On June 23, 1938, more than 30,000 cars clogged Florida’s State Road A1A south of St. Augustine to attend the grand opening of an attraction unlike anything that had ever existed in the world. It was called Marine Studios. It was promoted as “the world’s first oceanarium,” a brand-new word coined to describe what Marine Studios actually was. And it had been built, at staggering expense, by an unlikely group of investors that included a great-gre…
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