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ehbowen
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 Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject: Six Flags creates uproar in New Orleans |
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| Quote: | | NEW ORLEANS — The roller coasters are quiet and the Ferris wheel is frozen in midspin. Six Flags New Orleans, once teeming with shrieking tourists, sits empty and overgrown with weeds in the eastern part of the city — a hulking, rusting reminder of the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago. |
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Markieb
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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says Joel Waltzer, . "Passing by every day and looking at a dormant family park is tough to stomach."
Try looking at an empty field for three years! |
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randyj
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wiyoh20
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Which is worse? Passing a dormat park, or a grass field?
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AW4Ever736
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| Both are pretty bad... |
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ehbowen
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Six of one, half a dozen of the other when you know that the dormant park has been damaged beyond any reasonable hope of rebuilding. Where the stinger kicks in, though, is that SFNO was a financial sinkhole eventually destroyed by a natural disaster beyond anyone's control. Astroworld was a thriving and successful park that was sacrificed on the altar of short-term profit and loss by horrendous management.
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maradamx3
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| ehbowen wrote: | | Six of one, half a dozen of the other when you know that the dormant park has been damaged beyond any reasonable hope of rebuilding. Where the stinger kicks in, though, is that SFNO was a financial sinkhole eventually destroyed by a natural disaster beyond anyone's control. Astroworld was a thriving and successful park that was sacrificed on the altar of short-term profit and loss by horrendous management. |
Well said. Its a shame no matter how you look at it.
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