Some MORE photos from my trip

Here's some scary photos! At Helena, I finally made a pilothouse tour--so here's me on the Lazy Bench, and the scary one, at the helm!!
And one with a question: Here's the roof of the sundeck, with spare wheel boards, but what's this Delta Queen sign up here?
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David D.

Well, here's the stairway to home from the front porch, and a photo of the forward lounge--without food!!! Don't know how I got this one! 🙂
And at the Helena landing, Linda waiting for me to catch up!
You should have heard the echo there from the calliope! I have a recording, but it doesn't come across as loud as it was in person. Quite a delay, Travis could play three or four notes, and they'd all come back to us.
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David D.

Here's Travis playing the Delta Queen Waltz; afterwards he discovered the echo, and then we had some more calliope fun!
Another wonderful river sunset, and a sunrise (I may have posted this one before, but ain't it a beautiful view?).
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David D.

This is a bit out of sequence, but here's some pics from the Capt's reception.
First is My folks with the Cap't, then their Hawaiian friends, Ralph & Artleta, and finally two of our table mates, Lewie & Lillian. Lewie works on an historic Railroad, so we had lots of notes to compare!
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David D.
PS that's all for tonite, more to come!!

Great photos, Dave! As to the DELTA QUEEN sign, it has been there since the mid-1970's at least. I'm THINKING (and maybe Shipyard Sam can confirm or deny this) that this was the old nameboard from the stern splashboard before they reapinted in about 1971 or 72 with the fancy name back there.

The reason for putting a nameboard up there was for identification purposes from overhead, especially up here on the UMR where she is seen from so many bridges and bluffs. If you're driving across a bridge in traffic or along one of our hilly highways, you can't stop to wait for the stern name to show up, and there are many people who don't know the name of this boat.

Hmm, probably true, though hard to believe for us steamboaters--Let's see, single stack, California style hull (well, now only the freeboard)--STILL RUNNING--what ELSE could it be?? 🙂 (this is an attempt at humor!) But that answer makes good sense, thanks!
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David D.
PS Another good reason to put her name back on the front of the pilot house!!

Great photos

I created a screen saver of sunsets/sunrises on the river. The pictures don't have people in them just scenery and boats. I hope you don't mind if I add your sunrise picture to my collection. I have not and will not sell the screen saver---it was too much of a learning curve for me. I did switch my screen saver to my west coast photos because of visiting my kids but I always like the sunsets and sunrises on the river.

Since my monitor is also my bedroom television, there is a constant screen saver on it.

Nice photos!

I'm baaack! Some more pics this time of folks on board.
I dunno who let this character aboard, you'd think they'd have standards. . .
Pat Traynor, "Diamond Dave" Dewey (Have cards will Travel), and Pat Carr
The Captain and Us; and finally, our table group, left to right
Lillian Vanderkuur (Young), Linda Dewey, Me, Glenn & Fran Hurst, Linda Beasley, Joy Graham, Lewie Young. A real mix of newbies & repeaters (Joy knew the Greenes). We all really enjoyed each other, and are staying in touch, so far!
Oh, about that Diamond Dave guy, he looks the part, but can't shuffle a deck! 🙂
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David.

Some of the Orleans Room Staff, by this time in the trip, they were getting along and allowing their personalities to come out. First trip of the season, probably is usually like this? Anyways, here are three pics, one after the other, so you can see how they all came over-what I missed was them giving everyone "rabbit ears" when Anthony took the pic of all of us at the table--RATS!
So, by memory, Left to right Darryl, Travis behind him, Anthony, Tashina AKA Penny (uh oh, memory fading, hope that's right) and Oops, we forgot (didn't actually serve our table). This is embarrasing, maybe one of you can help out! Lillian is in front, and Linda trying to stay out of this!
And a few more gather 'round, Bernard shows up (on Left), and behind Darryl another unknown face--who Bruno IDs as Ortis (Thanks!)!
Last shot, We think that's Tory hiding behind Bernard.
What a great bunch, they had a time figuring out how to work the room, but they were always helpful and good natured about stuff.
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David

One more posting before I go off to Church and a Historical Society meeting (we're going to see an operating Grist mill from the gold rush era).
Here's Tory helping us re-create the 1950s S. S. Delta Queen brochure picture of the Chimes Caller anouncing dinner. For those who haven't seen that brochure, the original wording is not um, "appropriate"--even for the times it was printed. But, since they're still using the same Degan dinner chimes as back then, we wanted an updated version.
And, the voice of the DQ, kinda hard to get a clear picture. I have a similar, but smaller version in my whistles--that someday are going to disturb this neighborhood too! (One New Years in the old neighborhood when I still had my steamboat boiler (Don't get excited, just one for a 16' launch), I set up some whistles in the yard and started to blow them at midnight. Then I heard (a few blocks away) some gunshots--not individual ones but rat-a-tat-tat ones. Some nut was firing an automatic in the air! 'Nuff celebratin' fer me--I dumped the steam and went indoors!
Ah, and the bow lines lookin' neat and tidy. Wish they'd turn that D around!
Later all!
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David

David, the waiter behind Darryl and to his left in your second and third photos, post #11 is Ortis...no matter where you are in the Orleans you can recognize Ortis's laugh, he's a peach...

Still haven't warmed to the new waitstaff uniforms...Bring back the DQSC maroon vests, white shirts and garters...

And Tashina(sp?) goes by the name Penny...

The old "Doc" Hawley painted nameboard that was back on the DELTA QUEEN's transom is up at Marietta in storage. The one forward of the calliope was put up there, with the rest of the circus junk, for the 1971 season.

Elaine,
I'm flattered! I have more sunsets/ sunrises, didn't want to bore everyone with all of them!
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David D.

I was standing there when what became that sign was installed to cover up the clutter of pipes, etc. so that the view from the pilothouse, aft, was somewhat less obtrusive. Imagine if you will a tall fence around a junkyard. It was Bill Muster, after seeing the "fence" installed, who was the one who had the DELTA QUEEN name painted upon it as the perfect place to do so. The name board was an after-thought.

Yeah, that nameboard is BIG and in two sections. Jeff Spear has tried to find a way to display it at The Ohio River Museum, but it just won't fit! Last I saw it the nameboard was stored in a Front Street warehouse in downtown Marietta.

Keith,

It would sure look good next to the fence by the DELTA QUEEN paddlewheel shaft at the Howard Museum (or beside the Carriage House near the shaft).

~Travis~

It surely would -- BUT -- the paint is deteriorating and the artifact really needs to be housed INdoors!

Close Call...

That BIG signboard was slated for the dump when we were cleaning house aboard the DELTA QUEEN. At Y/T's suggestion, the company presented Doc's sign to the OH Muse instead, the next time we made our annual pilgrimage to Marietta.

In years before, when the DQ wintered-over at the GLS wharfboat, Captain Hawley had his masterpiece of the sign-maker's art taken off the splashboard and brought inside the boat where he meticulously touched up the name board for another upcoming season perched above the paddlewheel. Bill Muster took a photograph of the sign and made it into colorful postcards reproductions that were sold in the gift shop. Always My favorite Muster pic.

David, even if it was a learning curve for me, the screen saver was a freebee or extra with one of the photo programs. It just required putting a series of about a dozen photos together in a folder and then having the computer select that as its screen saver.

The hard part is narrowing your choices but it a great reminder of whatever you want memories of flashing across your computer.

The harder part is that it can make you green with envy. But welcome to the steamboat addiction! Its a funny little bug that so many of us willingly catch.

Steamcerely,
Elaine

Elaine,
Even my work screensaver is filled with pics from our trip. May be why I'm so dissatisfied at being on dry land!
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David