The end of Marine World/Africa U.S.A. in Redwood Shores, like the beginning and everything in between, sounded completely made up.
The park announced its pending move to the North Bay, and the office buildings to rise in its place, at a press conference that was still a very Marine World scene.
“Vallejo and Marine World officials made the announcement in the park’s Killer Whale Theater,” the Chronicle reported on Sept. 19, 1984, “before an audience of dozens of Marine World employees, many of whom were holding parrots and monkeys.”…