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Long Ride Ahead? Bus Games That Keep Everyone Entertained
“Clumsy” and “naked” tumbled out of Roger Price’s mouth before his friend Leonard Stern could finish asking for an adjective. Stern, a television writer, needed a word for the nose of Ralph Kramden’s new boss in a script for The Honeymooners. Price’s answer made no sense in context, and...Skip the Rookie Mistakes: Tips for Disneyland Anaheim
On July 17, 1955, Disney expected about 15,000 invited guests, yet 28,154 people pushed through the gates, many holding counterfeit tickets. The temperature hit 100 degrees. Fresh asphalt on Main Street trapped high heels. A plumbers’ strike also left the park with too few working drinking fountains. The troubled...Family Activities in Long Beach: Indoor & Outdoor Ideas
A family day in Long Beach gets more interesting when you don’t have to force everyone into the same activity. Some of the city’s strongest options solve that problem surprisingly well. You can stand inches from sharks, explore an ocean liner, watch for whales offshore, take in Latin American...Santa Ana, CA Attractions: What’s Actually Worth Seeing?
Santa Ana can be easy to misread. Look at a general Orange County itinerary, and the city sometimes appears as a handful of museums between better-known destinations elsewhere in the county. Spend a day here, though, and a much more specific picture emerges. Santa Ana’s strongest attractions cover remarkably...Things to Do in Anaheim This September (It’s a Long List)
September is the month Anaheim forgets what season it is, and somehow it all holds together. The calendar fills faster than it looks from the outside, and the weekends when events overlap are the ones nobody plans around. Here is what the month looks like on the ground. The...Everything Worth Doing in Beverly Hills, in One Day
Most people arrive for Rodeo Drive and leave having seen only that. Beverly Hills fits far more into a single day: a Jazz Age estate with a complicated family history, a legendary hotel bar, a nearly two-mile park, three blocks of the world’s most recognizable luxury shopping, and a...