This week took me to New Orleans LA! Holiday Inn was having a super sale on rooms in downtown so I stayed at the Holiday Inn located next to the Super Dome. The city is slowly coming back to life however the National Guard still patrols the streets at night!
Created by law, November 8, 1966 Louisiana Constitutional Amendment Construction began- August 11, 1971 Superdome opened- August 3, 1975.
World's largest steel-constructed room unobstructed by posts.
First privately-managed, publicly-owned arena.
More Super Bowls than any other facility; six, including Super bowl XXXVI in 2002.
World record for an indoor concert - 87,500 for the Rolling Stones in 1981.
Site of 1988 Republican National Convention where George Bush was nominated.
National record for basketball attendance at the NCAA Final Four (64,659 in 1987) and for regular season (68,112 in 1990).
Pope John Paul II addressed 80,000 school children in September, 1987.
For more visit: http://www.superdome.com/site2.php
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