I really can’t believe how relaxed Jazzland was about loose articles. That is insane to me. With all the recent accidents with flying phones, that would never happen anymore. I’m glad you guys got to visit this park before it got hit by Katrina.
Yes, things were much different back then. Cameras were much larger, yet there weren't nearly the same amount of accident reports that you see today. I remember taking my first color VHS camcorder, with a separate recording deck, on coasters. No one blinked an eye. I loved the relaxed camera policies parks had back then.
Well, I mean everyone didn’t always have expensive phones that would fly out of their pocket, so loose article policies didn’t really need to be there I guess. Wild
I know Six Flags was trying to improve shading before the park closed. However, I would have loved some trees back when this was recorded as there was zero shade. It was incredibly hot and muggy.
This is incredible footage Sean, thank you for sharing it. I've always enjoyed the coordinated "whoa!!"s on the Muskrat Scrambler POV. I've been fascinated with this park and its brief history for ten years now, and there is very little footage available of the park before the Six Flags rebrand. It really did look like a charming place with friendly staff, and Mega Zeph could be a top ten wooden coaster if it was still running today. This place deserved time to grow and receive new attractions, but Katrina had other plans. I'm just glad we have videos like this that show us what a fun place it was for the short time it was around.
It really was a fun place. I looked forward to visiting again, but that never happened. I used to help Keith McVeen with the audio in his early animations he did for parks. He would ask if I had in my collection, or if I could go to a park and record some coaster sounds for animations he was working on. For instance, he asked me to record the sounds of Power Tower so he could use that audio in the official animation for Six Flags Over Texas's version of the ride, He had asked if I had any sounds of a mouse coaster and people enjoying the ride. I told him it was goofy beforehand but did send him the audio of the collective whoas. He thought it was funny but declined to use it, as it does sound pretty staged. Ha ha. I believe I found some better audio for him.
I've only seen footage and pictures of the park post Katrina, always wondered what it looked like in its heyday, the internet is truly the closest thing we have to a time machine, thank you for uploading this Before 9/11, before Katrina, Sonic Adventure 2 and The Fast and the Furious were only 2 months old and the Colorado Avalanche were the current Stanley Cup Champions
You are welcome. I know the Boomerang came from another park so maybe there is a POV of it from that park. It would have been nice to ride it but if there was one ride I would be willing to miss, its that one. I have had more bad rides on many different Boomerang than good rides so I don't know what the quality would have been like on the one in this video.
@@SeanFlahartyyeah, 4 of the rides were relocated to different theme parks. the batman ride (which was placed there in 2003 when it became SFNO) was restored and relocated to six flags fiesta texas or something like that i think, and i think there was a road runner ride that was also restored and relocated somewhere else. i forget what others were also removed
This is the best footage I have ever seen of this place pre Katrina, WOW. Sure looks like it was an fun place, thanks for uploading the awesome footage.
2000 Jazzland was built. 2001 you visit at Jazzland. 2002 Jazzland was now called Six Flags New Orleans. 2005 hurricane Katrina happened. Right after Hurricane Katrina Six Flags New Orleans closed
Your POV of the drop side of the tower will always be one of my favorite clips on this whole platform. The fact they let you film was AWESOME. And Muskrat looked like it went HARD. I’d love to see a new coaster with Mega Zeph’s layout. Moving a coaster of that age that’s been sitting for that long at that location would never be a good idea. A new ride with an identical layout would be the next best thing. One can dream.
We were quite surprised at the camera policy considering that is around the time that parks were getting really strict about taking items onride. It would be great to see the park reopen someday and if not, I do believe Mega Zeph would be easier to rebuild than a standard wooden coaster. Mega Zeph's structure is all steel. The wooden track would be the most difficult to move, and considering its condition, a complete retracting would be needed. Muskrat was indeed a very strong ride. That was the first time I had ridden a L&T mouse. I have ridden a couple others in Tennessee and Mexico and they were also just as strong on the laterals.
I’ve watched a dozen videos of people exploring the remains of this park and the MegaZeph it’s so cool to see the park in its glory and to be on the rides even if it is just a video it’s like I’m actually riding everything…thanks for sharing…
Thanks. We had an amazing time there. Too bad we weren't able to visit again. I drove by the place years ago when I was in NOLA for work. It was depressing to drive by and see just how far the park has deteriorated.
Great to spend some time with you guys at Jazzland Sean. Its a shame that no one picked up Megazeph. From your review after and while you riding it looked like a really strong coaster. I hate to see any coaster sitting and rotting. Another superb shot of park/coaster history Sean. You were the first one to do these park videos. Nobody does it better~ Rob/Boston
When we had visited the park, we really hadn't talked to anyone about the place so we went in completely blind. We were floored by MegaZeph. I had talked to some other folks who visited when it became a Six Flags park and didn't care for the coaster. Apparently it had gotten fairly rough.
So pleased to see so many smiling faces 😊 hopefully new orleans will see how many people loved this place and hopefully they'll rebuild it as jazzland. Cause let's be honest, no one wants what bayou phoenix has to offer 😒
@Sean Flaharty I was born in 2003 so unfortunately I didn't exist in a pre-9/11 world. Though I did exist during Katrina, I was only 2 years old so probably i don't remember anything at the time, but my parents and I were on vacation in Myrtle Beach, SC during the storm and from what I was told, we didn't get any effects from the storm such as high winds, rough ocean or bad rain. The week we were there it was really nice
Thank you so much for sharing this! It almost feels like being there. I wish very much that I could have experienced this park. I was living in New Orleans the year Pontchartrain Beach closed.
You are welcome. Thank you for watching. I wish I would have returned to the park because everything felt perfect the day I was there. I have heard many things about Pontchartrain Beach. I was in New Orleans for work earlier this year and drove across the Pontchartrain Causeway as I always wanted to drive it. It was foggy but I was glad I did it.
@@SeanFlaharty I don’t care for bridges, so you can imagine how living in New Orleans forced me to deal with that fear on a regular basis! I was never brave enough to drive across the causeway, though. It’s so long!!!
Looks like it was a great little park. A really good selection of flat rides and it looks like they ran them all intensely. So sad what happened to it.
It was a very fun place. I never made it back after the day this was recorded. Well, when it was operational. I drove by it in 2017 when I was in NOLA for work for a week. It's in one of my earlier vlogs. It was really sad to see the park in that decrepit state.
Thanks for this. I was 15 years old during this time and had never been here im a native born and raised in New Orleans. I went to 6flags tho😂. But I thank u for this rare footage after all New Orleans has been through ,this made me smile and heart melt 💙💙💙💙
I love New Orleans. It's one of the most unique cities I have visited. I was working in Baton Rouge in April of this year and had a day off so I drove to New Orleans just to spend a few hours there as I hadn't been there in a few years. I had always wanted to drive across the Ponchartrain Bridge, which I finally did this year. Jazzland was a fun park. I never got to visit when it was Six Flags. Thanks for your comment.
This ride was often down and when it did operate most often the front seats were closed off. The ride had balance issues which often led to the ride stalling out in the upside down position! I had witnessed this a few times. It required maintenance to resolve the issue. It has a very interesting ride and I would try to ride it in the front any chance I could get. Because it rotated and spun upside down it gave some interesting visuals. It was also a fairly high capacity flat ride and seemed to be very popular on busier days.
@@jasoncambre4960 That's really interesting and honestly a shame. Front seats had to be the ones with the best views. It looks like a fun ride, but I don't think they are built anymore. Also, do you know if the balance issue was a problem of this specific installation or was present in every Cataclysm model?
I have heard quite a few different things. I don't know which is accurate. I doubt it would ever open as an amusement park again. That too bad as I really enjoyed this place.
While I loved Demon Drop, I am sure there was a valid reason why it was removed. I know the park put a lot of money into it. While it does operate slightly different at Dorney Park, I am glad it can still thrill riders for a few more years.
wow, it’s awesome to see this footage of the park operating. it was honestly such a beautiful park. so colorful. i never lived or visited new orleans but the story of how this park came to be and how it became abandoned is so fascinating to me. i was born in 2002 so i was 3 when hurricane katrina happened. it’s absolutely WILD that this entire theme park is abandoned because of the prolonged salt water exposure from the park being underwater for like a month. the damage was tremendously beyond repair. it’s just so interesting, sad, and eerie to see that a park once full of life is now just sitting there neglected for all these years. it’s also NUTS that this park has been closed down longer than it was in operation! it’s crazy. also, wow, this video was before 9/11 too!!! wow. did you guys film your reactions to 9/11? (weird and random question but i’m just asking because it seems like you liked to record stuff lol) my mom was pregnant with me during this time so technically when this video was filmed, i existed lol
It was one of the most fun parks I had visited. I really wish I could have visited it again. I didn't record my reaction to 9/11. I remember my mom calling me and telling me to watch the news. As soon as I turned it on, I saw the second plane hit the second tower of the WTC. I say in front of my TV for a few hours, trying to process what I was watching. I try to donate blood every couple of months and I knew there was going to be an emergency blood drive at my workplace. I went into work, and sure enough there was a blood drive. By law, you are only able to donated with the Red Cross every fifty-six days. My Red Cross card had printed text on it that read "next eligible date to donation is 9/11/01." I still have that card somewhere.
wow, that’s crazy!!!!! 😦and wild!! crazy that the blood donation card had that exact date on it. do you live in new york or something? is that why they wanted people to donate blood at your workplace? and, you donate blood pretty often? wow. in a way that’s a good thing
@@alisonmcgregor2002 I live in Ohio. I just remember the news telling people to go to through local blood drive and donate as they knew there would be a massive need for blood that day. Yep, I have been donating since 1997. I have over 100 donations now. Actually, I have one in two days. Looking forward to it.
@@SeanFlaharty dang that’s a long time of donating blood. wow, that’s actually really good though! at least you’ve been doing something to help people and stuff
Visited this park on july 19th 2002 (pretty sure that was the date don’t remember) and had a blast, mega zeph was definitely their best, came back in 2004 to try Batman, it was number 2 for me, mega zeph remained in the number one spot
Mega Zeph impressed me. I had no reviews to really go by. Batman still lives. They moved it to Six Flags Fiesta Texas where it operates well. The last time I rode it was in 2020. I missed riding that coaster when it was in Japan. I missed riding it while it was in New Orleans. I finally got to ride it during my last visit to SFFT.
Damn. 21yrs ago. Though we did skip out on one park, due to “hurricane/tropical storm” Barry. We skipped out on Waterville USA and Cannonball. (It was kinda out of the way.) I never made it back to ride that coaster. ☹️
It's actually something I recorded. In 2015 I had a friend send me some drum machine tracks and he asked if I could put some guitar riffs over them. I decided to use just a sample of the recording for my intro.
Perhaps there will be a day when the New Orleans area receives another park like Jazzland. Until then, we will just watch the remains of the park fall into existence.
I spent quite a few days, OK A LOT, at Jazzland (and SFNO) as young adult. It was close and affordable with some solid rides. SF made it somewhat better with the additions of a few rides & coasters. Supposedly they were to announce a waterpark addition in late 2005. But we all know Katrina ruined that. The Fabbri Cataclysm was a rare treat and the Pirate Ship did get on up there! The Frisbee ride was one of our favorites. And let's not forget MegaZeph... With a little track work and re-profiling (the double up was a back breaker) on the back stretch, that would have been a top 5 woody. It's also the last standing coaster with a trick track... Man I miss that park, no matter how bad the area got in east New Orleans
We never got to ride the Frisbee there. I had ridden a few others so I was looking forward to riding Jazzland's version. I wish I had the chance to visit the park again. I drove by it in 2017 when I was in the area for work for a week. It was sad seeing the park in the condition is currently sits.
I used a Sony MiniDV camcorder. I think it was a TRV-8. When I went to edit the video, I increased the colors a bit and rendered it in 60fps. I do this with a lot of my older footage, Plays back a lot smoother.
Hi from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦. Really enjoyed your video. I would have loved to have ridden Mega Zeph, it looked so cool. So sad it was wiped by Katrina. Why was Zydeco Scream closed? Cute little park. 😍
Mega Zeph was a very surprising ride. We hadn't heard much about it and were pleasantly surprised when we rode it. I drove by the park in 2017 when I was in the area for work and it looked so sad. :(
This park should not have been built in the inner city of new orleans. If this park was built north of lake pontratrain, it would most likely still be around today.
I never made it to the park when it was branded Six Flags New Orleans. However, I really enjoyed it as Jazzland. It would have been great had the park been able to be reopened so others could experience it.
Hurricane Barry a ride that really told the future of that park
I really can’t believe how relaxed Jazzland was about loose articles. That is insane to me. With all the recent accidents with flying phones, that would never happen anymore. I’m glad you guys got to visit this park before it got hit by Katrina.
Yes, things were much different back then. Cameras were much larger, yet there weren't nearly the same amount of accident reports that you see today. I remember taking my first color VHS camcorder, with a separate recording deck, on coasters. No one blinked an eye. I loved the relaxed camera policies parks had back then.
Well, I mean everyone didn’t always have expensive phones that would fly out of their pocket, so loose article policies didn’t really need to be there I guess. Wild
True. Good point.
@@SeanFlaharty The very first iPhone wasn't even released until after jazzland closed.
Before Katrina and before 9/11. What a time to be alive.
It was such an easier time, indeed.
Thank you for sharing this time capsule of a trip
You are welcome, Joy. Thank you so much for watching!
RIP Six Flags New Orleans 2000-2005
It’s so weird seeing the park not overgrown with trees and plants
I know Six Flags was trying to improve shading before the park closed. However, I would have loved some trees back when this was recorded as there was zero shade. It was incredibly hot and muggy.
No cell phones, No go pros.. Just riding the coasters. What a time it most have been
Things were a lot less frantic. That's for certain. I miss those days.
This is incredible footage Sean, thank you for sharing it. I've always enjoyed the coordinated "whoa!!"s on the Muskrat Scrambler POV. I've been fascinated with this park and its brief history for ten years now, and there is very little footage available of the park before the Six Flags rebrand. It really did look like a charming place with friendly staff, and Mega Zeph could be a top ten wooden coaster if it was still running today. This place deserved time to grow and receive new attractions, but Katrina had other plans. I'm just glad we have videos like this that show us what a fun place it was for the short time it was around.
It really was a fun place. I looked forward to visiting again, but that never happened. I used to help Keith McVeen with the audio in his early animations he did for parks. He would ask if I had in my collection, or if I could go to a park and record some coaster sounds for animations he was working on. For instance, he asked me to record the sounds of Power Tower so he could use that audio in the official animation for Six Flags Over Texas's version of the ride, He had asked if I had any sounds of a mouse coaster and people enjoying the ride. I told him it was goofy beforehand but did send him the audio of the collective whoas. He thought it was funny but declined to use it, as it does sound pretty staged. Ha ha. I believe I found some better audio for him.
Pray to God that they reopen it back to Jazzland.
I've only seen footage and pictures of the park post Katrina, always wondered what it looked like in its heyday, the internet is truly the closest thing we have to a time machine, thank you for uploading this
Before 9/11, before Katrina, Sonic Adventure 2 and The Fast and the Furious were only 2 months old and the Colorado Avalanche were the current Stanley Cup Champions
Thank you for watching! I enjoyed my time at Jazzland and never made it to the park once it became Six Flags. Life was much simpler back then.
It always makes me happy to see more pre Katrina footage of the park. Takes me back to my childhood days
Great video! I never had the chance to see Jazzland. Thanks for sharing!
You would have loved it. It had a similar strange vibe to Hard Rock Park.
What a bummer the boomerang was closed. Would of loved to see a pov, don’t think one exists online. Thabks for the footage.
You are welcome. I know the Boomerang came from another park so maybe there is a POV of it from that park. It would have been nice to ride it but if there was one ride I would be willing to miss, its that one. I have had more bad rides on many different Boomerang than good rides so I don't know what the quality would have been like on the one in this video.
the freefall tower was relocated and sits in Great Escape in Queensbury, NY as Sasquatch.
That is cool that the ride continues to thrill riders. It was one of the highlights on my visit to Jazzland.
@@SeanFlahartyyeah, 4 of the rides were relocated to different theme parks. the batman ride (which was placed there in 2003 when it became SFNO) was restored and relocated to six flags fiesta texas or something like that i think, and i think there was a road runner ride that was also restored and relocated somewhere else. i forget what others were also removed
This is the best footage I have ever seen of this place pre Katrina, WOW. Sure looks like it was an fun place, thanks for uploading the awesome footage.
Thank you for watching. We had a great visit on that day, despite the crazy heat.
2000 Jazzland was built. 2001 you visit at Jazzland. 2002 Jazzland was now called Six Flags New Orleans. 2005 hurricane Katrina happened. Right after Hurricane Katrina Six Flags New Orleans closed
Your POV of the drop side of the tower will always be one of my favorite clips on this whole platform. The fact they let you film was AWESOME. And Muskrat looked like it went HARD. I’d love to see a new coaster with Mega Zeph’s layout. Moving a coaster of that age that’s been sitting for that long at that location would never be a good idea. A new ride with an identical layout would be the next best thing. One can dream.
We were quite surprised at the camera policy considering that is around the time that parks were getting really strict about taking items onride. It would be great to see the park reopen someday and if not, I do believe Mega Zeph would be easier to rebuild than a standard wooden coaster. Mega Zeph's structure is all steel. The wooden track would be the most difficult to move, and considering its condition, a complete retracting would be needed. Muskrat was indeed a very strong ride. That was the first time I had ridden a L&T mouse. I have ridden a couple others in Tennessee and Mexico and they were also just as strong on the laterals.
I’ve watched a dozen videos of people exploring the remains of this park and the MegaZeph it’s so cool to see the park in its glory and to be on the rides even if it is just a video it’s like I’m actually riding everything…thanks for sharing…
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment. I had a great day at the park.
I have watched just about all of the abandoned exploring videos of this place and this is awesome to see it in its heyday. Thanks for your memories 😊
Thank you for checking out the video!
Nice watching you enjoy Jazzland so much.
Thanks. We had an amazing time there. Too bad we weren't able to visit again. I drove by the place years ago when I was in NOLA for work. It was depressing to drive by and see just how far the park has deteriorated.
so cool to see vintage footage of rides and theme parks.
Great to spend some time with you guys at Jazzland Sean. Its a shame that no one picked up Megazeph. From your review after and while you riding it looked like a really strong coaster. I hate to see any coaster sitting and rotting. Another superb shot of park/coaster history Sean. You were the first one to do these park videos. Nobody does it better~
Rob/Boston
When we had visited the park, we really hadn't talked to anyone about the place so we went in completely blind. We were floored by MegaZeph. I had talked to some other folks who visited when it became a Six Flags park and didn't care for the coaster. Apparently it had gotten fairly rough.
So pleased to see so many smiling faces 😊 hopefully new orleans will see how many people loved this place and hopefully they'll rebuild it as jazzland. Cause let's be honest, no one wants what bayou phoenix has to offer 😒
Rebuild it as jazz land new orleans
No bayou Phoenix
Wow this video was taken a month before September 11th and 4 years before Katrina hit. Crazy. Both life changing events
Indeed. It's strange to look at some of my older footage pre-9/11 and realize just how simple things were back then.
@Sean Flaharty I was born in 2003 so unfortunately I didn't exist in a pre-9/11 world. Though I did exist during Katrina, I was only 2 years old so probably i don't remember anything at the time, but my parents and I were on vacation in Myrtle Beach, SC during the storm and from what I was told, we didn't get any effects from the storm such as high winds, rough ocean or bad rain. The week we were there it was really nice
I rode the high drop ride Halloween of 01. I was in 7th grade
Great footage thanks for sharing. Brings back a lot of memories.
You are welcome. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing this! It almost feels like being there. I wish very much that I could have experienced this park. I was living in New Orleans the year Pontchartrain Beach closed.
You are welcome. Thank you for watching. I wish I would have returned to the park because everything felt perfect the day I was there. I have heard many things about Pontchartrain Beach. I was in New Orleans for work earlier this year and drove across the Pontchartrain Causeway as I always wanted to drive it. It was foggy but I was glad I did it.
@@SeanFlaharty I don’t care for bridges, so you can imagine how living in New Orleans forced me to deal with that fear on a regular basis! I was never brave enough to drive across the causeway, though. It’s so long!!!
Jazz Land is now a whole defunct theme park that stands to this day treees everywhere graffiti aswell
Core memories unlocked. Thank you for this video.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Wow it’s very interesting to see this park full of life besides the state of decay it’s in now, thanks so much for this video😊
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching and leaving a comment.
Looks like it was a great little park. A really good selection of flat rides and it looks like they ran them all intensely. So sad what happened to it.
I would have loved to visit the place again. I think the park is too far gone to reopen but strange things have happened.
I guess that’s how the cookie crumbles. Even if it’s gone, we wouldn’t have some of the amazing parks today if Jazzland did not exist.
@@SeanFlaharty”am i too far gone? to say…”
Awesome to see what this park looked like!
It was a very fun place. I never made it back after the day this was recorded. Well, when it was operational. I drove by it in 2017 when I was in NOLA for work for a week. It's in one of my earlier vlogs. It was really sad to see the park in that decrepit state.
Thanks for this. I was 15 years old during this time and had never been here im a native born and raised in New Orleans. I went to 6flags tho😂. But I thank u for this rare footage after all New Orleans has been through ,this made me smile and heart melt 💙💙💙💙
I love New Orleans. It's one of the most unique cities I have visited. I was working in Baton Rouge in April of this year and had a day off so I drove to New Orleans just to spend a few hours there as I hadn't been there in a few years. I had always wanted to drive across the Ponchartrain Bridge, which I finally did this year. Jazzland was a fun park. I never got to visit when it was Six Flags. Thanks for your comment.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome! Thank you for checking it out.
This video is one of a kind. Thank you
You are welcome. Thank you for watching.
First POV ever of Krazy Krewe eventhough it wasn't complete. You truly are a legend!
Ha ha. Not sure about the legend title. I didn't know if someone else had posted a POV of Crazy Krewe or not. Thanks for watching!
@@SeanFlaharty I think yours is the only POV of the rotating version of the Fabrii Cataclysm ride on TH-cam.
This ride was often down and when it did operate most often the front seats were closed off. The ride had balance issues which often led to the ride stalling out in the upside down position! I had witnessed this a few times. It required maintenance to resolve the issue. It has a very interesting ride and I would try to ride it in the front any chance I could get. Because it rotated and spun upside down it gave some interesting visuals. It was also a fairly high capacity flat ride and seemed to be very popular on busier days.
@@jasoncambre4960 That's really interesting and honestly a shame. Front seats had to be the ones with the best views. It looks like a fun ride, but I don't think they are built anymore.
Also, do you know if the balance issue was a problem of this specific installation or was present in every Cataclysm model?
@@owivictin4878honestly I don’t know where there are any other cataclysm installations to even know.
You have visited this short-lived park!
Did you hear about the redevelopment project for the land that this sits on?
I have heard quite a few different things. I don't know which is accurate. I doubt it would ever open as an amusement park again. That too bad as I really enjoyed this place.
While I loved Demon Drop, I am sure there was a valid reason why it was removed. I know the park put a lot of money into it. While it does operate slightly different at Dorney Park, I am glad it can still thrill riders for a few more years.
wow, it’s awesome to see this footage of the park operating. it was honestly such a beautiful park. so colorful. i never lived or visited new orleans but the story of how this park came to be and how it became abandoned is so fascinating to me. i was born in 2002 so i was 3 when hurricane katrina happened. it’s absolutely WILD that this entire theme park is abandoned because of the prolonged salt water exposure from the park being underwater for like a month. the damage was tremendously beyond repair. it’s just so interesting, sad, and eerie to see that a park once full of life is now just sitting there neglected for all these years. it’s also NUTS that this park has been closed down longer than it was in operation! it’s crazy. also, wow, this video was before 9/11 too!!! wow. did you guys film your reactions to 9/11? (weird and random question but i’m just asking because it seems like you liked to record stuff lol) my mom was pregnant with me during this time so technically when this video was filmed, i existed lol
It was one of the most fun parks I had visited. I really wish I could have visited it again. I didn't record my reaction to 9/11. I remember my mom calling me and telling me to watch the news. As soon as I turned it on, I saw the second plane hit the second tower of the WTC. I say in front of my TV for a few hours, trying to process what I was watching. I try to donate blood every couple of months and I knew there was going to be an emergency blood drive at my workplace. I went into work, and sure enough there was a blood drive. By law, you are only able to donated with the Red Cross every fifty-six days. My Red Cross card had printed text on it that read "next eligible date to donation is 9/11/01." I still have that card somewhere.
wow, that’s crazy!!!!! 😦and wild!! crazy that the blood donation card had that exact date on it. do you live in new york or something? is that why they wanted people to donate blood at your workplace? and, you donate blood pretty often? wow. in a way that’s a good thing
@@alisonmcgregor2002 I live in Ohio. I just remember the news telling people to go to through local blood drive and donate as they knew there would be a massive need for blood that day. Yep, I have been donating since 1997. I have over 100 donations now. Actually, I have one in two days. Looking forward to it.
@@SeanFlaharty dang that’s a long time of donating blood. wow, that’s actually really good though! at least you’ve been doing something to help people and stuff
@@alisonmcgregor2002 I always feel the need to give back in some way and donating blood is easy and helps a lot of people.
It’s crazy to see ppl not holding a phone in their hand also crazy to think 2001 was 22 years ago was born a year later 2002
I remember the arcade game zone in the night was beautiful i miss the 2003
I don't remember the arcade game zone. I wish I would have been able to experience this park at night.
@@SeanFlaharty well the name isn't arcade is a place where says "games" in the top and in the night was very nice
Visited this park on july 19th 2002 (pretty sure that was the date don’t remember) and had a blast, mega zeph was definitely their best, came back in 2004 to try Batman, it was number 2 for me, mega zeph remained in the number one spot
Mega Zeph impressed me. I had no reviews to really go by. Batman still lives. They moved it to Six Flags Fiesta Texas where it operates well. The last time I rode it was in 2020. I missed riding that coaster when it was in Japan. I missed riding it while it was in New Orleans. I finally got to ride it during my last visit to SFFT.
Damn. 21yrs ago. Though we did skip out on one park, due to “hurricane/tropical storm” Barry. We skipped out on Waterville USA and Cannonball. (It was kinda out of the way.) I never made it back to ride that coaster. ☹️
I didn't either. What a shame.
0:03 What song is this? I love metal, but what I’ve listened to is minimal.
It's actually something I recorded. In 2015 I had a friend send me some drum machine tracks and he asked if I could put some guitar riffs over them. I decided to use just a sample of the recording for my intro.
THE PARK LASTED UNTIL HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA
This helps a lot recreating this in Minecraft!
Back in the good old days
The very end of the good old days
This is amazing!
Many thanks, Sam!
Everything will be like this one day. The store down the road, the town hall, even the roof above my head, a day will come and it will not be there.
Perhaps there will be a day when the New Orleans area receives another park like Jazzland. Until then, we will just watch the remains of the park fall into existence.
My childhood memories
wow
very cool
This looks like a bunch of children operating those rides.
JAZZLAND is now Swampland. ...
I spent quite a few days, OK A LOT, at Jazzland (and SFNO) as young adult. It was close and affordable with some solid rides. SF made it somewhat better with the additions of a few rides & coasters.
Supposedly they were to announce a waterpark addition in late 2005. But we all know Katrina ruined that.
The Fabbri Cataclysm was a rare treat and the Pirate Ship did get on up there! The Frisbee ride was one of our favorites.
And let's not forget MegaZeph... With a little track work and re-profiling (the double up was a back breaker) on the back stretch, that would have been a top 5 woody. It's also the last standing coaster with a trick track...
Man I miss that park, no matter how bad the area got in east New Orleans
We never got to ride the Frisbee there. I had ridden a few others so I was looking forward to riding Jazzland's version. I wish I had the chance to visit the park again. I drove by it in 2017 when I was in the area for work for a week. It was sad seeing the park in the condition is currently sits.
A good park with a ton of potential. A shame it would all be gone within 5 years.
It was a lot of fun to visit that place. When we were walking out, we all were in agreement that our day was really special.
Love this! What type of camera was used to shoot this? Looks great!
I used a Sony MiniDV camcorder. I think it was a TRV-8. When I went to edit the video, I increased the colors a bit and rendered it in 60fps. I do this with a lot of my older footage, Plays back a lot smoother.
I enjoyed this!
Thanks for watching!
Hi from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦. Really enjoyed your video. I would have loved to have ridden Mega Zeph, it looked so cool. So sad it was wiped by Katrina. Why was Zydeco Scream closed? Cute little park. 😍
Mega Zeph was a very surprising ride. We hadn't heard much about it and were pleasantly surprised when we rode it. I drove by the park in 2017 when I was in the area for work and it looked so sad. :(
Nice vídeo!!
Thanks for watching!
@Sean Flaharty That Place Closed For The Storm In 2005 My Dad Told Me A Story About A Hurricane In 2005
Yeah, but it was Six Flags New Orleans then -- which truthfully did close in 2005 due to Katrina. :)
This park should not have been built in the inner city of new orleans. If this park was built north of lake pontratrain, it would most likely still be around today.
My guess is they looked all over for land big enough for what they needed. It was in a strange location for sure.
It's a shame that it closed.
It was a really fun place.
It's a Shame that it's sits abandoned basically nothing but swamp land now 😢
CLOSED FOR STORM
17:32 Micheal Jackson :D
The world right before all hell broke loose a month later on 9-11 then again with hurricane Katrina
A much simpler time for sure.
Is ashamed they never reopened
I never made it to the park when it was branded Six Flags New Orleans. However, I really enjoyed it as Jazzland. It would have been great had the park been able to be reopened so others could experience it.