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Lakefront Airport New Orleans
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Kathleen K Parker
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Photograph - Photography
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Refurbished after Hurricane Katrina, Lakefront Airport in New Orleans is a must see. Its ART DECO style has been maintained from the amazing center room and staircase and to the retro signs such as the telephones sign. There are actually brown wooden phone booths down that corridor. From the website comes the following statement: "On February 10, 1934 more than 10,000 visitors from the United States, foreign countries and local New Orleanians attended the dedication of an airport that was to be "the Air Hub of the Americas".
New Orleans Lakefront Airport was built adjacent to the Industrial Canal, on a man-made arrowhead peninsula jutting into Lake Pontchartrain. To make land available for this elaborate project, the Orleans Levee Board drove a 10,000 foot retaining wall into Lake Pontchartrain and pumped in six million cubic yards of hydraulic fill to raise the field above the water.
Built at a cost of $4.5 million, the airport had a field measuring 3,000 feet long, thus qualifying for the U.S. Department of Commerce's highest rating, AA-I. Not only was the field considered the standard for the times but the art deco airport itself was considered a wonder of architecture and decor." ( www.http://www.lakefrontairport.com/lakefront-airport-history.html) .....more to come...
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April 23rd, 2018
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Kenner, LA - United States
Thanks, ez, steve, and HH Photography of Florida and Southern Photographers! I appreciate your comments so much. This is an amazing place. :) kk
Sarasota, FL - United States
Congratulations Kathleen! Your photograph has been selected for a home page Feature in the Southern Photographers group. As a permanent record, you’re invited to post your image in the FEATURED ARCHIVE thread in the group discussions.
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