I had toured the “Spruce Goose” in LA 30+ years ago. Recently I toured it in McMinnville, OR and there were glass partitions where I hadn’t seen them before. The docent told me it was only open for a year in LA when there was so much vandalism they had to wall it off.
I too toured the Spruce Goose back then—it was in Long Beach, not L.A., the only place it ever flew. I may (not likely) may have actually seen it fly because where I lived looked out over Long Beach Harbor, but I was only 1 at the time so I can’t say for sure that I did. Howard Hughes kept it in a closed hanger after its one flight. After he died, the lease ran out on the hanger and the Goose saw the light of day again. It’s a shame that idiots would deface such a thing.