Jococo’s Gift Shop and the Mega Zeph at Six Flags New Orleans

Jococo's Gift Shop stands beneath the deteriorating Mega Zeph wooden coaster at abandoned Six Flags New Orleans.
Jococo's Gift Shop stands beneath the deteriorating Mega Zeph wooden coaster at abandoned Six Flags New Orleans.

Jococo's Gift Shop stood near the entrance of the Batman: Coming Soon area of Six Flags New Orleans, formerly Jazzland, on the eastern edge of the city. The park opened in 2000 and was sold to Six Flags in 2002. Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters submerged the grounds for weeks in 2005, and the park never reopened. The wooden coaster looming behind the shop, known as the Mega Zeph, was left standing but structurally compromised by saltwater corrosion. Six Flags let its lease lapse in 2009, and the site has remained in legal limbo between the company and the City of New Orleans ever since.

Photo taken in December 2009.

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