Sea-Arama Marineworld Park At 91st St. & Seawall Blvd.

[memebag]

Mom: "Guess where we're going after church?

Me (at 5 years old): "Where?"

Mom: "We're going to Sea-Arama!"

Me: "Great. What's a 'Rama'?"

Mom: "No, bubba, we're not going to see a Rama, we're going to Sea-Arama!"

Me: "Um, OK. So ... what's a 'Rama', anyway?"

My dad laughed all the way to Galveston. Ever after we got there, I kept looking for the Rama.

[bcnet]

The bird's eye view on MSN live maps showed the remains of Sea-Arama pretty well. I remember taking a trip there in day care when I was a tike

Sea Arama

[KimberlySayWhat]

I reckon I looked at the wrong thing on Google maps, thinking it was Sea Arama, but after looking at that picture it's clearly not.

Poor old Sea Arama.

Anyway, I was in Galveston the other day and was wondering where it was and if it had been torn down yet.

I wonder why Galveston hasn't opened another Sea Arama/Sea World-type park.

[Disastro]

I know for a fact my family has pics from there, but they are on slides. I could get them and scan them in...

Hmm...that gives me some ideas!

[plumber2]

I dated a girl in high school that worked there during summers performing in the water ski show.

[TexasJeep]

Sea arama is gone. It was tore down last year.

I walked through it a couple times last year while it was still there.

Here is a website dedicated to Sea Arama. It has pics and stuff.

http://www.seaarama.zoomshare.com/

[pachanga]

I dated a girl in high school that worked there during summers performing in the water ski show.

i skied there there the 1st summer of the shows...i wonder who she is??

Edited May 15, 2008 by pachanga

[NenaE]

I reckon I looked at the wrong thing on Google maps, thinking it was Sea Arama, but after looking at that picture it's clearly not.

Poor old Sea Arama.

Anyway, I was in Galveston the other day and was wondering where it was and if it had been torn down yet.

I wonder why Galveston hasn't opened another Sea Arama/Sea World-type park.

I know this is off-topic, but Kimberlysaywhat, I love your current signature, or should I say "Lost short-moving pic"... I just watched last weeks episode...Hurley is a really big guy, height-wise, towers over John Locke & Ben.

Oh, by the way, Sea-Arama has/had nice googie style architecture, semi-circle roofs.

Edited May 14, 2008 by NenaE

[missmsry]

I'm sorry, but considering the suffering and death those poor sea creatures endured, I have no fond memories of this place. Anyone remember the beluga whales imported in the late 1980s that died about 2 months later? This place was a joke and deserves to be gone.

Plus, I think the same architect who designed Sea-Arama must have designed my high school, Westchester. Same stupid arches.

[NenaE]

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Plus, I think the same architect who designed Sea-Arama must have designed my high school, Westchester. Same stupid arches.

Hmmm, obviously not a googie lover.

I was curious, so I looked it up.

Sea-Arama was designed by W.O. Gustafson (Architect). He also is credited with The Tidelands Inn, among other things. I can see a resemblance in the style.

As for Westchester Sr. High School - Koetter, Tharp & Cowell, arch. (AIA Arch Guide).

I never realized until today, while looking at the aerials, that Sea Arama was located so close to Scholes airport.

Edited February 11, 2011 by NenaE

[k5jri radio]

Sea-Arama Marineworld Park was one of the Galveston attractions I wanted to visit, but never "got around" to visiting before it closed.

Years later, I made several visits to Sea-Arama Marineworld Park, near St. Augustine FL, while working as a public school teacher. This was one of several attractions in the St. Augustine area that met my employers' requirement that all student field trip destinations must have legitimate educational content.