Being a lifelong resident of New Orleans (50 years) , I've often heard stories about how Walt was planning on building another Disneyland in the New Orleans area. Supposedly, word leaked out and land owners jacked up the prices of their property so Walt decided to build in Florida instead. Personally, I find the whole story hard to believe but I've been wondering if anyone else may have heard anything of this. My guess is that these people may have heard the story of Walt building New Orleans Square in Disneyland and gotten the whole thing mixed up with each generation adding to the legend. Recently, a co worker told me that Walt was looking at buying the land in Eastern New Orleans where Six Flags eventually would be built. In August 2005, Six Flags-New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and never reopened.