18 June 2014

Saved


The Associated Press has a squib about a piece of history, saved:
A group trying to save a historic cruise ship moored in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has received $120,000 to preserve its last massive propeller.
The SS United States Conservancy announced the gift yesterday from cruise-industry executive Jim Pollin. The group had planned to sell the sixty-thousand-pound propeller for scrap if it couldn't find a buyer. Four other propellers from the ship are displayed in museums in New York and Virginia.
The organization hopes to repurpose the SS United States as a museum and mixed-use destination, but says time is running out.
Rico says they need to follow the Long Beach, California model and turn it into a hotel, but he's said that already...

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