Lizzy Tex Borden's

Here is a decal I bought at Marineland of the Pacific on

the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles, California.

Bubbles was their famous short-finned pilot whale.

I bought this decal sometime in the 1960s.

And by coincidence I just happen to have a picture that

I took at Marineland with my Polaroid Swinger Land

Camera! (It's almost as though I scanned a bunch of photos

lately, eh?) ML was home to two famous killer whales.

Their names were Orky and Corky. This was one of them.

I don't know which. My picture was taken in 1968.

Marineland has a sad history. The last time I was there

was around 1983 and it was really run down. The
park closed it's doors for good shortly thereafter.