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  • USS Midway makes debut as public museum in San Diego

    06/06/2004 3:41:00 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 334+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/6/04 | Jessica Gresko - AP
    SAN DIEGO (AP) - The menu in one of the USS Midway's galleys still offers macaroni and cheese, biscuits and gravy and apple cobbler in bright orange letters. It's a menu left from the Desert Storm era, when the aircraft carrier was decommissioned. The ship debuts Monday as the San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum, the fifth such museum in the nation. The first major attraction to open in San Diego in decades, it's expected to draw about 400,000 visitors annually. "Many of the exhibits focus around the theme of Midway being a 'City at Sea,'" said museum spokesman Scott McGaugh....