Weeki Wachee

We're used to music videos and adverts getting all the innovative direction, but that's not what's amazing about this video - it's the fact that it's a mini-documentary about a truly interesting subject, namely Weeki Wachee; 'City of Mermaids' in Florida.

Archive 2005-09-01 annawaits 2005

Norman Pallot, an 88-year-old retired attorney and registered Republican in Weeki Wachee, Fla., wrote a letter to his local paper excoriating GE for moving its X-ray business to China.

Tea-Party Attacks Put GE on Defense Kate Linebaugh 2011

And the money for new parks comes from the money from Weeki Wachee.

Wagman: No New Parks Peter Schorsch 2009

But every Halloween we do special shows and this past one I wrote the script for it and called it 'The Joker's Last Laugh: The End of Weeki Wachee'...and in this show I played Aquaman.

Archive 2009-01-01 rob! 2009

Unless I am reading it wrong, Mr. Wagman also seems to have forgotten that new park spending in St. Pete is partially financed by money from the city's deal on Weeki Wachee.

Wagman: No New Parks Peter Schorsch 2009

Weeki Wachee is one of those wonderful old bits of Florida that everyone needs to see at least once in their life time.

Listen to Jimmy Palmiotti #11: Return of Palmiotti!! 2009

If you want to be reminded of just how fetishistic our focus on our own safety was, consider a 2005 news article written for a Florida newspaper, "Weeki Wachee mermaids in terrorists 'cross hairs?"

Tom Engelhardt: Killing Civilians 2009

It figures that this would happen the one year that I didn't go to the Halloween celebration at Weeki Wachee!

Weeki Wachee Aquaman rob! 2009

Terror-prevention plans for Weeki Wachee may include adding surveillance cameras, installing lights in the parking lot and securing areas in the roadside attraction where there may be 'security breaches,' he said.

Tom Engelhardt: Killing Civilians 2009

But every Halloween we do special shows and this past one I wrote the script for it and called it 'The Joker's Last Laugh: The End of Weeki Wachee'...and in this show I played Aquaman.

Weeki Wachee Aquaman rob! 2009