ACL 3rd new riverboat

New boat

This begs the question why pay to cruise. Why not get dvd's and sit in your easy chair. This is pulled from the article above.
"American Cruise Lines’ third new riverboat will feature a similar capacity to that of the Queen of the Mississippi and will also boast the most spacious staterooms in the industry, entirely private balconies – all with sliding glass doors, a center atrium with a grand staircase, various lounges and numerous amenities including:

▪ Fully-functioning authentic paddlewheel
▪ 300+ square foot staterooms
▪ Private balconies with sliding glass doors
▪ Various unique lounges, libraries, and cafés
▪ Fine hotel-style bathrooms
▪ Room Service
▪ Wi-Fi in all staterooms
▪ Satellite TV and DVD player in all staterooms
▪ Single sitting, open seating dining
▪ Complimentary cocktail hour"

How about, AMERICA'S QUEEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. You know the sign painters would LOVE that! 😉

It's about time someone put one of the late Ann Zeigers' favourite unused names on a boat. "SPIRIT CITY of BELLE QUEEN".

True! Or the signpainter's dream "ACE"

Then somebody would think it's a casino. Let's not forget that after the name there needs to be Home in lettering that can be seen from the shore.

Well, you could click on "Home" and find out what I really meant. Which is americancruiselines with www in front and .com on the end. I did not mean that the boat should be named "Home". But since it has all the comforts of "home", there might be some rich octogenarians that will live there. I am giving that sort of thing a great deal of thought, as well, if my long term health care would pay for it. Would certainly be better than some old folks home, and yes, I know that's what somebody called the DQ. Excuse me. Not PC to call them that. Assisted Living. There.

ed frazier;29153 wrote: This begs the question why pay to cruise. Why not get dvd's and sit in your easy chair. This is pulled from the article above.
"American Cruise Lines’ third new riverboat will feature a similar capacity to that of the Queen of the Mississippi and will also boast the most spacious staterooms in the industry, entirely private balconies – all with sliding glass doors, a center atrium with a grand staircase, various lounges and numerous amenities including:

▪ Fully-functioning authentic paddlewheel
▪ 300+ square foot staterooms
▪ Private balconies with sliding glass doors
▪ Various unique lounges, libraries, and cafés
▪ Fine hotel-style bathrooms
▪ Room Service
▪ Wi-Fi in all staterooms
▪ Satellite TV and DVD player in all staterooms
▪ Single sitting, open seating dining
▪ Complimentary cocktail hour"

American Queen had a flat screen TV did you know that

"'Fine Hotel-style bathrooms" Gee, what's the fun in that? The trick (for us tall guys) on the DQ was washing our hair (what's left of it) without bashing our head into the shower head!
Nah, I don't need wi-fi, balconies, room service, etc. etc. BUT I do really need STEAM!
Of course, if the city administrator has his way, I won't be gong anywhere pretty soon except job hunting. Fingers crossed (NO JOKE, sorry folks).
S'
David D.

I don't think this is a Mississippi riverboat but i cant wait to see what this new riverboat will look like.

Bob Reynolds;29156 wrote: True! Or the signpainter's dream "ACE"

I thought that it was J.S.!

Frank, speaking as one who has painted a sign or two in my career, The "J" and the "S" are not the easiest letters to paint. Capt. Doc Hawley always said that "ACE" would be the easiest...all straight lines, if you make the "C" square. Almost anyone can do it!

Year ago Alan Bates was going to build a sidewheel house boat.....he got as far as the pilothouse and part of the hull. It was a wooden hull. Alan got the wood from an old bourbon storage tank which one ot the distilleries was replacing. On a hot humid summer day you could smell that hull from two blocks away. But anyway, he was going to name the boat VIXEN.....all straight lines.

Bob Reynolds;29174 wrote: Frank, speaking as one who has painted a sign or two in my career, The "J" and the "S" are not the easiest letters to paint. Capt. Doc Hawley always said that "ACE" would be the easiest...all straight lines, if you make the "C" square. Almost anyone can do it!

LOL! You got me, Bob. An ACE trumps a J.S., so I guess that I better fold.

OK, heres my contribution: CO - pronounced sue. There really was a boat by that name. It was a amall private sternwheeler used, I think for hunting expeditions. There are photos and an article about her in one of the old S & D Reflectors.

*RE: Longworth family's private steamboat the 'CO'*

Hi, John & steamboating colleagues:
What an irony in reading your posting mentioning the private steamboat CO. Yes, CO and not C.O. as has appeared. The very wealthy Longworth family of Cincinnati (development of Catawba wine, financier, real estate) had the CO build in Cincinnati, 1885, by the Mack yard. She was some 81.6 X 17.7 X 2.7 ft. fully equipped with cook house, sleeping quarters, pilot/captain, chef for 'gentlemen hunting trips' on Ohio tributaries and the Mississippi. Fred notes the CO was later sold to Capt. A.B. French to tow his showboat and the first tow he owned.

By chance last week I was called by COWANS ANTIQUES/AUCTION of Cincinnati regarding history and identification of a fine presentation gun given by the Longworth family to Capt. Wes Doss. Of the three men in the Longworth dynasty here, the youngest 'Nick' (born 1869) married Alice Roosevelt, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. Nick serverd as Speaker of the House, U.S. Congress and died in 1931 being some years senior to Alice. Alice lived a long, active life living in a fine home off Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. which I saw many times.

The CO was featured by Fred Way in the March, 1970 issue of the S&D REFLECTOR titled 'From the family album' Pgs. 5,6,7 with fine Black/White photos of the hunting expedition with all the fine clothes, guns and trimmings. Capt. Wes Doss was part of the gang being, from appearances, close to and highly regarded by the Longworth family. Bill Judd knows of another hunting expedition the Longworth men took ending in near dangerous--but now amusing--circumstances. Nicholas Longworth the II, 'Nick's' father, was a member of the Literary Club of Cincinnati here. I have a number of his letters, documents on file in the library archives. Well, what do I know?

R. Dale Flick
Coal Haven Landing, Ohio River, Cincinnati.