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A photo tour of the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans
Written by Robert Niles
Theme Park Insider reader Ryan Traylor emailed some photos he took recently of the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans park, which closed after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, then never reopened.Tweet
Ryan shared some thoughts, via email:
"The first thing that struck me is how much the coasters and larger rides are still standing. Clearly the damage is from the flooding. And then the looting.
"Being in the park alone is awesome, even though the rides are not operational. Then the abandonment sets in. You hear the wind howling through the park. Broken gates creaking. Leaves rustling across spilled papers and plastic utensils. It's literally a ghost town. They closed the park in preparation for the storm and never returned."
"And the park being accessible is not a big secret. We ran into three other people while wandering around the park.
"It is definitely a park I want to visit again and spend a few more hours in."
Tag, you're it, Mr. Six. Welcome to Zombieland.
There's no queue for The Jester, but quite the wait.
Anyone up for a ride on the bumper cars?
Ironically, this abandoned
How about a ride on the flume to cool off?
Don't forget to leave a comment at Guest Relations on your way out of the park. Just have a seat and wait for the next representative.
Readers' Opinions
From 18.104.22.168 on March 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Very cool to see and thanks for sharing. I wonder why, when they decided not to re-open, why they didn't extract some of the ride components. Surely there was value in the ride tracks, cars, etc. even if they needed refurbishing and they have other parks they could potentially have used them in or sold them to smaller parks. Seems like such waste of those resources.
From 126.96.36.199 on March 28, 2011 at 11:54 AM
love the pics, something kinda sad about seeing an abandoned theme park, such a shame to see such great coasters falling into disrepair .
it seems kind of strange that they all left just before the hurricane and never went back, there's a movie to be made at some point
From Robert Niles on March 28, 2011 at 1:39 PM
(Edited to defer to a better explanation below.)
From Carrie Hood on March 28, 2011 at 12:08 PM
The biggest problem is rather then starting a quick clean up they just allowed things to fester. The water damage alone was bad but without them coming in to quickly re-claim the park the mold/mildew and rust alone now has probably made nearly everything worthless. I know that there have been various pieces in the paper about the City and State trying to force Six Flags to do the clean up which was part of their contract but it's very doubtful if anything will ever happen in that regard.
Abandoned places in general have always been fascinating for me and I'd like to see SFNO one of these days if I'm ever down that way.
Great Pictures!
From Brian Emery on March 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM
I am truly amazed folks can get in there so easily…If someone gets hurt, sues them and their insurance company..Yikes..
Thanks for posting them Bobby..
From 126.96.36.199 on March 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Interesting. I remember passing by this when I went to help my son move out of New Orleans and out of Katrina's wake. Yes, always sad to see such a park in this way, and yet I, too am rather fascinated by these empty/often historic parks. I didn't know it never re-opened.
From 220.127.116.11 on March 28, 2011 at 12:57 PM
From NOLA and basically they had a contract with the city, which owned the land, and 6Flags was not doing well enough financially to pay to break the contract thus they couldn't touch the rides. Likely got a court order not to move anything out of the property. Took years for 6Flags, likely there insurer, to reach a settlement with the city. Now that is over, they briefly entertained other parks coming in, but it is ridiculous. Had a pass every year they were opened, and it was a very nice new park. But they never could draw a crowd out of the area, and locals didn't go for sure. It never made a profit. Why would anyone reinvest in a market that has proven it won't work and risk a repeat of Katrina. It was a great asset to the city before though, for those whom enjoyed the annual passes. We would go at least a dozen times a year for a $50. pass. Great times. The rides themselves, may be 2 years after, were checked and determined that most needed to be rewired but the rides were good. Some were totalled. Heard some valuable equipment/rides did leave before the city put a stop to it.
From 184.108.40.206 on March 28, 2011 at 1:21 PM
This saddens me. I love amusement parks and have found great interest in reserching closed parks and what they leave behind. I'm sure the many people in the New Orleans miss this amusement park and it seems that someone could come in clean up and re-build. Thanks for the pictures I wished I was close enough to tour the park myself.
From Colton McLaughlin on March 28, 2011 at 2:32 PM
If I ever go to New Orleans, I'm going here. It's always been a dream of mine to go gallivanting in an abandoned amusement park and this would be the perfect place. Literally a dream come true. It saddens me that this happened, but I'm also enthralled by it. I must be crazy...
From Anon Mouse on March 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM
It's very sad indeed. I don't understand the contractual agreement with the city where equipment cannot be removed. It is worthless if not removed. At minimum, the city should allow the removal so they can be sold. Perhaps the city has better ideas, but it might be time to return the park back to nature.
From Tony Stevens on March 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM
Very eerie. I hope this is not the fate of Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. It is looking at a second year of being shut down since it was closed and even though it is supposed to reopen in 2012 I am beginning to wonder.
From 18.104.22.168 on March 28, 2011 at 6:19 PM
from what i had heard, there was also some issue with the ownership rights to the equipment, i.e. Six Flags did remove a ride or two and some parts of rides, but the city of New Orleans claimed IT owned the rides and so made Six Flags stop. i have heard there are new developers interested in opening the park again though.....
From 22.214.171.124 on March 28, 2011 at 6:22 PM
I always find that I get such a creepy feeling when I see photos of abandoned parks. To me it is what I imagine viewing a dead body would be like. Something that was once full of life and joy now is left a shell without a soul. Very eerie and sad to witness especially for any theme park fan.
From Mark Fairleigh on March 28, 2011 at 6:25 PM
I really love these abandoned ghost park reports, but boy they always creep me out! :)
From Terri Pierce on March 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM
That's so eerie! I've never seen a "real" abandoned theme park. The zombieland poster made me lol. If I am ever in the area I will def stop here. Sometimes I wonder if our local park (Wild Adventures) will close and become what it was in the movie zombieland. It surely is sad already.
From Terry R on March 28, 2011 at 6:54 PM
I agree with the previous posters that I find abandoned amusement parks fascinating yet very sad at the same time. I sometimes get emotional whenever I pass by a park in San Jose, California where Frontier Village used to stand.
I hope Six Flags can one day buy back the property and perhaps sometime in the future reopen it again. Ah well, we can dream!
From chris cona on March 28, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Thats really sad how the park is. Some rich company should clear it out and make a fresh new park. If i had the money i would totally do it but sadly i dont.
From 126.96.36.199 on March 28, 2011 at 10:06 PM
We currently have an abandoned Six Flags theme park in Louisville, KY, but no natural disaster to blame it on. The owners prior to Six Flags say they plan to reopen it, but we will see. There was a dispute over ownership of the land and attractions. We also have a really old abandoned theme park called Rose Island Amusement Park that closed due to the 1937 flood. The former park is currently completely wooded and only accessible by boat. What is left of it truly looks like ancient relics.
From Carrie Hood on March 29, 2011 at 4:01 AM
Yeah it's a very confusing deal they had with the city when six flags moved in and took over the old Jazzland park.
I think when Six Flags removed rides from SFNO it was the newest additions they had put in, I somehow doubt they would have allowed the city to have rights to those. Again, the problem is the longer things sit there rotting and baking in the sun the harder and more expensive it will be to fix or reopen them. At this point I'd have to say the City is better to cut their losses and sell things for scrap.
Heh, we won't talk about how I know these things... but technically if anyone cared about people getting into the park you'd be fined with trespassing. If you got fined and hurt in the same trip there isn't an insurance company or judge alive who would accept your plea. After which they'd either try to secure the park with rental security (who is easy to get past anyway) or it'd be bulldozed even quicker. Generally when exploring you don't get hurt unless your being completely stupid.
There is a lot of documentation threw the urban explorer groups who've seen and explored old and abandoned amusement parks. Just do a few google searches and you'll stumble upon them. *Coughgooglesnbocough*
From David Sutter on March 29, 2011 at 4:36 AM
Great photos Ryan. Thank you. ive been following this story for a few years now. And heres the deal.
The park openned in 2000 as "Jazzland" and was operated by Alfa Smartpark, Which was a group of New Orleans bussiness man. The land was leased from the city of New Orleans and was built with city Bonds and urban development money. Thus giving the city ownership of the park and the equpment.
Alfa Smartpark sold the lease to Six Flags in 2002 they changed the name to Six Flags New Orleans. But they never owned the park out right they were only a managment company. Thus having no claims to the rides and attractions of the former Jazzland. These belonged to the city and were leased to them.
After Katurina hit. the park sat under 10 feet of water. once it recessed and a walk thru was completed Six Flags was waitting for the insurance company to make good on the need cash to repair it. Well as we all know they just about tanked as a company about the same time frame.
And over time almost like theves in the night roller coaster trains and rides started to disapear from the park. ANd some found there way to other Six Flags parks.
So the city legal eagles put a stop to that . But as we know wheels of law move slowly. And after 3 years a stop order was given to them. And we have what we have today.
It was a long battle because it appeaars that lease was for 99 yrs. And Six Flags wanted out but for cheap money. Now Im no lawyer but, for what it cost SF they got away cheep. Its my belief that they sould ahve been responcable to restore it to some level of operational state before being allowed outta that lease or set up a restoration fund to help anyone with a interest in reopenning the park.
But instead we have what sits today on Interstate 10 as you approch New Orleans.
From Andy Milio on March 29, 2011 at 6:12 AM
I'm sorry, but I lol'ed at Zombieland. I love that movie. But anyways, that was very interesting; to see an abandoned theme park was neat, yet sad.
From 188.8.131.52 on March 29, 2011 at 12:39 PM
While these pics are creepy, there was a YouTube video posted a while back that is even more creepy. Check it out everyone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcja8UBtXdk
From Mike Gallagher on March 29, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Three things:
1. The photo with the caption referring to it as a "coaster train" is not a coaster. Inverter is a rotating flat ride that goes upside down..various names at various parks.
2. Zombieland is an absolute classic of its genre, and I, too, got a chuckle out of that picture of the vandalized sign.
3. I thought the saddest pic was of the season passes simply scattered to the four winds, although I'm not sure why the passes were in the park and not in their owners' possession if the park closed in advance of the arrival of Katrina.
Well shot and written photo essay.
From Robert Niles on March 29, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Inverter caption fixed. Thanks.
From Jose Vazquez on March 29, 2011 at 6:15 PM
Whoa how surreal to just wander through such a huge park thats a complete ghost town. Must be kind of eerie and surreal walking through that during the day...and who knows what lurks there at night. Hmm..good premise if they ever wanted to do a paid "haunted" tour of the abandoned park for Halloween. Great photos and story, really shows how popular park establishments can instantly fade in economic strife.
From 188.8.131.52 on March 29, 2011 at 7:59 PM
It's interesting how This Six Flags is not operational, I wish i could own this Six Flags!
From 184.108.40.206 on March 30, 2011 at 9:07 AM
I worked there several seasons and it is sad that it was not re-opened.
From 220.127.116.11 on March 30, 2011 at 9:10 PM
What's amazing is that there's an abandoned water park right on Disney World property. Look up River Country on youtube...very creepy...you can hear music still playing in the park.
From 220.127.116.11 on April 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM
Dan Snyder was here.
From 184.108.40.206 on April 1, 2011 at 12:34 PM
The way Six Flags really got out of the dispute was through their bankruptcy filing. That's how they got out of Kentucky Kingdom too.
From 18.104.22.168 on April 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM
The annual passes scattered on the ground must have been from a batch of bad cards; "VOID" is written on the closest three.
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Which City Offers Botox 24 Hours a Day?
Princess 19 on 4 Nov 2011 at 2:00pm
Where can you get a "quick fix filler" any time of the day? No, it's not NYC or LA (although, we venture to guess there might be a place, but we haven't heard). It's Moscow - as in Russia.
The land of the frozen tundra is now becoming popular for freezing muscles to fight back the signs of aging (yes, we had to go there and use that analogy). Botox is becoming so popular in Moscow, that one clinic offers the service of getting your touch-up injections 24 hours-a-day.
Apparently there are people out there fretting over a frown line at 3AM... We've heard of 24-hour salons that will cater to that cut and blow-dry or mani/pedi any time of the day, but this takes it to a whole new level.
The idea and popularity of Botox was recently covered in none other than The Moscow Times. The article bravely hypothesized that the new-found popularity could be due to the unnamed Soviet leader who apparently has had some face work done recently. Who could that be? The popularity of the procedure is higher amongst Russian men.
"Half the people we get in here are men," said one Botox specialist quoted.
The specialist, however, did refuse to discuss whether or not, let's just say, the Prime Minister has actually "gone under the knife." Well, no surprise there.
So, if you were ever worried you wouldn't be able to get your crow's feet banished if you visited the Russian capital city, your worries are over. For about 200 rubles, you'll be all set. That's about $7 in American money. Wow, that's a better bargain than a bowl of Borcsh (once again, we just had to go there).
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Thank you for your hate-filled questions.
Mary is two years older than I am. Sybil was one year younger (Sybil II is 26 years younger than me).
The dog of our family is named Isis and even she is a girl.
Men are always interested in Mary because they view her sour attitude as something they can tame…. Also, she's a bit of a tramp. I could tell you some stories, but the last time I shared them it led to a great big mess. Me? I'm afraid I'm just a bit more dignified than that.
Why do you ask? Are you by chance a proper man with a title? If so, do write back soon.
Sincerely yours,
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With that said, thank you for your enthusiasm! As for the amount of time that went into each of these photographs, you are quite right! Photographs are quite the task! First, the photographer has to set the camera up on a contraption known as a "tripod," named for its three legs I'm sure. Then he must load the film into the camera. Once he takes the picture, he has to be careful not to expose the photograph to the light or else the whole thing will be ruined and we'll have to start the process all over again! Not to mention that he must change the flashbulb between every picture he takes! The whole thing is positively exhausting. But it's worth it to capture a moment in time to look back on forever.
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-a ( cr7nr r I Volume 37 Number 25 The power struggle continues by John Watts There seems to be restlessness among the natives here at WSC only it's not among the students. The restlessness is stirring within the faculty and the current problems that are arising over "room space and prime time slots" for classes. A number of faculty members on campus feel that the English department is getting the favorable nod when it comes to class schedules. An established professor inside the Social Science building says that the English department continually schedules all of their required classes at the peak hours, between 9 a.m. and noon. "It's impossible to get an elective to be successful at 1 p.m., but it's even worse trying to compete against a class that everyone on campus has to take," declares the first source. "If everyone is forced to take English 101, 102 or 103, andor a literature class between 9 a.m. and noon, then the elective classes are usually sacrificed. Besides that, if we can't get a large enough enrollment in the elective classes then they are I ) V A t L SURROUNDED : John Dean, the Watergater whose testimoney began Nixon, will be the convocation speaker noon in the Fj.C. Jan. 27. cancelled and those required English classes survive and get all the classroom space." Henry Ibarguen, History professor, has differing opinions but related concerns. "I think they have been pretty good about their classes. They have generally moved to another area if there was a conflict between our classes." "But office space," continues Ibarguen, "seems to go to them when it's available." "I think WSC just needs a Humanities building for them." Dr. Floyd Woodfield, English department chairman, said that the English department gets shuffled around more than any other department on campus. "If we should have to move around, then possibly other departments could also." Woodfield says he realizes that much of the movement is because English classes do not require a great deal of specialized items such as maps, lab rooms, and instruments. "Dr. Dello Dayton, Academic Vice President and former Dean of Arts, Letters, and Sciences says, "The Business department n if0 4 .a. 1 y I fy x x , i I 4 ' . " t '. ? ! " S1T 1 X , 'V- , .- jt" 't. "' - 1 Weber State College moves as much as anyone because their building is only large enough for their offices." "What I would like to see," says the first source," is required English classes taught at 7-8 a.m. and then again at noon to 3 p.m. That way the students would be able to take the electives they desire plus the required English "It's impossible to get an elective to be successful at 1 p.m., but it's even worse trying to compete against a class that everyone on campus has to take." classes, thereby providing rooms for everybody. Dr. Dayton said, "there have been suggestions to hold required classes at earlier and later hours they they are still under consideration." Most all of the various subjects have to be taught in the morning hours because the majority of students are commuters and need to be able to work in the afternoons. Photo: montage bjr R. Stephen Mrflow the fall from power of Richard "All schools want the prime time hours," stated Dayton. The first Social Science source suggested a comparison could be made using the declared major" statistics to see just how the various departments differed in size but who is the actual majority in the Social Science building. "They're not tremendously larger in declared major students than the rest of the departments but yet it seems they manage to get the prime time slots and space," he says. These enrollment figures were published at the end of fall quarter, 1976-77: ENGLISH 95 students HISTORY 98 students PSYCHOLOGY 176 students POLITICAL SCIENCE 155 (incorporating 50 pre-law) POLICE SCIENCE 394 SOCIOLOGY 225 (Estimated by the dept. chairman; they refused to release their actual figures.) "We have never intended to disregard the priorities of the Social Science people," says Dayton. "The assignment of rooms is done centrally, not individually by departments." Dr. Robert Mikkelsen, Dean of Humanities, says that "the English department is the largest on campus. This can be substantiated by the fact that we are located in a number of areas, mainly because we take space wherever we can get it." "Right now we are located BinffWffl 'MIT "" THill"'-"W'1"LtM Inside Today WSC Activities P. 3 Crime Lab P. 10 Editorials P. 6 Pat Paulsen P. 2 January 25,1977 J mainly in the Social Science building but we are long overdue for a building of our own. We would like to look into the possibility of moving into the Math building should they get to move into the new Technology building. We have not heard anything about the possibilities of moving into the west wing of the library since it's completion," says Mikkelsen. Dayton said that the English department's largest resource materials are located in the library so this would have been a good focal point. But, he added, the need for aides to assist students were in greater demand, so the space was used accordingly.A second source instructing within the Social Science building said, "The English department is becoming a threat. They have so many instructors on their staff that they require offices on two floors of the Social Science building and some offices in the Education building. They have offices in the Police Science area, 'ulitical Science area, Psychology area, Social Work and their own area that used to be valuable study space." "I guess the administration, or someone, forgot who this building was built and designated for. After all, they are a Humanities area and the rest of that school is in the Fine Arts," he stated. According to Dayton, the Social Science building was built for this area of emphasis, but it was originally designed to be a general lecture building. "However," states Dayton, "the Social Science classes always receive priority. We've just never been able to accommodate everybody happily." "I feel sorry for the English departnent in a way," says Dr. Kim Wheatley, Professor of Psychology. "They're strung out all over this campus. I would like to see a general lecture hall built on the grass east of the Social Science hail." After all of this discussion it could possibly be inferred that certain members on the faculty would like to see some changes in the Social Science building while others have mixed concerns. But if they have a legitimate complaint, one wonders how the Physical and Life Science departments feel about their classrooms being occupied by the Humanities visitors from the bottom of the hill.
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|Weber's current student newspaper, the Signpost, first appeared on September 29, 1937. For two years prior to that time, campus news was disseminated via announcements posted on a bulletin board known as the "Signpost". As a result, the masthead of the first issue of the paper itself featured a rudimentary wooden sign with the title spelled out in rustic-looking letters. Over the years the paper has been published continuously, though the look, size and style has changed several times.
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Plan B's 'Nothing Personal' takes personal look at torture, abuse of power
By Barbara M. Bannon
Special to The TribuneFirst published Oct 19 2013 01:01AM
Plan-B Theatre Company opens its season this week with local playwright Eric Samuelsen's "Nothing Personal," whose main characters come from the Clinton administration's Whitewater real-estate scandal: Susan McDougal, the Arkansas woman jailed for contempt of court, and Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor. Or are they? I posed a few questions to Samuelsen; Jerry Rapier, who directs the production; and Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, who plays the intriguing character of the matron.
Why did you write this play? Why were you interested in it?
Samuelsen • Initially I was interested in the story of Clinton and Susan McDougal, and I thought I'd write a play just about that. But it was post 9/11, we were in the middle of the War on Terror, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought that just that story — of Kenneth Starr and Susan McDougal — worked better as a jumping-off point to a larger exploration of human-rights abuses and basic civil liberties. So I let my imagination run free and went all kinds of places that really don't have anything to do with Starr and McDougal.
Rapier • The play isn't really about Susan McDougal and Kenneth Starr at all because most of what happens in the play never happened. Kenneth Starr never questioned Susan McDougal in prison. It's Eric's view of the impact of Susan and Kenneth, not a history lesson.
Why should any of us care about what happened to Susan McDougal? If somebody asked you, why should I come and see this play, what would you say?
Rapier • Susan McDougal matters because she was abused in a way that would be unconscionable now and could not be hidden as well. In the mid-1990s, it was still possible to hide such things, and now that's not the case. We get so much information that we're desensitized by it. It's one thing to discuss how people are treated; it's another thing to experience — even in a very small degree — the impact that has on someone. Whether or not you agree with the use of torture and the use of force to get people to confess to a crime, participating in it, observing it, being fully aware of even a small part of what the emotional impact is on the person being treated that way is almost overwhelming. You forget how the way we consume information really distances us from what it is we're trying to learn. The thing I see as most American in my lifetime is that we are so shortsighted that it is inevitable that history will repeat itself. So Susan McDougal happened almost 20 years ago, but had we paid attention, maybe — just maybe — Guantánamo would have been handled differently.
Samuelsen • I think what the play does is provide audiences with the subjective experience of being abused, the subjective experience of a victim and an abuser. And it explores other issues that are really interesting, like what is truth? What's real? What is the difference between subjectivity and objectivity? Is objectivity possible?
Rapier • Truth with a capital T may not exist, but there are small truths that separate the good of the people from the good of the individual. How do you know the difference? How do you navigate when those in power are more interested in maintaining power than in serving those who put them in power?
Samuelsen • I think there is also a corrective that the play accomplishes. I just saw the film "Prisoners." I wanted to do something about torture that shows what I think is a truer reality, which is that it doesn't work; it's not effective.
Rapier • I don't want people to think that we're witnessing torture because that's not what the play is about; the play is about the effects of it, not the acts. In many cases, we build up to the moment, and then we come out of the moment, but we don't see the moment, which is almost more horrifying—to fill in the gap with your own thoughts.
Samuelsen • It's a scary play to watch.
The play's third character is very enigmatic. She is the matron, but she never speaks except once, and that time she uses glossolalia (like speaking in tongues). Who or what does this character represent, and what are the challenges in portraying her?
Darby-Duffin • She represents everything that's behind being locked down, locked up. I think she also represents this kind of silent religious bloc that doesn't really say anything, that goes along and polices what people say is supposed to be the right thing. I follow along because these are the rules, and this is my job. Initially she's kind of contemptible; the idea that you don't say anything ever is horrifying. I think that she should be saying something, but she probably has succumbed to, "Yeah, of course, we're doing this for the right reasons. We're trying to keep America safe." She's so deeply rooted in being patriotic and also having this deep-rooted religion that she has to believe it, and when she doesn't anymore, then you see that wall break down. I guess everybody has that too-much state where they go, "This is more than enough." I've been thinking about that: What is more than enough for individual people, and when we get to more than enough, that's when revolution happens.
Samuelsen • I wanted the matron to represent the ordinary people who work in the intelligence establishment or the Justice Department: There are people who give the orders; then there are the other people who — it's just a job. A lot of people who end up working in that area of government tend to be religiously conservative, so that's why she speaks in tongues. When Kenneth loses her, he loses everything. When finally it sickens people for whom this is just a job, that's when this stuff will stop happening.
Any other reasons for us to come and see the play?
Samuelsen • It's been very interesting to me this last week to watch our country working its way through our own national hostage crisis. It has a very weird resonance with the play. The shifting, ever-changing narrative, the invention of false narrative — granted it's all political maneuvering — but it has every element of hostage taking and attempts at abuse.
Rapier • It's a grittier, more raw, bolder play than people are used to seeing from Eric. It shows a different side of his skill as a writer and his passion for America than most people attribute to him. That's also the reason I wanted to start the season with it.


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SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego pedicab driver says most of his peers smoke pot on the job, and he wants the city to do something about it.
"You put 10 pedicab drivers out here on the harbor, I'd say seven of them smoke marijuana while they work every day," said pedicab driver Roy Grant.
Grant has been a pedicab driver for two years. He said he often sees his fellow drivers smoking illegal drugs while waiting for large cruise ships to arrive in port.
"They go on a little pier near Seaport Village and smoke it," Grant said. "Little spots by the Midway -- they go there and smoke it. I see them sell it, pass it among themselves."
Grant has tried to get city officials to do something about the issue for several months. In March, a city committee will discuss testing pedicab drivers for drug use, although few expect the idea to become reality.
"It's going to be really difficult to enact a program like this," said San Diego police Officer Scott Thompson, "Each of the pedicab drivers are independent businesses."
Other pedicab drivers Fox 5 spoke to don't believe there's a drug problem in the industry, but they said they would welcome drug testing.
"I don't think there have been any accidents because of drugs," said pedicab driver Ron Kennedy.
Grant acknowledged that raising the drug issue could thin out his competition and anger other drivers, but he said he wants to clean up San Diego's pedicab industry.
"I'd like for it to happen," he said, "Every time I've spoken about it, it's like I've been talking to a wall."


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It's long been true that schools have to hold bake sales and wrapping paper sales to raise needed funds. Now, one educator is resorting to a shoe sale to stave off layoffs at her school.
The creative and shoe-loving principal of Jackson Elementary in El Dorado Hills, a suburb east of Sacramento, is hawking her vast array shoes via the Internet.
Calling her effort "Shoes to the Rescue," Michele Miller is selling off hundreds of pairs of shoes on a web site that you can check out here.
This is a fun story, which is getting a lot of media attention. But the sobering underside is that education is at such a low point in funding that a principal is raiding her own wardrobe to help pay the bills.
If practitioners have to sell their boots and slingbacks to pay the bills, I am not sure schools can meet the higher performance demands now being placed on them or that we can expect greater professionalization of the education field.
Let's hear from principal Miller directly:
March 25th, 2011
10:11 am
California, the poster child of how not to run a state, is inundated with illegal aliens. Maybe Michelle Miller would have more impact by describing how the children of illegal aliens have bankrupted the school systems.
Consider this:
In California, the $7.7 billion spent annually educating the children of illegal immigrants – nearly 13% of the overall 2004/5 education budget could:
Cover the education budget shortfall for the 2004-05 school year, estimated by the Legislative Analyst Office at $6 billion and nearly cover the $2 billion reduction this year from the Proposition 98 formula.
Or the remaining $1.7 billion could pay the salaries of about 31,000 teachers and reduce per student ratios, or furnish 2.8 million new computers – enough computers for about half of the state's students.
prevent educational shortfalls estimated at $9.8 billion over the past four years that have impacted on "… class size, teacher layoffs, shorter library hours and fewer counselors, nurses, custodians and groundskeepers." (Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2005)
But no, what gets media play is this woman's shoe fetish….
March 25th, 2011
10:12 am
I just went over a similar topic yesterday about "school money". My investment properties are scattered in different school districts. The taxes and mil rates in the underperforming ones are a lot higher than the ones in the great school districts. Some of my properties are in choice school districts, but the amount of tax for these properties is approx. 30% lower than the "bad school" districts. Also, the amount to educate 1 student is higher in the "bad school" district. Makes a person think about the "budgeting crisis".
March 25th, 2011
10:18 am
She certainly must love entertaining via the ole "Shoe Show". This shoe sale is just another dumb "feel good idea" by some bubble head that will so not much good at all.
"Oh look at me, I care and can prove it by selling all my shoes. Im a saint and should be rewarded with my name in lights. I did it all for the kiddies." Pitiful. Just more sillyness…
March 25th, 2011
10:24 am
15 instructional aides, and only 20 teachers???? Her video also said that there are three assistant principals. Upon further investigation, there are quite a few instructional coaches and such. This is the problem with the schools and systems today. Too many people outside of the classroom and not enough teachers.
March 25th, 2011
10:43 am
Nothing like taking a story about someone trying to do something good and making it all about your own personal opinions…..
March 25th, 2011
11:14 am
I guess it's kind of nice that she's doing this, but how unrealistic is it to think someone is going to pay $1,000 for your nasty used shoes?
March 25th, 2011
11:19 am
And I will NEVER for the life of me understand how anyone can be so obsessed with shoes.
I would say women, but I have sadly seen some so-called "men" share this obsession. Clothing is clothing. I wear the same shoes every day until they wear out, then I buy a new pair. Even then I try to hold out til my wife drags me to buy a new pair.
The obsession and commercialism of our society has gotten out of hand. An entire room devoted to SHOES?! Truly revolting.
March 25th, 2011
12:16 pm
WOW, and how far does she think $3.15 is gonna go toward saving those people when someone in the system will probably steal most of it Woman's a nut……and she's a principal!!!!!!!!!
March 25th, 2011
12:30 pm
it's not going to solve anything – but it's not supposed to. This is a morale booster for her staff. We get called in and admins tell us they're cutting ten so we better not screw up or it will be us. Then they hire a few more of their fraternity brothers or sorority sisters after canning us. She's taking the opposite approach and although it probably won't help, it will boost morale for a while. This, in turn, should help students because they'll have energized motivated teachers.
March 25th, 2011
12:56 pm
I may just be tender hearted, but as an elementary school teacher, I think it is a way to improve staff morale even if the end result does not keep any positions. I agree with some of the previous posts about where cuts could be made to save classroom teachers, but it's a start. The principal is guiding this sale. At least she cares about her teachers. I don't think that is the case in some schools.
March 25th, 2011
1:07 pm
You're right, ah…
I shouldn't be a jerk here…it is a very nice gesture. I guess I am just floored by the idea that a person could own so many shoes.
March 25th, 2011
1:30 pm
I advise donating to a good private school. Public schools are a grand experiment gone sour.
March 25th, 2011
1:59 pm
Sounds like there could be some cuts in this school and it would not affect the children.
March 25th, 2011
2:13 pm
@ Lee – just for clarification…..do you feel illegal aliens are NOT contributing financially in some way? Don't they have to live somewhere (property taxes – either as the renter or buyer are being paid). In the metro Atlanta area, one cent of all purchases go toward metro schools…..so these illegal aliens are paying taxes when they buy food, clothes, etc.
I am not saying being an "illegal" is right; however I get confused when people state the "illegals" are "draining" our economy but in reality they are contributing too! I feel like the whole "illegals" versus "legals" is another ploy to "divide" the nation. It is a story played out in history over and over – first the Europeans immigrants stealing jobs from "honest American" factory workers and now the "desperate" illegals leaching the economy….smh
March 25th, 2011
2:20 pm
March 25th, 2011
12:56 pm
Ya…and tossing a glass of water on a blazing 3 story building also does a lot of good. You people will never learn.
March 25th, 2011
2:22 pm
March 25th, 2011
1:07 pm
Well atleast it shows she does care!! About her feet that is and I bet they are very smooth and kissable…
March 25th, 2011
2:24 pm
March 25th, 2011
11:19 am
Hey…a female friend of mine has 137 pairs of shoes and thats just in her garage…not telling whats in the closet, spare closet, under the bed etc. Yep…just a pure waste.
The last girl I dated had 38 pairs of tennis shoes in her closet. And looked as though they had never been worn.
March 25th, 2011
2:42 pm
@truth: my sentiments exactly!! We're all illegals at some point in our history- DUH!!
I'm amazed at how quickly so many here have taken a nice gesture, to boost morale, and turned it into a debate about immigration status and public/private school. Sheesh, can't we just appreciate the woman's gesture?
March 25th, 2011
2:56 pm
"Sheesh, can't we just appreciate the woman's gesture?"
Is that anything like "good intentions pave the way to hell"?
Its futile gesture. Its meaningless and will result in little or nothing. She is doing it to garner attention like 3/4s of the USA these day. "OH…LOOK AT ME…I CARE…IM GOOD…I CARE…" All flash no substance.
March 25th, 2011
4:16 pm
Did I miss something? Never does she mention what SIZE her shoes are or where you can go to look at them and buy them. Or do you pay $1,000 for a souvenir you're not expected to actually wear? With my luck I'd probably get those pink daisy flip-flops.
March 25th, 2011
4:22 pm
If they were Jimmy Choo or Manolo Blanik, then maybe. However, they look cheap. Cheap shoes harbor bacteria and can ruin your feet. I would never purchase shoes at a thrift or consignment as you never now what grown inside a dark and damp shoe … Gross!
This is purely for attention. The publcity has "ME" written all over it. Not surprising this story comes out of Californication.
March 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
Blahnik – wouldn't want to upset the Shoe Gods!
March 25th, 2011
4:34 pm
Designer shoes? Then this principal makes too much money.
Cheap shoes? She is a hoarder, if you haven't worn it in over a year get rid of it!
Where does the media continue to find these lunatics?
March 25th, 2011
5:14 pm
You're right.
8 regular ed teachers out of 34 staff members. While I admire Ms. Miller's effort to keep everyone employed, looking at the regular ed teacher to staff ratio is critical. Maybe California mandates she keeps all those personnel who do not teach math, science, social studies and language arts. If so, that's very sad for the kids who are coming to school to be instructed in the content areas.
March 26th, 2011
10:32 am
@ Alecia-"The taxes and mil rates in the underperforming ones are a lot higher than the ones in the great school district"
This is because you have to pay teachers, admin.'s etc. more to get them to work in these "bad" school districts. We call it "combat pay".
Also, there are more underperforming students and students with special needs that require more services..this costs more money.
March 27th, 2011
2:56 pm
Maybe she can get some lessons from the APS -Jackson Principal
This principal knows how to move money from salaried positions to the school's general fund and miscellaneous accounts, falsify criteria for work that was not actually accomplished, falsify attendance records, and the list goes on…
Of course this Principal has a HOT LINE to the downtown comptroller and APS Superintendent's downtown regime.


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JANAKPUR, 165km east of Birgunj and 25km south of the Mahendra Highway, is the Terai's most fascinating city. Also known as Janakpurdham (dham denoting a sacred place), it's a holy site of the first order, and its central temple, the ornate Janaki Mandir, is an obligatory stop on the Hindu pilgrimage circuit. Possessing a strong Indian influence, the city is small and manageable: motorized traffic is all but banned from the centre, and tourist hustle is largely absent.
Despite the absence of ancient monuments to confirm its mythic past – no building is much more than a century old – Janakpur remains an attractive city. Religious fervour seems to lend an aura to everything; the skyline leaves a lasting impression of palm trees and the onion domes and pyramid roofs of local shrines. Most of these distinctive buildings are associated with kuti – self-contained pilgrimage centres and hostels for sadhus – some five hundred of which are scattered throughout the Janakpur area. The city's other distinguishing feature is its dozens of sacred ponds, which here take the place of river ghats for ritual bathing and dhobi-ing.
Brief history
Hindu mythology identifies Janakpur as the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mithila, which controlled a large part of northern India between the tenth and third centuries BC. The city features prominently in the Ramayana: it was here that Ram – Vishnu in mortal form – wed Sita. In Janakpur the chant of "Sita Ram, Sita Ram" is repeated like a Hindu Hail Mary, and sadhus commonly wear the tuning-fork-shaped tika of Vishnu. Mithila came under the control of the Mauryan empire around the third century BC, then languished for two millennia until Guru Ramananda, the seventeenth-century founder of the sect of Sita that dominates Janakpur, revived the city as a major religious centre.Read More
Janakpur's festivals
Janakpur's festivals
Janakpur's atmosphere is charged with an intense devotional zeal. New shrines are forever being inaugurated and idols installed, while loudspeakers broadcast religious discourses and the mesmerizing drone of bhajan. Pilgrimage is a year-round industry, marked by several highlights in the festival calendar:
Parikrama As many as 100,000 people join the annual one-day circumambulation of the city on the day of the February/March full moon, many performing prostrations along the entire 8km route. The pilgrimage coincides with the festival of Holi, when coloured water is thrown everywhere and on everyone.
Ram Navami Ram's birthday, celebrated on the ninth day after the March/April full moon, attracts thousands of sadhus, who receive free room and board at temples.
Chhath Women bathe in Janakpur's ponds and line them with elaborate offerings to the sun god Surya at dawn on the third day of Tihaar (Diwali) in October/November. Women in the villages surrounding Janakpur paint murals on the walls of their houses.
Biwaha Panchami The culmination of this five-day event – Janakpur's most important festival – is a re-enactment of Ram and Sita's wedding at the Janaki Mandir, which draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims on the fifth day after the new moon of November/December.