The ruins of Marineland
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- My son and I recently visited the ruins of the famed Marineland theme park on the Palos Verdes peninsula in California. The ruins have since been cleared to make way for yet another resort hotel.
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Thanks for the post. Marineland of the Pacific was a really cool place. Growing up in California in the '60's, I went there often. Lots of fond memories!
WOW - thanks for preserving, what some of us would consider, a bit of childhood history. I still remember seeing Orky and Corky. They even had a cameo on a Six Million Dollar Man episode.
My dad used to take me to Marineland when I was a kid. When they opened Baja Reef, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I still remember swimming in that salt water pool with all kinds of fish and yes there were even a few small sharks.
Me too! I remember two barracuda in there even. They would just stare at you. I used to hike there about 10 years ago and have some photographs of the ruins. I even walk through the dry Baja reef.
I loved this place as a kid just about very weekend we went there:) Thank u for showing it. My dad passed away on 11-28-2007 and Its my childhood special place:) Patty 32 who misses my dad Thanks daddy for a great childhood I love and miss u very much so does Mike and Johnny your sons:)
thanks for posting this.
haunted the empty grounds for years.
scattered my granny's ashes off the coast here.
pre-development, it was breathtaking.
Terrornea is SUPER SPOOKY.
Luxury ghost town ready to follow Marineland's path to obsolescence. so sad.
I was there a young lad in 1960. Place made a huge impression on me. Got to visit one last time a month before it closed.
I worked there summers for two years (1975 to 1976) and during the Christmas holidays while I was in High School. Very fond memories of Marineland of the Pacific.
I had forgotten all about this place until just now watching the movie "2010" (1984, the sequel to "2001") and noticing in the credits a producer 'thank you' to Marineland. A flood of memories of several visits as a kid came back; thank you for the visual reminder.
My parents took me to this around 1973, remember my dad putting the bumper sticker on our 1972 Pontiac. It was in the shape on a dolphin, was blue and said Marineland on it in script text. Funny how you remember the little tings like that from childhood
Thank you for the tour down memory lane. I went there as a kid and loved it.
MArineland was a great destination for all who lived nearby like our family. You would take the curvy landslide-ridden road from San Pedro up through the EMPTY hills of Palos Verdes and past the strawberry and flower vendors to a spectacular destination. The biggest shame of its closing is the loss of the marine mammal hospital and rescue teams as well as the studies that were done there. It was a fun place and so wonderfully placed.
just watched the Emergency episode were Johnny and Roy rescued a man from the top of the tower ride.
Sad to find out this place no longer exist.
I have been archiving my slides of my familys 1963 trip to California including Marineland. When labeling the slides I have been surfing the net for info and ran across your video. Good job. It brought back memories.
As a child, it was amazing. We went all the time! In retrospect, It makes me sad that I was entertained by captive animals, that has been proven weren't happy.
I went there back 83 on a school field trip when they were open.
Fascinating video - thanks for posting.
SO MANY great memories of Marineland. Grandma used to take to me there & gosh was it a happy time. I live in NorCal now & last time I was down there, the line on the road was all wavey, like earth movement. Heck, we have earthquakes up the yin-yang here in The Geysers area quite often up here & I live close to the fault, so what can you say. I also adored The Pike in Long Beach & Knott's Berry Farm. It was FREE to get in back then & I'd ditch school on occassion to go there. Cool!
I only went here in 1977.The homes in that area were so nice.
so sad to see that was the only aquarium/oceanary my dad would ever take us too because that was all he could afford dor a family of 6, back in those days.
Never even been to California but I know exactly how everybody feels about this. I've been in South FL all my life and we've seen the same things happen here as in most other places. It truly is sad to see so many true landmark places close after such a long run in society. It saddens me to see this even though I've never even been to any of these places because I can translate it to where I live.
Life was so much simpler back then as was entertainment in general. Makes me sad thinking about it.
Awesome comment BakerMan
I went there once in 1985. I don't remember much, but I do remember thinking Sea World was so much better. Although it is sad it closed, it had been open way past its prime. The whole facility would have had to be redone to keep up with today's standards. I also worked at Sea world for four years in the 90's. There was always a better potential for animal rehabilitation at S.W. than at marineland. Thanks for the video.
I loved those ruins- they were sooo cool! When I went there one day and saw them bulldozing it all down, it made me sick to my stomach. A few weeks ago I drove through those stupid, ugly apartment buildings and felt sick again.
Nice job, developers, for ruining such a cool place and replacing it with crap.
Thank you for the comment Jason .. it's good. I would have felt the same way.
yes, yes, and yes.
i lived in buena park, on western,and artesia close enough to knott's to see the big k light up each night, and 10 minutes walk from enchanted village(formerly deer park). the aligator farm was fun, when you drove down lapalma you could see the gator slide. next door was the awesome pottery shack.a summer day might include visiting the aligator farm and later going to knott's lagoon. baja reef was cool, and orky and corky who both converted to "shamuism" i think
Hotel & Golf Course, currently now at the site, 100 years from now, another Marinenland Retro will be built......
I visited Marineland when I was about 10 in the 70s. I need to dig out those pictures...
The Resort Hotel is preferable to this nothing remains of a park still sitting there doing nothing. Remember that starting in 1954 the land we know as Marineland was not public beach access and even if you were a Park guest you could not go up to the water and enter the water.. But now with the resort when it opened almost 10 years ago they sectioned off part of the parking lot for non hotel guests and have a trail to the water for public Beach access for the first time since 1954. It is not a Sandy area and very Rocky but it is awesome for snorkeling with perfectly clear blue water. Much better to look at that then see these crumbling relics.
Great photo's and excellent narration. I've never been there but seeing those photo's, I can immagine they were once filled with happy family's walking up and down them with children running and laughing. I wonder if Sea World San Diego had anything to do with it's closing. Once Sea World and WDW opened in Orlando, that kind of squashed most of the smaller attraction in Florida with the exception of a few that still struggle to survive today including Marineland near Palm Coast, FL
I was there in July of 1972..........I was 17. Such a shame that we're never satisfied; everything always has to be bigger and better...........and look where it's getting us.
A couple of years ago a group of us toured the resort there as guests. Beautiful property.
Last time I went to Marineland was in the 80's when me and my two brothers parked up the street, hiked along the cliff face, timed our crossing at a couple of points with the waves so as not to get washed away, and then snuck in for free under a fence that was at a seal/ocean viewing area. Took in a few shows then left. I moved out of CA in 1997, but road my bike by it a couple of times and it was in ruins, overgrown with weeds taller than me and the "space needle" was wrapped in barbed wire.
I got to visit Marineland once in the 80s probably right before it closed. Sad that it closed.
I am glad i have the great, "So Cal" memories locked inside my mind. It truly is tragic to see these landmarks gone. P.O.P. was another great place. The, "Helms bakery trucks" 'Pup n Taco" 'Pioneer Chicken" I could go on and on. The 'ol mighty dollar has corrupted So Cal to the max, and there is No turning back. Well i am heading north to Seattle and i have to say Good-bye So cal, Thanks for the memories. I have a whole brain full. At least the Samboni birth place is still there. Bye All.......
Pup n 🌮 and pioneer chicken!!!
I saw Buddy Rich perform in one of the oceanariums and the dolphins started jumping and splashing water all over his big band and creating swells that lapped into the performance area. Buddy began striking the snare when the dolphins jumped in and out of the water, then angrily stormed off the stage! Coincidentally, I sat next to Charlie Callas--the famous "rubber-faced" comic! I too visited the ruins of Marineland with a friend and climbed the view tower and could see LA from the top!
I was working there at the time and saw him too. Great concert.
I live pretty close to Terranea. I'm very sad that they didn't leave the ruins there....I would have loved to visit.
I went to Marineland when I was a kid. It's a shame it's gone.
Enjoyed the video
I remember visiting as a child.....
I remember the alligator Farm near Knotts Berry Farm, I remember Japanese. Also, my Grandpa worked at Marineland as a janitor.
I live 5 min. from the old site. I used to go there ALL the time as a child. I always hoped that they would use it as a marine rescue center.
Marineland was one of my earliest childhood memories. I couldn't wait to be old enough to swim in Baja Reef.. then they went and closed it. Bastards.
I knew it from 2 hilarious episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies.
Music is too loud, can't hear the commentary.
Marine Land here in Florida is now a Dolphin conservatory. you can pay to go there still and swim with the dolphins. it is also available for weddings and events.
I took a group of elementary school kids there just before it closed. Now they have apartments on that spot. And this is called "progress."
I went there at least once when I was a kid. On the way back, I remember stopping at a store that sold reptiles. Maybe someone knows what that store was, etc.. I've always wondered.
Now, back to Marine World:
I went there a few weeks before it closed. There was a dolphin in a "relatively" small cement tank. It wasn't swimming much. I told an employee. They said it was sick and that they were aware of it. I stood next to the tank, near the dolphin. It was almost close enough for me to touch. I felt so bad for it and so helpless and upset about the lack of attention it was getting from staff! Now, I'm a much more assertive person. If I saw something like that now, I would have done whatever I had to do (go up the chain of people responsible for animal care, etc., contact the media, take photos, get online to network with people who could help make sure they were doing the right things in caring for the dolphin to find out exactly what was going on and follow up on whatever it was. I have no idea what happened to that wonderful creature.
I went there on the LAST DAY Marine World was open. :-( Very, very sad. A great loss in so many ways.
if your talking of the place on PCH @Hawthorne Blvd, t was called the Reptile Farm in the 60's... know also for its Peacocks, I don't quite remember, there may have been a reptile place in Portuguese Bend...
The store you mentioned was probably Hermosa Reptile. I remember going there a long time ago.
They discovered the Dolphins were going crazy because of the acoustics in the tanks. Even the rain hurt them. It was also uncharted territory for food and water quality was impossible to recreate in such an artificial setting. It was a huge learning curve at the expense of so many amazing mammals.
This was 2 years ago.What does the place look like now?I went to the park in the late 1970's and enjoyed it,esp.feeding the seals.I know this place closed and fancy homes were built on part of the land and the other part had a rehab center.
My uncle used to have a house on the side of the mountain straight across The highway from Marineland and you can see what was going on right out the front porch
oh cool... i want to visit the place now!
@Lockbar Sorry to hear about that. I guess the employee wasn't the Amusement Park type.
I still have my cartoon portrait from Marineland circa 1980. You know where you sit and an artist draws a cartoon version of you lol. I worked around that peninsula a few years ago at Trump golf course but is that where it was?
Me and my ex went in 1986 right after we met and it was kind of small, but we had fun.
I remember Marineland. Went there before. What's next? Knott's Berry Farm?
I was there several times and you see it very often on old TV.
@barmtrail Hi. Same here. What is POP? I moved from LA to Seattle also, about two years ago, having lived in Seattle before. Then there was the Pike in Long Beach. I am done with the southland for the rest of my life.
Closer to L.A. Between San Pedro and all the south bay beaches (Torrance, Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan).
sad it's gone ,i heard when it was sold in 1987 the new owner promised to keep it open, but didnt ?. i remember the movie ''LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE '' starring ''ELVIS '' was partly filmed at Marine land !!
really nice homes and a veryyy nice hotel called " terranea" is gonna be done in july.
@backdraft57
The proximity to all that salt water doesn't help. Salt actually disintegrates masonry by penetrating it, and once within the crystal continue growing until the structure disintegrates. The salt can be carried on the wind, in bird droppings, and so on. In fact, the excrement of some birds (such as pigeons) carries high quantities of amonia and salt, which when it comes in contact with steel actually initiates an electro-chemical process that accelerates corrosion.
what happend to the pool that onced housed corky and orky?
are thre pools still standing?
hi tiger..I'm mike and I was a security guard there!!
I was taken there in 1977
have been to Marineland in Palos Verdes Peninsula, before they turned the park into the Terranea Resort, i almost got caught onces but blended in with the mexican fishermen, & took the dangerous coast road to Portuguese bay !
awwww...that's cute...
Miss that place
I've been here! Many Many years ago. My uncle said about a couple years before they closed.
What happened to the condos they were supposed to build?
In an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" the Clampetts visited Marineland and wanted to know if there were Marines there.
I've been there since it was closed. Eery. Lots of cool orb weaver spiders. Spider paradise.
I remember going there more then Disneyland back in the 80s.
fond memories of the place, before corporate greed, ie, Harcourt, Brace (who owned Sea World) bought it, then closed. a damn shame. I loved that place
actually this is not completely true. part of the park now serves as a non-profit marine life preserve where they rescue and treat marine animals (mostly seals and sea lions) to then release back into the wild.
I grew up in Redondo Bch an Marineland was used by the schools for field trips as was the Long Bch Aquarium, I manage to take my son to Marineland before it closed back in 82. I was shocked an sadden when they closed it. I refuse to go to Sea World it has neither the charm or the close feeling that Marineland had. In the end it was a lose for the children of California....
that makes me want to cry:*(
0:59 is my fav :D
yes man, i used to rip dirt bikes and paintball and shit in there. good stuff, there was even a perfect pool to skate in.
Tears
I know the orca Corky :) I interact with her everytime I go to SeaWorld, shes such a sweetie
Makes me want to cry and I've never even been there. T_T
why is it abandon?
Yeah, Marineland got its ass handed to it by Sea World.
sooo sad....
I have fond memories of Marineland
Omg!....I was still no one :( thats why i didnt know Marineland...I live in Canada And im wondering why they closed Marineland? This video is posted 2007 and im born 2008 so its 1 year before me alive and born
This is where they Shot the Movie Pirates of the Caribbean, The Black Pearl
I only went there once, but have the memories. I remember swimming in the baja reef I think it was called. Good times! Hell, they even ruined Sea World once Anheiser Busch took over. It's too much of a wannabe theme park and it blows! I only go cause it's free to military every year. Knott's isn't the same either. Stupid greed!!!
@ihatestupidsignups yeah, me too.
Sea World San Diego bought Marineland LA and closed it.
***** ***** you guys ought to do a video of the remains of this place soon.
The ruins are long gone. It's a hotel resort now called Teranea Resort, very nice place. www.terranea.com/los-angeles-resort-photos
Yeah, about that, commented about this year's ago, now I know things have changed since then. Lol Still though, would've been cool before the resort went in...oh well.
Is that the actor James Remar narrating this video?
@RacerFan12 - It was located on Palos Verdes Drive South in Rancho Palos Verdes. The new Terranea Resort (built by Donald Trump) is now located on the property.
WE USE 2 GO THERE
Everything is overbuilt these days. Nothing is left subtle and clean. Most new buildings are ugly as shit. This Faux Mediterranean look is horrendous and only proves that money does not buy you taste.
so sad
I live right next to it there buliding a resort
Yes, I went there when it opened. I remember Bubbles the whale. Very big deal!! Yeah, that is el primo real estate. Greed is Good...NOT!
@barmtrail Pup n Taco
Sad
its gone, i think housing is being built ..go on goole earth and see whats left ,sad
@barmtrail Keep in mind that every great memory you have "tragically" replaced someone else's great memory.
marineland africa usa!
Gosh I'm really surprised it looks this run down. Why we all know that everything is getting better and those silly entropy laws don't really apply. Since man has been able to continually build himself up from some goo it would seem that this complex would be getting better and better and not falling apart. Oh wait, I forgot, those silly entropy laws apply to EVERYTHING except living creatures, how silly of me.