Post #748250 by mike and marie on Thu, Jul 30, 2015 6:47 PM

On 2005-05-18 03:23, Sabina wrote:
This thread brought back a lot of memories- of the Sea World at Geauga Lake/Aurora in Ohio. I believe they also had an Hawai'ian themed area with Tikis and a Hula show- my visits would have been back in the early 70's.

We also had the Pearl divers, a japanese pavillion of some kind, and an outstanding waterski show- but hey, I was small back then...maybe it wasn't as amazing as I remember.

In any case- this may also be another root of Ohio Tiki heritage. After all- Hula and Cleveland- two words you cewrtainly don't automaticly associate.

Sabina, they did have a Tiki area, a Hawaiian Punch Village just like the San Diego location -- and it was an OA install!

We'd love to see photos of this and the Tiki Gift Shop. Both of us went here as kids, and we recently found our family's Super8 footage of Sea Worlds visits. We got them scanned and only hope our parents had tiki radar, too ... I guess we'll find out as soon as we watch them!

We recently picked up these large benches and giant clam shells from Sea World: