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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Its first job was hosting a World's Fair. The building that became the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center opened its Great Hall for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition - the last World's Fair held on American soil - then welcomed its first trade show, a helicopter exhibition, in January 1985. Named for Ernest "Dutch" Morial, New Orleans's first African American mayor, the centre stretches nearly eleven blocks along the Mississippi River at 900 Convention Center Boulevard. Expansions...