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Long Beach fired the lifeguard after he was accused of chasing down a boy and putting sand down his pants, but a city commission overturned that decision. ....
- ADVERTISEMENT - The decision to let that opportunity float away and disappear over the horizon resulted in the city dumping millions of dollars into the ship over the years, with hundreds of millions of dollars still needed to make the ship a little something less than a death trap. And lord knows what the figure will be in order to turn the ship and its adjacent 45 acres into the tourist draw that its operators and the city have fantasized about for the more than half-century the Queen Mary has been in Long Beach. In the spring of 1997, the ship’s operator, Joseph Prevratil, floated the idea of towing the ship off to Tokyo Bay, where a group of Japanese investors would borrow it for three to five years and operate it as a casino-hotel. ....