3/21/2024 0 Comments Mary Pickford grateful dead fontThere are a wide variety of tours available from group tours to private tours and self guided tours focusing on everything from history and demonstrations of how the ship works to haunted late night tours. The Queen Mary combines exquisite craftsmanship with the latest modern technology of her time creating beautiful and interesting art deco spaces. I though I would just call it a night but instead I wanted to explore the wonderful vessel and learn all about it’s secrets.Īs an architect I was in complete awe of the ship’s beauty a perfect example of the industrial design aesthetics of the era. I arrived to what would be my home for the night after a incredibly long day, I was exhausted, but as soon I walked into the lobby of the Queen Mary I felt as if I had just walked into a time warp and the excitement and awe as I walked the wood paneled corridors towards my room made me forget how tiered I was. The Queen Mary dry docked at the Long Beach harbor is now a living museum and hotel. Only 3 years after she set sail World War II broke out and she was transformed into a troopship and her passenger capacity was increased from 2,410 to 5,500 at one time setting the record for caring the most people ever on a floating vessel when she transported 16,683 troops. The Queen Mary hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, David Niven, Mary Pickford, George and Ira Gershwin, and Sir Winston Churchill, among others and held the record for the fastest-ever North Atlantic crossing. This grand ocean liner was considered by the world’s rich and famous as the only civilized way to travel across the Atlantic. In 1967 she was acquired by the city of Long Beach and she has been resting in the Long Beach harbor since. Built in Scotland for the Cunard Steamship Company, the RMS Queen Mary first sailed in 1936 and until she was retired in the 1960s, she crossed the Atlantic 1,001 times. The Queen Mary is a colossal ship: bigger, faster and more powerful than the Titanic. ![]() As I research I was genuinely intrigued by the thought that a part of history, a piece of a bygone era, was now a living museum you could not only tour but could also stay the night at and I knew this was an experience that I did not want to miss out on. I have to admit that when I first planned my trip to Long Beach I did not know much about the Queen Mary.
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