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I passed by The National Aquarium earlier today and I took this picture.
As a former surfer, I always have had a soft spot in my heart for sharks, sea turtles and fish etc...
Apparently they are closing in September to make space for a new condo and retail development.
So now DC is gentrifying aquatic life too?

Memo to Wes_Tiny_Abe -- Stuff changes. Get over it.

End of memo.

Round up all the gentry, fly them to the beach, drop them off 100 yards from the shore and let the hammerheads deal with them.

I live a few minutes from this aquarium and it's absolutely abysmal. I drive all the way to Baltimore and pay that outrageous fee to go to that one instead. I'd still rather do that than go to the one in DC because the one in DC is simply a waste of time and tax payer money. Good riddance.

A bowl or a ziplock bag with a single goldfish swimming inside of it is still 10,000 times more interesting than a CVS opening up a few blocks away from guess what?

Another CVS.

TGW wrote:I live a few minutes from this aquarium and it's absolutely abysmal. I drive all the way to Baltimore and pay that outrageous fee to go to that one instead. I'd still rather do that than go to the one in DC because the one in DC is simply a waste of time and tax payer money. Good riddance.

This is what I've always heard so I've never been. Now that I've been to a number of Ripley's aquariums, I don't love the Baltimore one so much. But yeah, I've never heard good stuff about the DC one. The zoo has a decent one in the amazon exhibit though.

sfam wrote:

TGW wrote:I live a few minutes from this aquarium and it's absolutely abysmal. I drive all the way to Baltimore and pay that outrageous fee to go to that one instead. I'd still rather do that than go to the one in DC because the one in DC is simply a waste of time and tax payer money. Good riddance.

This is what I've always heard so I've never been. Now that I've been to a number of Ripley's aquariums, I don't love the Baltimore one so much. But yeah, I've never heard good stuff about the DC one. The zoo has a decent one in the amazon exhibit though.

I used to like that aquarium. When I was a little kid. A million years ago. But you're walking down the street, and suddenly you realize you need a candy bar or a condom, or both. How's the National Aquarium going to help?

You can't buy coke on Hanover Street anymore, and there hasn't been a murder there in years! Pretty soon there will probably be some cutely named microbrewery/burlesque revue place there. Boy I miss the old days.

The DC Aquarium isn't the same scale as the Baltimore aquarium, but it is actually pretty good for what it is.

It is too bad to see it leaving. The Amazonia has to be one of my favorites. One problem it has is idiots dropping some of their unwanted non-Amazonian fish in the exhibits.

I didn't find the aquarium to be very impressive even for what it was. It was essentially stuck in the basement of a building, and had the nerve to charge something like $12 admission fee. I always wondered how it clawed onto funding. The money should be siphoned off to expand the zoo.

How is the DC National Aquarium so terrible while the DC National Zoo is absolutely amazing? Location?

montestewart wrote:

sfam wrote:

TGW wrote:I live a few minutes from this aquarium and it's absolutely abysmal. I drive all the way to Baltimore and pay that outrageous fee to go to that one instead. I'd still rather do that than go to the one in DC because the one in DC is simply a waste of time and tax payer money. Good riddance.

This is what I've always heard so I've never been. Now that I've been to a number of Ripley's aquariums, I don't love the Baltimore one so much. But yeah, I've never heard good stuff about the DC one. The zoo has a decent one in the amazon exhibit though.

I used to like that aquarium. When I was a little kid. A million years ago. But you're walking down the street, and suddenly you realize you need a candy bar or a condom, or both. How's the National Aquarium going to help?

You can't buy coke on Hanover Street anymore, and there hasn't been a murder there in years! Pretty soon there will probably be some cutely named microbrewery/burlesque revue place there. Boy I miss the old days.

Are you talking about all of the recent transplants who are quick to wave the DC flag but they are not even from DC and have been living in DC for less than 5 years?

Yes! They have no respect for Hanover Street, where men were men and coke was coke.

I've never heard of this aquarium. However, I have heard of CVS. Seems like they're making the right moves!

Halcyon wrote:I've never heard of this aquarium. However, I have heard of CVS. Seems like they're making the right moves!

Stands for Come Visit Soon!

When I was an elementary schooler I used to buy dairy products from trucks.
This was 30+ years before the current crop of disgusting gentrifiers and yups arrived here.

Does that make me an urban pioneer?

Not one pair of skinny jeans. Which one are you?

When I was an elementary schooler I used to walk my dog and ride my bicycle all over the streets of DC.
This was 30+ years before the current crop of disgusting gentrifiers and yups arrived here.

Does that make me an urban pioneer?

When Robert Brent became DC's first mayor in 1802, he likely spent time swatting away mosquitoes, powdering his wig and wearing knee-high stockings.

Urban pioneer.

Um, that entire building is owned by the Government. How can they build a condo there? That doesn't make sense.

And why are the leaves of the tree pinned behind the condo sign?

Wes. Photoshop trolling is lame.