1984 Louisiana World Exposition
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The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition was a World's Fair held in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1984. It was held 100 years after the city's earlier World's Fair, the World Cotton Centennial in 1884.
Plagued with attendance problems, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition has the dubious distinction of being the only exposition to declare bankruptcy during its run. Many blamed the low attendance on the fact that it was staged just two years after Knoxville's 1982 World's Fair, just two states away.
Despite its problems, it is fondly remembered by many New Orleans residents and noteworthy architecturally for the groundbreaking post-modern Wonderwall designed by Charles Willard Moore and William Turnball.
One of the fair's more famous attractions was the Mississippi Aerial River Transit. This was a gondola lift that took visitors across the Mississippi River from the fair site in the Warehouse District to Algiers on the West Bank.
The Fair was held along the Mississippi River front of the New Orleans Central Business District, much of it on land that was formerly a railroad yard. While the Fair itself was a financial failure, it did much to help revitalize the nearby Old Warehouse District. The "Riverwalk" Mall and Building 1 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center were originally part of the structures built for the Fair.
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| Preceded by: 1982 World's Fair |
World Expositions 1984 |
Succeeded by: Expo 86 |
