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In the days that followed people came in numbers beyond anyone's
wildest dreams—certainly far beyond the highest predictions. The
weeks, and especially the weekends, were incredibly busy, and the aquar-
ium and Cannery Row were packed with visitors. The two most com-
mon complaints were the crowds and the lack of parking.
Only a little over a month before our opening, the white shark had
been swimming around in the Monterey Bay Habitats exhibit. In a
way, it's just as well it didn't survive. If we'd opened with a healthy great
white shark on display, we would have had a logistical disaster on our
hands. I could just imagine the tra‹c jam extending from San Fran-
cisco to Monterey as people flocked to see the first-ever live “Jaws” in
a brand-new aquarium.
Many sta¤ had worked extremely hard on this aquarium for a year
to as many as six years. It was a good feeling to see the success of what
we'd created, but at the same time I think we all felt a bit of a letdown
after the opening—a sort of postpartum depression, if you will. The
anticipation that had kept us going was all of a sudden gone, and there
was nothing to take its place yet. Luckily, the feeling doesn't last long.
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