Queen Mary, City Hall, and Boxes
Categories: 101 in 1001
Date: Monday, 17 September 2007, at 7:46 am
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It’s time once again to catch up on some recent 101 in 1001 items, starting with Saturday night when I went to the Queen Mary in Long Beach with my parents. They were here overnight in order to leave on a Mexican cruise the next morning. We looked around the ship and eventually had some drinks at the Observation Bar.
Now, I know my list said that I would “take a date to dinner at a restaurant on the Queen Mary” and now I’m counting it done by “tak[ing] my parents to drinks on the Queen Mary” instead, but, really, the place just wasn’t worth going back on a future occasion. Don’t get me wrong; it was a fascinating location that I would very much love to film at someday, but it just wasn’t as romantic as I’d thought. Going out on an active cruise ship would be a lot more fun.
I also did item #71 way, way back on 15 July 2007 when I went on an L.A. Conservancy tour. This one was hosted by Harry Medved and it showed off parts of Los Angeles City Hall as they appeared in various movies. My own LMGA helped to put on the function and I answered a few questions about some recent downtown filming.
Over the last week or so, I finished item #48 in that I organized most of the many boxes of family history. I put the old books on shelves, and some of the knick-knack items in display cabinets. All that’s left now is to organize the hundreds of papers and photographs, but that belongs in item #26 wherein they’ll all need to be filed in a new filing system. I’m already on my way towards starting that too.