Andrew
05-27-2005, 03:07 PM
New Monterey Bay Aquarium exhibit opens (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/central_coast/11756601.htm) -- Mercury News, 2005-05-27
When it opened in 1984, the Monterey Bay Aquarium wowed the public with its canning-factory look and convention-shattering Near Shore exhibits -- the round tanks where anchovies swirled, the seabirds imprinting the sands of the aviary ``beach,'' the world's only indoor kelp forest.
Top of the polls in a recent Zagat survey of family attractions and No. 1 in attendance, the aquarium nevertheless keeps reinventing itself. It doubled in size and added the world's largest indoor tank a dozen years after its launch. Last year it paid tribute--with a permanent exhibit--to the Hovden Cannery, packer of Portola brand sardines, the original occupant of the aquarium site and model for its look.
When it opened in 1984, the Monterey Bay Aquarium wowed the public with its canning-factory look and convention-shattering Near Shore exhibits -- the round tanks where anchovies swirled, the seabirds imprinting the sands of the aviary ``beach,'' the world's only indoor kelp forest.
Top of the polls in a recent Zagat survey of family attractions and No. 1 in attendance, the aquarium nevertheless keeps reinventing itself. It doubled in size and added the world's largest indoor tank a dozen years after its launch. Last year it paid tribute--with a permanent exhibit--to the Hovden Cannery, packer of Portola brand sardines, the original occupant of the aquarium site and model for its look.