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By: Erich

Erich — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:20:07 +0000

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By: Krist

Krist — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:53:24 +0000

thanks for posting these pics. i am tempted to try and sneak on next time i am back in NOLA. I have lived in dallas since ‘06 and just noticed that the six flags website still has Jazzland listed on their national site. So, i started looking for info. guess it is closed for good. as for the park, it was hot with no shade but i still wish it could have worked out.

By: THISGUYJONES

THISGUYJONES — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:00:22 +0000

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-26-sixflags_N.htm

Here is a link to an update about the park. The company claims it was losing money before Katrina. Doesn’t sound like it will re-open with 6 Flags as the owner.

By: Philip R.

Philip R. — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:55:41 +0000

I hear talk of Southern South Amusment coming in and adding new rides and restoring the ones still standing including Mega Zeph. I hope this is true

By: Jonathan G

Jonathan G — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:56:17 +0000

I had a season pass every year ever since it opened as Jazzland in 2000. The park was always pretty much abandoned before the storm due to lack of attendance of the obvious problems and corruption. This is not the first time New Orleans and Louisiana showed its lack of business skills because had their been better management and a less corrupt Louisiana government, the park could have been very successful and still could have been opened today. I live around the area of Six Flags in New Orleans East and drive around Six Flags everyday wanting to cry because most of my childhood was lived there and is now washed away with the rest of the park. I used to go their pretty much everyday with my group of friends.

By: Derik

Derik — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:15:08 +0000

The park did not fail prior to Katrina, the company that originally built the park failed and it was sold, the park suffered for two years with false advertisement stating new additions and that company went under and Six Flags came in and pumped 25 million into it. The park was profitable at the time Katrina hit and SF was planning additional areas and a water park. The only reasons its not been rebuilt is because Sixflags is going under, there battle with the insurance companies and the economy. This park never had a chance!!!

By: Tasha

Tasha — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:48:28 +0000

My children & I had a season pass to the park two or three summers pre-K (Katrina). We have great memories of the park and found your pictures to be beautiful and bitter sweet. They are now teenagers being raised in “regular” America. I am so glad they were born in N.O. and that we were blessed to live there as long as we did. Something in New Orleans mismanaged ? Yes. Boring? Never.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:43:31 +0000

The park never had attendace that it needed to operate, and always battled the heat and not enough shade.

With Six Flags having lots of problems of its own in recent years it has no intention of reopening the park. Some independant operator talked about reopening it, but I think they have backed off plans to do anything with it.

The city owns most of the land, and has talked about building a sports complex similar to the wide world of sports in disneyland.

I personally think that the park will sit abandoned for a long time to come. its a real shame this couldn’t have been a better park

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