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30 years later, Graceland still reels ’em in

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – When Graceland opened to the public 30 years ago this month, nobody knew if it would be a success. Nearly 18 million visitors later, the house where Elvis Presley once lived is a money-making business that’s helped transform the city of Memphis into a top destination for music lovers. But Presley’s ex-wife says it’s the spirit of Elvis, and not just music history, that keeps the crowds coming to Graceland.
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Auto-biography

TACOMA – The most important car in Tacoma’s spanking new LeMay-America’s Car Museum isn’t the 1930 Duesenberg Model J or the ice-blue 1951 Studebaker that welcomes visitors through the lobby like a gleaming, four-wheeled family pet. It’s the one that draws you to it for reasons you don’t quite understand at first. A latent childhood memory. A loved one. A time. One glance and the back of your life opens up like a garage door. And you’re gone.
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Managing your frequent-flier miles

After nearly 30 years of observing airline loyalty programs, Randy Petersen has reached a conclusion: You probably aren’t managing your frequent-flier miles very well. “Most people don’t understand the personal finance of frequent-flier miles,” said Petersen, publisher of Inside Flyer magazine. “They’ll use them on a $200 ticket. Some discipline is required.”
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Southern California’s Coronado named nation’s best beach

CORONADO, Calif. — Like a Hollywood star, Coronado’s 1.5 mile-long beach literally sparkles, thanks to the mineral mica glinting in its sand. That’s one of the reasons why Coronado — flanked by the iconic hotel featured in Marilyn Monroe’s 1958 film “Some Like It Hot” — has been named the No. 1 beach in the United States in the 2012 survey by “Dr. Beach” professor Stephen P. Leatherman of Florida International University.
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A museum with something for everyone in Victoria, B.C.

Royal BC Museum This don’t-miss museum, the city’s biggest, has a world-class First Nations gallery (with ceremonial masks, totem poles and more artifacts of British Columbia’s native groups); natural history galleries with lush sea and forest dioramas; and a child-pleasing reconstruction of a 19th century town’s main street, complete with life-size shops, antique-filled hotel rooms, a train station and more.
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Golden Gate enjoys diamond anniversary with help of engineers

SAN FRANCISCO – The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world’s longest suspension span and had been built across a strait that critics said was too treacherous to be bridged. But as the iconic span marks its 75th anniversary this weekend, the generations of engineers who have overseen it all these years say keeping it up and open has been something of a marvel unto itself.
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‘Near nature’ drawing tourists

This story was edited on Friday, May 25 to add the amount paid for the study.

A detailed study of Spokane’s tourism industry has found that the area’s “near nature, near perfect” calling card is working. But the community hasn’t done as much as it can, said Judy Randall, president of Randall Travel Marketing. Randall’s firm, based in North Carolina, spent the past 12 months looking at travel data and interviewing area groups and visitors.

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Old World charm, vibrant culture converge in eclectic Maine

PORTLAND, Maine – I was in Portland all of 10 minutes when its soul rolled by on two wheels: a gentleman pedaling through downtown on a penny-farthing – one of those bicycles with a huge front wheel. The bike made the man look as if he had just ridden off the back of a deck of playing cards. Or straight out of the 1870s. He seemed barely to notice he was more than a century out of his time.
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