In a message dated 12/3/00 3:49:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< The Queen Mary is half a mile or so from downtown Long Beach,
 which has a dozen hotels and motels surrounding a convention  >>

This is much like all those tales tour guides spin, but when I lived a 1/4
mile south of the location of the Queen Mary (not there then), the notorious
Pike held the spot. The entire are crawled with sailors, prostitutes, and
other denizens of the night. But that was in the early 1950s. The area where
the hotels are now located is quite upper class now.

Ron May
Legacy 106, INc.