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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) is the only combined zoo and aquarium in the Pacific Northwest, located in Tacoma, Washington, US, owned by Metro Parks Tacoma. Situated on 29 acres (12 ha) in Tacoma's Point Defiance Park , the zoo and aquarium are home to over 9,000 specimens representing 367 animal species .
The aquarium opened on June 22, 1962, during the Century 21 Exposition and was initially owned and operated by Ted Griffin. At the time he hoped that his aquarium would be a "prelude" to a Marineland. The aquarium was a 6,000 square foot building. The staff consisted of skin-divers and volunteers. The curator was Eric Friese. [1]
The terminal at the renamed Seattle–Tacoma International Airport was formally dedicated by Governor Arthur Langlie on July 9, 1949, in front of a crowd of 30,000 spectators. [18] The 71,000-square-foot (6,600 m 2 ) building, designed by architect Herman A. Moldenhour , included a rooftop control tower and glass courting walls in the concourses.
Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington, United States, is a large urban park.The 760-acre (3.1 km 2) park includes Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, the Rose Garden, Rhododendron Garden, beaches, trails, a boardwalk, a boathouse, a Washington State Ferries ferry dock for the Point Defiance-Tahlequah route to Vashon Island, Fort Nisqually, an off-leash dog park, and most notably about 400 acres ...
The effort by the Port of Seattle to verbally rebrand Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as “S-E-A” instead of “Sea-Tac” should be resisted. The City of Tacoma paid $100,000 toward the ...
The aquarium could not comply as all of the banks were closed. The Seattle Marine Aquarium was then contacted and Ted Griffin purchased the orca for $8,000. Reguald "Curly" Marinas designed a cage to tow the orca, named Namu, 450 miles (720 km) in a floating pen to captivity in Seattle. [12] [13]
A runaway barge broke free from its allocated dock and smashed into a pier in Seattle on Thursday 2 November. It was first seen moving towards Pier 62 and 63, near the Seattle Aquarium, prompting ...
The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on Pier 59 on the Elliott Bay waterfront. The aquarium opened in 1977 and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The aquarium consists of three buildings. Its original buildings at Pier 59 and Pier 60 have six major exhibits.