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Growler · 03-08-11, 12:33 PM

Midway is San Diego is cool; not that far up the road, in Long Beach, rests the Queen Mary (now a hotel) and an ex-Soviet Foxtrot boat (I think it's a Fox, but I can't be sure.)

Midway was cool; was there oh, maybe two, three weeks ago. Got a chance to stomp around and speak with a few of their docents - a good bunch of guys, it seemed to me, more than willing to engage a visitor in real shop talk if the visitor could hang with it, and simplify things for the kids that were there, too. I met a guy named Jack (iirc) down in one of the Midway's engineering spaces, and if my wife hadn't pulled me out of there, I'd still be talking with him.

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Growler A long way from the sea Join Date: May 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 1,913 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Midway is San Diego is cool; not that far up the road, in Long Beach, rests the Queen Mary (now a hotel) and an ex-Soviet Foxtrot boat (I think it's a Fox, but I can't be sure.) Midway was cool; was there oh, maybe two, three weeks ago. Got a chance to stomp around and speak with a few of their docents - a good bunch of guys, it seemed to me, more than willing to engage a visitor in real shop talk if the visitor could hang with it, and simplify things for the kids that were there, too. I met a guy named Jack (iirc) down in one of the Midway's engineering spaces, and if my wife hadn't pulled me out of there, I'd still be talking with him. __________________ At Fiddler’s Green, where seamen true When here they’ve done their duty The bowl of grog shall still renew And pledge to love and beauty.