Detour #6 - New Orleans Lakefront Airport

[@willbygosh4887]

Beautiful terminal.

[@shorty332]

My dad use to take me there when I was a kid all the time due to living a couple of minutes down the road. It was my favorite place to go. I remember going outside going up the spiral steps to the balcony to view the field and watch the planes. My favorite thing about that airport was those telephones. I took my daughter and showed her. Things in that era were so classy and made with pride. The only thing I dont like about renovation is the old time smell isn't there no more.

[@504RoadTrips]

Yes, I can remember going out there as a kid and getting up on the observation deck and watching the planes take off and land. There was a lot of aviation activity there in the late 70s/early 80s. The airport isn't used as much now as it was then, and the observation deck is now used as an outdoor patio for the Walnut Room restaurant. I know the old smell you're talking about...probably a combination of mold, dust and tobacco residue. I'm sure they had to thoroughly soak everything with bleach and disinfectant after the hurricane cleanup, forever removing any remnant of the smell.

[@casperyost3552]

What a beautiful art deco building. I hope they can utilize it to keep it maintained.

[@504RoadTrips]

Casper Yost they seem to be trying to preserve it now, after so many years of being encased in concrete panels during the Cold War era. They did a really good job of restoring it to its former conditions.