"WPA installed the marine lighting for the "Fountain of the Winds," New Orleans Airport. [View of the fountain at night.]"

ID: 5098 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division, WPA Photograph Collection, Series 03.18. ~ Date: July 9, 1938.

This file appears in: The Works Progress Administration Renovations and the Fall of Abe Shushan

This file appears in: The Works Progress Administration Renovations and the Fall of Abe Shushan

The Works Progress Administration Renovations and the Fall of Abe Shushan

By Teresa Thessen

In 1936, a $250,000 Works Progress Administration beautification project took place at the airport and included extensive landscaping, paving roads and runways, and this fountain. Enrique Alférez…