Not just the Queen Mary, but the Spruce Goose as well. From Wikipedia:
"Jack Wrather, a local millionaire, had fallen in love with the ship because he and his wife,
Bonita Granville, had fond memories of sailing on it numerous times. Wrather signed a 66-year lease with the city of Long Beach to operate the entire property. He oversaw the display of the
Spruce Goose, on long-term loan. The immense plane, which had been sitting in a
hangar in Long Beach for decades unseen by the public, was installed in a huge
geodesic dome adjacent to the liner in 1983, attracting increased attendance.
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His Wrather Port Properties operated the entire attraction after his death in 1984 until 1988, when his holdings were bought by the
Walt Disney Company. Wrather had built the
Disneyland Hotel in 1955, when
Walt Disney had insufficient funds to construct the resort himself. Disney had been trying to buy the hotel for 30 years. When they finally succeeded, they also acquired the
Queen Mary. This was never marketed as a Disney property.
First Class accommodation on
Queen Mary, converted into a present-day hotel room with modern curtains, bedding, fixtures and amenities surrounded by original wood paneling and portholes
Through the late 1980s and early 1990s the
Queen Mary struggled financially. Disney pinned their hopes for turning the attraction around on
Port Disney,
[42] a huge planned resort on the adjacent docks. It was to include a theme park known as
DisneySea, themed around the world's oceans. The plans eventually fell through; in 1992 Disney gave up the lease on the ship to focus on building what would become
Disney California Adventure Park. The DisneySea concept was recycled a decade later in Japan as
Tokyo DisneySea, with a recreated ocean liner resembling
Queen Mary named the
SS Columbia as the centerpiece of the American Waterfront area."
