{"id":1708,"date":"2012-02-08T02:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2023-07-13T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:56:59","slug":"remember-way-back-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/remember-way-back-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember way back when?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/6838927993\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7153\/6838927993_759e7eb0de.jpg\" alt=\"Remember way back when?\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, there was a time when this drawing was correct: Great America was owned by Marriott, and there was a theme park called Marine World in Redwood City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotel company Marriott built Great America and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_Flags_Great_America\">its sister park<\/a> (also called Great America) but eventually sold off both parks. Neither of them have &#8220;Marriott&#8221; in the name anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marine_World\/Africa_USA\">Marine World<\/a> merged with another park and became Marine World\/Africa USA. The park moved to Vallejo in the mid 80&#8217;s and eventually became Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. The former location in Redwood Shores is now home to Oracle and a few other tech companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My, how times have changed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Drawing spotted in Balompie Cafe.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there was a time when this drawing was correct: Great America was owned by Marriott, and there was a theme park called Marine World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Remember way back when? - MrEricSir.com","description":"Yes, there was a time when this drawing was correct: Great America was owned by Marriott, and there was a theme park called Marine World in Redwood City. Hotel"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[35,699,701,700,38],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-16thmission","tag-balompiecafe","tag-greatamerica","tag-marineworld","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10218,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}