 In the early 1980s, the studios of radio station WWOZ were located in one of the apartments upstairs from the club.During that time, WWOZ would occasionally carry a Tipitina's show live by literally lowering a microphone into the club through a hole in the floor.Tipitina's closed for a time during the 1984 World's Fair, when much of the local music scene was drawn to venues in and around the Fair.