The aquatic park entertained millions of visitors to the Palos Verdes Peninsula from 1954 to 1987. Opening a year prior to Disneyland, it was then the world’s largest oceanarium and arguably California’s first major theme park.
But the whales, dolphins and performing seals are all history now, along with the ruins shown in this video made two years ago. This past June a brand-new resort hotel opened on their site.
For yet another trip down memory lane, click on over to this old Marineland commercial starring a formerly well-known child actor.
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Will you be doing a post on the new hotel? It would be so interesting to see how this ruin came back to life, and I live on the East Coast, so it would be difficult for me to swing by to see for myself.
Here in Atlanta the ruins of an old steel plant were cleaned up and the site became the largest mixed use development in the world — Atlantic Station. And now, right in my own neighborhood, an unused GM automobile plant is sitting empty, waiting for a new life.