He must have been on something pretty good to imagine seals and walruses at the Baltimore Aquarium. They haven't had them in the years I've lived here.

md, how long have you been living here? as he said, it was 1994.

I don't remember any walruses, but they used to have seals in an outdoor area just around the corner from the main entrance. I saw them a few times in the early to mid 90s. I'm not certain, but I think they might have gotten rid of them when they started construction on the Australia addition.

Moby is high on life.

There were both harbor seals and grey seals. The grey seals are large, but no walrus - no tusks. http://www.greyseal.net/

They were the BEST! You could just stand and watch them play and sleep and then a trainer would come out and feed them. Sometimes, when they were asleep on the rocks, they'd start rolling over the edge, and would always catch themselves before they fell in.

They also had those gross pictures of a seal gut cut open and filled with pennies. It was to discourage kids (or dumb adults, I guess) from throwing pennies into the enclosure.

Oh wow, I remember that. The outdoor seal tank. It was really great. You could walk up to this area just past the entrance to the Aquarium and see all the seals swimming around and sleeping right out in the open. Man, you could never do that in this town today which is really sad. But, I think they were gone by 1994 though. That date seems really too late to me. I remember them in the early to mid 80's but that's it. Maybe I just quit going down there, I dunno.

And DJ Scott Henry. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Is he still around? Talk about memories. He's been in the gay dance music scene since way back. He first got his feet wet playing records at a long-gone dance bar on South Calvert Street called Marshall's. I would say he was about 22 years old then. I still have a cassette tape made from the dance floor in that bar that he recorded and autographed to me. Ain't that cute? I always wondered what happened to him. I guess he didn't become popular like Moby or Peter Rauhofer.

Next door to Marshalls was Calvert Street Cafe which has been closed for years too. Both of those places used to be packed to the walls on weekends back then. Those were some good times.

I remember the seal tank but I seem to recall it being there more recently. I haven't walked by there in a while but I know it was there after 2000.

and johnnycat it's nice to see you have something positive to say for a change. It's ok to be happy.....don't fight the feeling!

Oh Cardwell, I always have nice things to say, as long as people aren't being retarded. I wish the seals were back. I really liked seeing them. As far as Scott Henry goes, I don't know WHAT I was thinking about in those days.

I remember seals, walruses? I don't think so.