Following Up: Whales, Pandemic Gothic, S-Mart and More

Since I started with the whole garden-and-stream thing a few years back, I’ve taken to updating existing posts instead of writing new ones when following up. That’s great for someone looking back at the old post from the future, but it doesn’t help anyone who’s following along. So here are some pages I’ve updated recently: The whale sculpture recovered from Marineland still hasn’t been installed at Point Vicente, a decade after it was approved, probably due to the higher-than-expected cost for restoring it. In trying to find out what happened with the sculpture, I discovered that Sea World’s midnight orca heist was actually worse than previous articles had suggested. The camera shop with its masked American Gothic mural from the early months of Covid has since been demolished, along with a nearby bowling alley, to make way for a blocky lump of “luxury apartments.” Silvio’s still hasn’t found a new retail location, but they’ve been running an online/phone business out of a warehouse…