The new New Orleans: Memories still locked behind closed doors, a post on the travel website Gadling, talks about the storied past of the Municipal Auditorium and the role it has played in the lives of countless local residents. The report talks of Carnival balls, Russian ballets, ice shows, high school graduations, boxing matches and more. It tries to...
The new New Orleans: Memories still locked behind closed doors, a post on the travel website Gadling, talks about the storied past of the Municipal Auditorium and the role it has played in the lives of countless local residents.
New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium has been shuttered since the flooding that came after Hurricane Katrina
The report talks of Carnival balls, Russian ballets, ice shows, high school graduations, boxing matches and more. It tries to portray "a sense of what the auditorium, dedicated in May 1930, meant to this city."
The F.X. Jeff Municipal Auditorium has sat largely untouched since levee flooding after Hurricane Katrina badly damaged the facility more than seven years ago. In May, FEMA approved a $16.6 million grant to help repair the auditorium. The post-Katrina flood caused significant electrical and mechanical damage to the auditorium in Louis Armstrong Park.