Sea World San Diego

ShamuMobile (Flickr user Mike Liu/CC)

Northbound Highway 101 left Old Town San Diego, jogged a bit to the west then moved north along the shores of Mission Bay. At the South end of Mission Bay we come upon one of San Diego's most famous attractions, Sea World.



Sea World opened in 1964. Highway 101 was shortened in 1966 to an official starting point in Los Angeles. Interstate 5 was opening in 1965 as the Main North/South highway in San Diego and Orange Counties running over largely the same route. At the same time the Interstate was being built, several large scale housing development were in the works for Northern San Diego. Tourism had been drawing huge crowds (and revenue) into Orange County to the North because of Disneyland in Anaheim and San Diego city leaders wanted in on the action.

A plan was drawn up by the city allow development of an aquatic theme park on the edge of the already resort lined Mission Bay. The marine theme fit in nicely with the cities beachfront location as well as it success with its world famous zoo in Balboa Park. Two proposals for a marine park were considered. One backed by the San Diego Union, was a park designed by a group of local businessmen. This was the odds on favorite,

The SeaLand concept park introduced the idea of having an orca performing in shows. The plan would have had the orcas swimming in mock battles with sharks. Never mind the fact that no one had successful kept an orca in captivity. And having two predators performing together and doing stunts, what could possibly go wrong? The proposal also had shows with dolphins, penguins, penguins riding on dolphins and other sorts of unlikely marine entertainment.

The underdog proposal was submitted by 4 recent UCLA graduates, George Millay, Milt Shedd, Ken Norris and David DeMott. They were living in Los Angeles. Also in Los Angeles, an existing operation called Marineland  had been running since 1949 on the relatively remote Palos Verdes Peninsula, Marineland had been started as an aquarium and educational facility in marine biology. Within a few years to keep up income from visitors the park added shows featuring a trained pilot whale, as well as dolphin shows such as several other aquarium facilities around the country featured.

Dolphin Shows Are Still Part Of The Marine Park Experience 
(Flickr user Alexis Fam/CC)

The Los Angeles' groups plans did not include an orca. Their more modest, but more realistic plan was to build an underwater restaurant underneath a large aquarium. They won the bid and were allowed to begin development. Soon it was found that some practical issues proved their original plan unfeasible. Instead a 22 acres park was built and filled with dolphin and seal shows, 6 rides  and a sort of a "Disneyland meets Marineland on Mission Bay" atmosphere.

The park was more "fun" than the more scholarly Marineland in Los Angeles. It had  easier access too due to the new highway for visitors driving down from Los Angeles or Orange Counties. With a large local base also curious about the big new park, its first year was huge success with over 400,000 visitors.

For over 50 years Sea World has continued to entertain visitors with exhibitions of trained sea animals, most famously their orca shows. Here is a series of home videos of families visiting Sea World since it's opening.



Sea World had great first year. It's fame would continue to grow when their first orca named Shamu broke the life longevity record for an orca. Before Shamu the longest lived orca in captivity was 13 months. Shamu lived and entertained Sea World guest from shortly after the the parks opening in 1965 until she finally passed away in 1971. Shamu's long captive life gave Sea World credibility at the time as a humane operation.

Orcas Put Sea World On The Map 
(Flickr user Andy Morales/CC)

As years passed, public opinion has changed on the humaneness of Sea World. The movie Free Willie had a significant effect on public opinion. Schoolchildren raised funds that led to the real life purchase and limited re-release in the wild of an orca named Keiko from a marine park in Mexico. Marine parks in general have gained a lot of scorn, and since Sea World the most famous Marine Theme park it has gotten particular attention from animal rights activists. in the last few years Sea World has seen a steady drop in attendance and frequent criticism for its operation and its very concept.

Sea World Has Been Criticized For Not Respecting The Dignity Of Their Animals
(Flickr user Channone Arif/CC)

As part of our look at Sea World I now offer you a virtual day at the park with video playlists of all of the currently operating attractions and shows being performed. If you like the idea of Sea World here is a free sampler. If you hate the idea of Sea World, you can see the animals and build up a righteous rage.

Cirque de la Mer Is A Non Animal Show
(Flickr user Mike Liu/CC)

The animal shows that made Sea World famous, and they are what is causing a public relations disaster for the part in recent years. The shows currently running are:

• One Ocean

The orca show.

• The Shamu Story

Another orca show

• Blue Horizons

A dolphin show

• Sea Lions LIVE

Yes, you guessed right, a sea lion show. Coupled with theme park caliber comedy.

• Pets Rule

Do I need to say it? A pet show.

• Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation

A song and dance numbers featuring costumed character from the animated film, Madagascar.

• Cirque de la Mer

Cirque de Soleil style show on the edge of Mission Bay with acrobats, jet skis, French clowns-you get the picture.

Journey To Atlantis
(Wikimedia Commons)

Regardless of your opinion of the trained animal shows, Sea World does have more to recommend it.Ten rides and attractions offer something for the more thrill oriented guests. Although sea life is never far away in the theming,

• Bayside Skyride

A classic gondola skyride that goes over the bay with stunning views.

• Journey to Atlantis

A unique attraction that combines a water flume ride and a tracked coaster ride connected by a bit of dark ride.

• Dolphin Point

A supervised "interact with dolphins" program.

• Sea World Sky Tower

On of the original attraction a sky needle that his a revolving deck that rises up along its length like an elevator. Excellent views of Mission Bay and San Diego reward the passengers.

• Sesame Street's Bay of Play

A playground/character area featuring theming and characters from Sesame Street. Toddler central.

• Shipwreck Rapids

A typical white water rafting ride with some elaborate shipwreck/storm theming.

• Turtle Reef

An underwater viewing are for a large sea turtle aquarium.

• Wild Arctic

A simulated helicopter ride take you to an arctic research station where you can see a beluga whale, look at scientists quarters, see walls of ice and polar bears before exiting through the obligatory gift shop.

• Riptide Rescue

A spinning ride with inflatable rescue boats as the theming.

• Manta

The other big coaster for Sea World beside Journey to Atlantis.

Playlist Additions

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A musical Sea World adventure of sorts. This weeks playlist is a fairly eclectic mix with everything from new wave to funk to french cafe jazz. The list has indie country-rock, 50's muzak, and marching bands. There is also has a modern interpretation of 1930's jazz soundtrack music, it has 60's psychedelic country rock, and 1980's English anarchist folk music. Then we move on to some harmonica blues, indie pop, sea chanty folk music and a beach fire folk singing. I hope you like it.

• Vacation Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's The Go-Go's 2:59
• Love Rollercoaster Funk Classics: The 70's, Vol. 2 Ohio Players 4:50
• Secrets Of The Sea Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 Billy Bragg & Wilco 2:42
• Aquarium Motifs Paris Combo 4:32
• The Calming Seas Beachwood Sparks Beachwood Sparks 3:20
• Music For Vacation Fun Sound 8 2:15 LINK
• Ocean Tide March American Brass Band Journal: A Collection of New and Beautiful Marches, Quick-Steps,and Polkas Arranged in an Easy Manner for Brass Bands of 12 Instruments Empire Brass 1:23
• On To The Show The Beau Hunks Play The Original Little Rascals Music The Beau Hunks 0:50
• Dolphin's Smile The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Byrds 2:00
• Dolphins Don't Try This At Home Billy Bragg 4:20
• Walking Thru The Park SuperHarps II Carey Bell 4:30
• Vacation Connie Francis 2:20
• Rollercoaster Post-War M. Ward 2:49
• The Whale Weighting Anchor Shanghaied On The Willamette 6:38
• Only The Ocean To The Sea Jack Johnson 3:39

Signing Off And Coming Attractions

Today's visit to Sea World is not about taking a stance pro or con on the ethics of an operation like this, I have my opinions, but would like to keep this blog as non partisan as possible, The fact is, this is a notable stop on our journey that could not be bypassed for reasons of avoiding controversy. Have you pleasant experiences about Sea World? I'd love to hear about them in the comments.

• Next Week: More from Vero Beach as we visit the McKee Botanical Gardens before continuing North through Florida on Interstate 95.

• Two Weeks: The story of the Blues Brothers continues to be our focus in the never ending tour of Chicago at the start of Route 66 in Illinois,

• Three Weeks: We move North out of San Diego through the first geographical challenge of many we will encounter as we continue North on the old Highway 101 in California.

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Napoleones Pizza and Tom Waits Early Years

Hello and welcome back to Old Highway Notes. The last time we touched down on Highway 101 we visited National City, California. Between San Diego and the Mexican border it is the home of Mojo Nixon sidekick Skid Roper. But another legendary artist of Americana musician came from this same California town. His name? Tom Waits.

One of America's most unique performers, Tom Waits. has been described as the musical equivalent of Jack Kerouac's prose or Charles Bukowski's poetry. I like that description. Lyrically, Tom Waits songs paint pictures of the seedy side of modern urban life. He tells hard luck stories of drunks, hobos and prostitutes. Musically he considers his voice to be his instrument and it is a unique one. Raw and worn, whiskey rasped and smoke damaged his voice can be a bit of a warbled uneven croak at times, but always with a certain after hours rat pack vibe that lets you know a tumbler of bourbon is likely nearby.

He was not born in National City, but in Pomona, the  Los Angeles suburb that hosts the Los Angeles County Fair every summer. Perhaps that is where he the almost "evil carnival" sounds of some of his music took root. His family moved around a bit and his father was reported to be an unreliable alcoholic who could have later been a subject of one of his sons songs. At the age of ten, Tom's father left him and his mother and never returned. Moving to National City, his mother settled down to start a new life.

Like many children of divorce, Tom Waits felt that he had to assume duties as the man of the house. He was young and it took him a while but at the age of 15 he got a job. He found work as a dishwasher at a pizza place called Napoleones Pizza House. That pizza place was located on National Blvd. That is old Highway 101 on the north end of town. It was close to the San Diego Naval base and sailors on shore leave would flood the strip of bars on National Blvd. stoking the jukebox and behaving with the notorious abandon of sailors on leave.

The website Tom Waits Library gathered a nice collection of quotes made by Waits about Napoleones and his National City days from various song introductions, here are a few of my favorites:

Tom Waits (1974) introducing The Ghosts Of Saturday Night: "It's about National City which is primarily a sailor town, a suburb of San Diego, where the infamous Mile Of Cars is on National Avenue and at the north end of National Ave is the Burge Roberts Mortuary and the Golden Barrel, Escalante's Liquor Store, sandwiched in between a Triumph Motorcycle shop and Burge Robert's is Napoleone's Pizza House, it's been there for a good 25 years and I worked there when I was real young. I've worked since I was 15 there and I guess not till I was away from it for a long time I could really sit down and write something constructive about it. This is called Ghosts Of Saturday Night or Looking Out From Napoleone's." 

Tom Waits (1975) introducing The Ghosts Of Saturday Night: "After I quitted (I was working on a Mobil station) and I was fifteen, eh I started working as a dishwasher and a cook at a place called Napoleone's Pizza House. And eh, worked there for years, for Joe Sardo and Sal Crivello, and eh it was a gas. Ehm well, like every night about eh 4 o'clock in the morning, all the white vinyl booted gogo dancers and all the sailors would come over about a quarter o' four. And eh just about that time Joe would go out in front just to check out the traffic on the street. You know, he would like leave his paper hat and he'd fold his apron and he would go out and stand in front of Napoleone's. Across the street from The Golden Barrel and Escalani's Liquor and Mario's Pizza. There's a Shell station right on the corner, and a Westerner and a Club-29, and a Melody Club, Phil's Porno and Iwo Jima Eddie's tattoo-parlor. And there'd be a cab out there combing the snake..." 

Tom Waits (1975): "National City is this naugahyde town in Southern California and it's a sailor town, lots of vinyl white booted go go dancers, I worked until 4 in the morning in a pizza house as a cook, started off as a dishwasher, worked for Sal Crivello and Joe Sardo, worked there for 5 years as a matter of fact. That's where the mile of cars is, that's where I got snookered in a deal for $125, I bought a 1955 Buick Roadmaster down there."

Tom Waits (1999): "When I was fourteen I worked in an Italian restaurant in a sailor town. Across the street was a Chinese place, and we'd trade food. I'd take a pizza to Wong's, they'd give me Chinese food to bring back. Sometimes Wong would tell me to sit in the kitchen, where he's making all this food up. It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his co-workers. I felt like I'd been Shanghaied. I used to love going there."

Tom Waits (1983) on Soldier's Things: "I worked in National City in a crummy restaurant for a long time, full of soldiers most every night, tattoo parlor next door, country-and-western diner-dance type of place down the street, Chinese restaurant, Chinese laundry, pool hall all real close, walking distance. So I called up some of my memories of that time. Sit out on the sidewalk, wearing the apron, paper hat, watching the traffic go by, you know?" 

Napoleones on Google Street View

Tom Waits featured scenes of San Diego life in many of his early albums, but Napoleones got its own song. From the 1974 album The Heart Of Saturday Night, Waits describes the early mornings when the party was over."Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza Parlor)".Lyrics cited from TWencyclopedia:

A cab combs the snake, tryin' to rake in that last night's fare
And a solitary sailor, who spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers
Paws his inside pea coat pocket for a welcome twenty-five cents
And the last bent butt from a package of Kents
As he dreams of a waitress with Maxwell House eyes
And marmalade thighs with scrambled yellow hair
Her rhinestone-studded moniker says "Irene"
As she wipes the wisps of dishwater blond from her eyes

And the Texaco beacon burns on
The steel-belted attendant with a ring and valve special crying
'Fill 'er up and check that oil
You know it could be your distributor and it could be your coil'

The early morning final edition is on the stands
And the town crier is crying there with nickels in his hands
Pigs in a blanket, sixty-nine cents
Eggs, roll 'em over, and a package of Kents
Adam and Eve on a log, you can sink 'em down straight
Hash browns, hash browns, you know I can't be late

And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamonds
Across a cash crop car lot, filled with twilight Coupe Devilles
Leaving the town in the keeping
Of the one who is sweeping
Up the ghosts of Saturday night 

In 1970, Tom Waits began performing around San Diego. In November he would have his first paid gig at the Heritage Coffee House in San Diego. He would also begin taking the Greyhound bus up what was once Highway 101 to Los Angeles. From there he would take the local city bus to Hollywood where he would perform at the legendary Troubadour Theater open mic nights that attracted the cream of the LA country rock scene such as the Eagles, Jackson Brown, Linda Ronstadt, and James Taylor, who was living in Hollywood at the time. Talent scouts and studio owners would drink and hang out with the up and coming stars and the no name artist who showed up to get their 20 minutes of fame.

In 1971 he got tired of the commute and moved to the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. And that is where we end the story of Tom Waits in National City. Shortly after moving to LA he was signed by Asylum records. He would produce seven records for them that we drunken boozy affairs and often painted noir images of the late nights he lived in National city when the fleet was in and the cabs would cruise the night. His success afforded him the opportunity to become as degenerate as the characters in his songs.Many of the songs of that era were reminiscent of his San Diego/National City days. To our play list we add...

Album: The Heart Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

• New Coat Of Paint 3:23
• San Diego Serenade 3:30
• Semi Suite 3:29
• Shiver Me Timbers 4:26
• Diamonds On My Windshield 3:12
• (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night 3:53
• Fumblin' With The Blues 3:02
• Please Call Me, Baby 4:25
• Depot Depot 3:46
• Drunk On The Moon 5:06
• The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza Parlor) 3:16

The 1980's would move Tom further from his San Diego days. In 1980 he married Kathleen Brennan, a screenwriter, whom he had met while working on the set of the Francis Ford Coppola movie One from the Heart. With his new wife's encouragement, he gave up drinking. Unimpressed by the small size and lack of variety other than jazz in his record she encouraged him to explore a wide variety of unusual recording from  her collection. It included such items as German film scores, Asian percussion, and Captain Beefheart. In 1983, he would release Swordfishtrombones on Polygram records. At her suggestion, the record was made and released without any consultation or approval of his agents, music label agents, or really anyone except himself. It signaled a new sound, leaving behind his sloppy drunk crooner persona and becoming more of a cinematic storyteller with a variety of musical influences. It would be very successful and signaled a new stage in his career that included a fair amount of film work both in soundtracks and on screen, several very successful albums for Polygram, the creation of many one-of-a-kind musical instruments and an evolution in the public eye from being a cult classic drunkard to the status of a mythical storyteller who defines a down and out side of America with as much authority as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, or Woody Guthrie. In 2011, he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame and still continues to perform and record.



His turning point album gets the playlist addition this week...

Album: Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits

• Underground 2:01
• Shore Leave 4:18
• Dave The Butcher 2:20
• Johnsburg, Illinois 1:33
• 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six 4:33
• Town With No Cheer 4:28
• In The Neighborhood 3:07
• Just Another Sucker On The Vine 1:46
• Frank's Wild Years 1:54
• Swordfishtrombone 3:08
• Down, Down, Down 2:16
• Soldier's Things 3:20
• Gin Soaked Boy 2:24
• Trouble's Braids 1:18
• Rainbirds 3:13

Thanks for joining us for this weeks Old Highway Notes. Next week we will be returning to Miami and Interstate 95. Two weeks out will take us back to Chicago on Route 66 where the blues just keep on coming. Then, in just 3 short week s we will return to San Diego County and the route the old Highway 101 took before the Interstate changed things. Until we meet again, keep looking for the heart of Saturday night.

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National City and a Mile of Cars

Hello and welcome back to Old Highway Notes. This week we continue our drive up the old Highway 101 in San Diego County, California. Last week week we toured Chula Vista and the old highway route as described on the site EFGH.com, I marked the turn they mention on the map with a pin to help you see it.

mile 04.63 - Cross over the Otay River and enter Chula Vista. Old U.S. 101 becomes Broadway.
mile 08.87 - Enter National City. Old U.S. 101 becomes National City Blvd.
mile 10.57 - Turn left onto Civic Center Dr.
mile 10.93 - Pass under Interstate 5 and turn right onto Harbor Dr., which was part of Old U.S. 101. It has bike lanes in most places, although the pavement is quite rough in spots. Be especially careful when crossing railroad tracks.

As Broadway enters National City becoming National City Blvd, very little is there to show you that this was once the main North/South Highway in the area. The area is now the "Mile of Cars" and one of the more popular places to place a car dealership in San Diego County. It is pleasant enough and evokes Southern California since few things are more emblematic of Southern California than palm trees and cars. If you were there you would find you were close enough to the ocean to smell salt in the air. This video from Chula Vista Productions provides us with a view out the windshield.

Skid Roper, Mojo Nixon's Sidekick

Stay with me here. National City makes me think of cars. Cars make me think of Hot Rods. Hots Rods Make me think of Rockabilly Music. Rockabilly music makes me think of the 80's. The 80's make me think of MTV. All of which make me think about the comedic cult roots rocker Mojo Nixon. Mojo Nixon makes me think of his straight man sidekick and band mate Skid Roper. Skid Roper makes me think of National City because this is where he came from.

Richard Banke was born in 1954 in National City, CA. He first achieved prominence in 1983 when he began performing in dive bars in the San Diego area with his musical partner Neill McMillan. Richard would use the stage name Skid Roper and Neil would perform under the pseudonym Mojo Nixon. Skid was the sort of the straight man and sidekick to Mojo, who was the real star of the act. He would accompany Mojo on washboard, mandolin and other instruments. In 1984 they released a demo following up with their debut album in 1985. The description found on the YouTube Mojo Nixon Theme Page describe him well:

One of the most outsized personalities on college radio in the '80s, Mojo Nixon won a fervent cult following with his motor-mouthed redneck persona and a gonzo brand of satire with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Nixon had a particular knack for celebrity-themed novelty hits ("Elvis Is Everywhere," "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child," "Don Henley Must Die"), but he was prone to gleefully crass rants on a variety of social ills ("I Hate Banks," "Destroy All Lawyers," "I Ain't Gonna Piss In No Jar"), while celebrating lowbrow, blue-collar America in all its trashy, beer-soaked glory. All of it was performed in maximum overdrive on a bed of rockabilly, blues, and R&B, which earned Nixon some friends in the roots rock community but had enough punk attitude -- in its own bizarre way -- to make him a college radio staple during his heyday.

The duo would record a half dozen albums before splitting in 1989. Each continuing on with other projects, neither with a lot of success (although Mojo seemed to do better). They have reunited a few times recently for special occasions. Skid still lives in  National City and performs with Skid Roper Band in the San Diego area.

Playlist Additions

I like Mojo Nixon a lot. He is definitely a pioneer of the alt country sound and his songs were sort of like Weird Al Yankovik except that played Americana originals rather than polka parodies. Like Yankovik it could be some of the funnier stuff on MTV back in the 80's when the station still played videos. I am almost emabarassed about the fact that I only have one official release and one live audience recording in my collection. The additions to this week list are:

Album: Root Hog Or Die Mojo Nixon and Skip Roper 1989

• Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two Headed Love Child 2:07 
• (619) 239-King 6:02 
• This Land Is Your Land 6:00 
• Pirate Radio 3:21 
• Chicken Drop 5:58 
• Tennesse Jive 2:39 
• Louisiana Liplock 4:19 
• I'm A Wreck 2:45 
• Legalize It 2:28 
• Burn Your Money! 5:17 
• Circus Mystery 3:35 
• She's Vibrator Dependent 5:04 
• High School Football Friday Night 6:56  

Album: 1985-12-29 - Safari Sam's Mojo Nixon and Skip Roper

• Twilight's Last Gleaming 4:25
• I'm In a Gin Guzzlin' Frenzy 3:43
• Stuffin' Martha's Muffin 3:56
• Moanin' With Your Momma 5:24
• I Hate Banks 5:16
• Buzzard Blues (Skid Roper) 4:08
• Rockin' Religion 5:20
• Mushroom Mania 4:40 
• Jesus At McDonald's 6:37

Moving On

National City gave the world Skip Roper, but it also sent a far more successful artist into the world as well. Join us in 3 weeks as we return to old Highway 101 in San Diego County for more Old Highway Notes. Don't forget to stop by next week when we return to Interstate 95 in Miami to close out our prelude to destruction in the hippie scene. In two weeks we will back Chicago on Route 66 looking at the history of blues music in that city. Thanks for stopping by and until we meet again, "Hi-ho mateys yo! Turn on the Pirate Radio, land of the free and home of the brave, FCC crawl in your grave. Crawl in there, you lily-livered scabs!"

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