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Environment & Energy

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts) Fri Mar 8, 2024, 06:02 PM Mar 8

Miami Seaquarium gets eviction notice several months after death of Lolita the orca

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Miami Seaquarium gets eviction notice several months after death of Lolita the orca (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 8 OP

Sad and glad XanaDUer2 Mar 8 #1

It's about time. Was the shittiest worst place. Filthy, rusty, low wage, badly run. So Miami. n/t Marcus IM Mar 8 #2

A shame Lolita never made it home pfitz59 Mar 8 #3

When I was a kid, we went to the Seaquarium on our school outings. Deuxcents Mar 8 #4

XanaDUer2

(10,726 posts)

1. Sad and glad

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2024, 06:23 PM

Mar 8

Have many happy memories of this place, circa mid-70s. But keeping them in captivity.

Marcus IM

(2,219 posts)

2. It's about time. Was the shittiest worst place. Filthy, rusty, low wage, badly run. So Miami. n/t

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2024, 06:33 PM

Mar 8

pfitz59

(10,389 posts)

3. A shame Lolita never made it home

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2024, 06:52 PM

Mar 8

I am sure her family would've remembered her.

Deuxcents

(16,314 posts)

4. When I was a kid, we went to the Seaquarium on our school outings.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2024, 08:59 PM

Mar 8

It was always a treat to get to go there, the Monkey Jungle, the Zoo and Matheson Hammock Park for a tour of the gardens and nature center with our bagged lunches. Sad to see an educational experience and childhood memories go by the way of Father Time.

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