| This photo shows former Illinois Central property which would soon be cleared for the construction of the Louisiana Superdome and other redevelopment. The street in the lower right corner is Loyola Avenue, and the one running from the upper left to the middle right side is Poydras Street. The long building along Poydras Street at Loyola had been IC Warehouse No. 7 and the tall building across Poydras is New Orleans City Hall. There were once eight tracks on this side of of Warehouse No. 7 and then there was an open area for storage and then five teams tracks.The buildings on this side of the team tracks were IC Warehouses No. 3, 2 and 1, and there were tracks between all of these. The tall building in the foreground is a Federal office building with a Weather Service radar on the roof. The low building on the lower left is the Main Post Office; and next to it, out of sight, is New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The long building to the left of the Federal office building was IC Warehouse No. 9, and out of sight to the left of that was the ICRR hospital.Ground breaking for the Superdome was on 12 August 1971, about a year after this photo was taken, and it opened on 3 August 1975. The stadium is now on the left side of this photo, and much of the land shown here is occupied by an office building and a hotel. (approximate day) |