Marineland

[duvaldude08]

Sorry Dude, but only a pajama clad, pinko, communist, gook, could hate Marineland.  Granted the original version was "the real deal" and I think they royally screwed up when that was all bulldozed, the new one looking like a Walgreens without windows. The hotel and in park restaurant and trails are also history as is the old bus station.

Sea World might be a copy of Marineland on steroids but never the other way around, Marineland was a mature park and research facility before Seaworld was a spark in it's developers eyes.


OCKLAWAHA

I really did. Im actually not a fan of either actually. Just not what Im into. Never have been.

[Ocklawaha]

Okay man, so everyone mark it down!

FROM THE DESK OF KING NEPTUNE REX

Be it known to all subjects, vertebrate and anemone's

On this date, MJ hereby relieves and absolves one citizen, "Duvaldude08," of ever being accused of being a fish huger!

Order filed and recorded in the deep, this date, by the prince of muddy waters, opium and Soco:

OCKLAWAHA

[duvaldude08]

Okay man, so everyone mark it down!

FROM THE DESK OF KING NEPTUNE REX

Be it known to all subjects, vertebrate and anemone's

On this date, MJ hereby relieves and absolves one citizen, "Duvaldude08," of ever being accused of being a fish huger!

Order filed and recorded in the deep, this date, by the prince of muddy waters, opium and Soco:

OCKLAWAHA

Thank you MJ 

[Shwaz]

I'm with Ock. When I was a kid Marineland was a destination. They had multiple exhibits and shows on the hour. Now it's just a tank of Dolphins attached to a gift shop :/

I remember hanging behind after the last show of the day and the trainers brought us down from the bleachers to toss the football with the dolphins, brush there teeth and help feed them a bucket of fish.

[cline]

I think it basically went bankrupt after Hurricane Floyd hit and damaged it.  I believe a private citizen came up with the cash to renovate it and now the main thing it offers is swimming with dolphins.  Although, I think one of its primary purposes is research with the UF Whitney Labrotory across the street.   

[Ocklawaha]

It's funny that they say renovation, man they blew that place away worse then the best of LaVilla, Brooklyn or Fairfield.  There isn't so much as a brick atop another brick, still standing from the original, which is sad indeed. Private Citizen or no, someone should have thought of the historical value of certain aspects of the old Marineland.
Certainly that is qualified by just what FLOYD left? Does anyone have photos?

When I was a young freak, bumming around our beaches, Greyhound Lines had a classic low level local bus that made a daily milk run from Jacksonville to Jacksonville Beach, and hence all the way to Daytona Beach on A-1-A.
It was very scenic from the window of a nice MCI coach, and I remember it always had a lot of people on board.
This run was also an early victim of "FREEway thinking" and it, like so many local bus and rail routes was snuffed out.

OCKLAWAHA