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The hospital is guarded, gated and surrounded by barbed wire and fences these days. It’s proximity to the Superdome seems to me would be a good site location for a hotel. Last year there were solicitations for bids in the hopes a private company would restore the building. There were plans to turn the art-deco style building into city government offices, but lack of state funding commitments quashed those plans.
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Tape on windows still remains from Hurricane Katrina. That idea was abandoned by Louisiana in favor of a $1.1 billion new build hospital University Medical Center New Orleans, which opened August 2015. The hospital building was evaluated after the hurricane and the report by an architectural engineering firm said restoring Charity Hospital would be the least expensive and most expedient way to bring back high quality medical care to the city. Still, having never toured New Orleans before this past week, those indelible images of post-Katrina were the New Orleans I was most familiar with and Charity Hospital was the first place I visited upon leaving the Hyatt Regency to check out New Orleans city downtown on a Saturday night. Ten years after, some locals have told me they are tired of talking about Katrina.
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I was one of the millions of Americans glued to the TV during those days of August-September 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Charity Hospital was a headline story. behind Bellevue in New York City, also founded in 1736, a month earlier than Charity Hospital. Until Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Charity Hospital was also the second longest continuously operating hospital in the U.S. The enormous building was the sixth Charity Hospital, a New Orleans institution founded in 1736. I asked and was told this building is the former Charity Hospital, the second largest hospital in the U.S. There was an immense building visible from the Hyatt Regency lounge that raised my curiosity due to it looking sort of occupied, but sort of abandoned. I ventured out Saturday night after feeling a bit stir-crazy from 48 hours in my hotel room. There were numerous high school marching bands.
Parade walkers wore elaborate, colorful costumes too. Something pointed out to me by a local is look around streets and neighborhoods to notice all the beads hanging from tree limbs, utility wires and balconies across the city accumulated from years of parades. There are spaces on both sides where float riders can toss out beads and other goodies to spectators. The floats are brilliantly colored and pulled by tractors. The opening night event Sunday was a Mardi Gras Parade held at the Superdome. The conference has over 6,000 attendees from more than 70 countries. IPW is a 5 day travel tradeshow with the purpose of selling the USA as a travel destination to international tourists. Travel Association IPW trade show convention on Sunday night at the Superdome. My objective was to be well enough to attend the opening event for U.S. I did not leave my hotel room for 48 hours. June 16-17 were record breaking heat for those dates in the city. Everyone told me it would be hot in New Orleans. I arrived in New Orleans June 16 when it was 97 degrees at 7:00pm. My view looks east to the Mississippi River about 1.2 miles away. The Regency lounge and Stay Fit Center is Floor 32 with 360-degree view from those two rooms. There are 27 floors of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans and I am up top. This is the first time in more than a decade I have stayed 7 consecutive nights in the same hotel. I can count my blessings in the fact that I booked seven nights at Hyatt Regency New Orleans. Hyatt Regency New Orleans is Home Sweet ‘Temporary’ Home Still, I have snapped a couple hundred photos and seen some stuff to share about life in the ‘Big Easy’.
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In seven days I have explored about as much ground in New Orleans as I would normally have explored on my first full day spent in any city I had not traveled through before. I can expect another week of clearing snot out of my face. While watching the NBA Finals with a California contingent in the Superdome Sunday night, a fellow Californian, who recently recovered from the flu, made me aware that this superbug is a two week ordeal. My super traveler writing bug has been overshadowed by a California cold superbug that hit me on the same day I arrived in the ‘Crescent City’ last Thursday. This is Day 7 since I have been in New Orleans and I have not written anything about the city.