New Orleans, Louisiana: Eerie Deepwater Horizon Memorial (Gone)
Eleven lifelike men made of thousands of rusty welded steel disks stand in a circle in a street median -- a memorial to the eleven oil workers who died when the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform blew up in April 2010. The city removed the sculpture in August 2018.
- Directions:
- Just east of the French Quarter. In the median of Elysian Fields Ave., just north of its intersection with Dauphine St.
- Hours:
- Removed by the city in Aug. 2018.
- Status:
- Gone
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Eerie is a great description. One minute you are in the heart of the French Quarter and suddenly you turn the corner to see a beautiful memorial smack dab in the center of a busy corridor.
[Mallory Billings, 06/07/2017]
Nice dedication of "Eleven," a memorial to the victims of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform calamity of 2010.
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