Thanks to a billion-dollar clean-up, downtown Long Beach is not the seedy stomping grounds of off-duty sailors that it was twenty-odd years ago. Pine Avenue is an enjoyable stretch of restored architecture and bargain antique stores, but the only reason most tourists cross to the far side of LA's massive harbor is to see the Queen Mary (daily 10am6pm; $19 guided tours, kids $15). The Cunard flagship from the 1930s until the 1960s, the Queen Mary is now a luxury hotel, and guided tours present a sentimentalized version of its days of elegance and refinement. The huge geodesic dome nearby housed Howard … more »
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