The Queen Mary has been a fixture in Long Beach since 1967. It was shuttered amid the pandemic in March 2020. Starting on December 15, 2022, the city offered limited numbers of one hour guided tours of the 1st class passenger areas.
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Carroll Park is one of the oldest Long Beach Historic Districts with homes built between 1898 and 1928. The Rose Park neighborhoods were first established in 1905. While many architectural styles are found, Craftsman is predominant.
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Eliot Lane is a diminutive Long Beach historic district comprised of a single block of small homes built by the Long Beach firm of Boland and Smith in 1923. The street provides a snapshot of Long Beach in the twenties.
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The Art Theatre originally opened as The Carter Theatre in 1925 as a single screen silent movie house. After the earthquake in 1933, the theatre was remodeled in an Art Deco streamline moderne style and renamed The Lee Theatre.
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From the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s, the sixteen-story Villa Riviera in Long Beach was the second-tallest building (only LA City Hall was taller), and the tallest private building, in Southern California.
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Built in 1958, Java Lanes was the oldest bowling alley in Long Beach and the last of the authentic Polynesian style bowling centers in So Cal. In 2004, the property was sold and Brookfield Homes built 79 condominiums on the site.
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In 1983, the Wrather Corporation, operator of the Queen Mary, built the world’s largest, free-span aluminum geodesic dome near by to house a new attraction – Howard Hughes’s Hercules H4 Flying Boat or Spruce Goose as the press dubbed it.
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