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 BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
 |  |  | [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
< on 3/9/2011 2:54 AM >
|  | | | My latest work on Katrina abandonments. This massive high school was such an amazing building, with immense history. Just breathtaking in spots. I got some amazing panoramas in there. Asbestos heaven.
"The opening of Booker T. (as it is affectionately known) in September 1942 was a cause for great rejoicing in New Orleans’ large African-American population. After all, in 1900 the New Orleans School Board had voted to limit black education to the first five grades. Now a splendid new high school was opening that rivaled any white school—not a hand-me-down school but a state-of-the-art facility built specifically for black secondary education—a first in the city.
The opening of Booker T. gave the African-American community much more than a new high school. Accompanying the school (and attached to it) was a huge auditorium that became in effect the city’s black municipal auditorium. In the age of segregation, the roughly 2,000 capacity auditorium was indeed “separate but equal.” Soon after its opening, the facility hosted Paul Robeson in his first New Orleans appearance. The Louisiana Weekly reported that blacks turned out “en masse” to hear Robeson, although with “a fair sprinkling whites.” There were seven encores, and the audience was “almost shaking the roof with its thunderous applause.
Other greats who graced the stage include Marian Anderson, Dizzie Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson and Louis Armstrong." |
Check them all out here: http://bit.ly/g8zpCs
Preview:
[last edit 3/9/2011 3:53 AM by BecomeTheChange - edited 3 times]
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CatalogOfCulture
   
Location: All over the northeast
Gender: Male
| | | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 1 on 3/9/2011 3:04 AM >
| | | | Looks like it is in pretty good shape... not tagged up and scrapped. Love the first two.
** edit - From looking at the rest of your pics the scrappers did find it after all. 
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'Raine
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Female
| | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 2 on 3/9/2011 4:16 AM >
| | | | Amazing panoramas! I looked through your pics on your web site....so much damage, it makes me sad all over again. Is nothing being done to restore some of these places? Your b&w shots in "the city" are beautiful.
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MonkeyPunchBaby
 
| | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 3 on 3/9/2011 4:18 AM >
| | | | When my wife and I go back to NOLA I have got to explore with you. When we there we did Six Flags, and thats about it in NOLA. We scouted several skyscrapers and and hospitals but security was too tight.
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PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 4 on 3/9/2011 4:11 PM >
| | | | These are great. I love post katrina New Orleans buildings. Its sad, obviously, but it makes for wonderful pictures. I love the auditorium one!
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BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
| | | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 5 on 3/9/2011 5:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by MonkeyPunchBaby
When my wife and I go back to NOLA I have got to explore with you. When we there we did Six Flags, and thats about it in NOLA. We scouted several skyscrapers and and hospitals but security was too tight.
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Thanks guys!
Security is stepping up across town and buildings are being locked up tight because of a number of recent incidents. Also, the city is really trying to get cleaned up. A lot of demolition happening and planned. I'm glad what I've been able to accomplish so far. Some of it takes patience, planning, common sense, and balls.
This school was right up against the projects. I went with my buddy who was in town for Mardi Gras. We were not alone in the building. A dark figure walked by a doorway and almost made us shit our pants. Then it disappeared and we were being followed/watched the entire time we were there. A bit on the creepy side.
Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/justinpopp |
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MonkeyPunchBaby
| | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 6 on 3/9/2011 6:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by BecomeTheChange
Thanks guys!
Security is stepping up across town and buildings are being locked up tight because of a number of recent incidents. Also, the city is really trying to get cleaned up. A lot of demolition happening and planned. I'm glad what I've been able to accomplish so far. Some of it takes patience, planning, common sense, and balls.
This school was right up against the projects. I went with my buddy who was in town for Mardi Gras. We were not alone in the building. A dark figure walked by a doorway and almost made us shit our pants. Then it disappeared and we were being followed/watched the entire time we were there. A bit on the creepy side.
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hell yeah thats creepy. you should head out to western LA. I was in a town called Cameron right after rita and the town was badly destroyed. You can probably go around the Cameron Parish crawfish broil and get some good eatings and locations
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BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
| | | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 7 on 3/11/2011 3:05 AM >
| | | | Posted by MonkeyPunchBaby
hell yeah thats creepy. you should head out to western LA. I was in a town called Cameron right after rita and the town was badly destroyed. You can probably go around the Cameron Parish crawfish broil and get some good eatings and locations
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Seems like this whole state is a breeding ground for urbex.
Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/justinpopp |
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Dripik
Location: Carson City, NV
Gender: Male
UE is my nightlife
| | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 8 on 3/11/2011 5:19 AM >
| | | | Really amazing set again. The way you capture some of these places is just beautiful. Truly great.
“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
John Hope Franklin quote (X)(DRIPIK)(X) |
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insulinguy
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Gender: Male
| | | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 9 on 3/11/2011 7:44 PM >
| | | | excellent post - cant wait to get down to NOLA and explore...
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emenhiser
Location: Colbert, GA
Gender: Male
Soli Deo Gloria
| | | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 10 on 3/11/2011 8:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by Dripik
Really amazing set again. The way you capture some of these places is just beautiful. Truly great.
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took the words right off of my keyboard.
sick post, bro!
"Wear some golf shoes, otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive. Impossible to walk in this muck. No footing at all." -- Fear and Loathing
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BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
| | | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 11 on 3/11/2011 10:46 PM >
| | | | Thanks so much guys! I try my best to capture the mood.
[last edit 3/11/2011 10:47 PM by BecomeTheChange - edited 1 times]
Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/justinpopp |
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Raticus
   
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 12 on 3/21/2011 4:04 AM >
| | | | I like those first two shots also. Very nice. Great gallery. I need to make a trip to NO.
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Chris-Kicker
Location: New York, NY
Gender: Male
no, I did not Kick Chris.
| | | Re: [Katrina] a massive abandoned New Orleans High School
<Reply # 13 on 3/21/2011 7:11 AM >
| | | | I really enjoy
photograph no. 2
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