Hugh Davis considered a black-and-white killer whale, but his wife, Zelta, picked blue. “We don’t have mean things,” she said, according to .
Davis, a zoologist, gave her the whale on Sept. 7, 1972, their 34th wedding anniversary, according to . He built it with his friend Harold Thomas, a welder, from steel rod and pipe covered in plaster and concrete, per Roadside America, which puts the whale at 80 feet long. “It took two years,” their son, Bill Davis, said, per NewsOn6…