After being rejected by San Francisco, languishing for years in the mothball fleet at Benicia and fought over by competing groups who tried and failed to land it as a tourist attraction, the USS Iowa officially opened as a floating museum today . . . at the Port of Los Angeles. NPR takes note.
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After being rejected by San Francisco, languishing for years in the mothball fleet at Benicia and fought over by competing groups who tried and failed to land it as a tourist attraction, the USS Iowa officially opened as a floating museum today . . . at the Port of Los Angeles. NPR takes note.
USS Iowa, now ‘open’ in Los Angeles, gets the NPR treatment
Saturday, July 7, 2012
After being rejected by San Francisco, languishing for years in the mothball fleet at Benicia and fought over by competing groups who tried and failed to land it as a tourist attraction, the USS Iowa officially opened as a floating museum today . . . at the Port of Los Angeles. NPR takes note.
