags when he came down in 2010. I forgot we went back in 2011. That cafe menu he's pulling down now sits displayed in our kitchen. I forgot there were more menus. I wish we would have gotten them all.

Dad.

New Orleans, Louisiana. 3.3.2011 - 1.43pm.

[ojirojika]

six flags new orleans - jason lanier