1976-77 Mississippi Queen crew photos!!!

You're right.....but wasn't she dating the band member who played the guitar named Dave Jacobs? .....and what was the name of her daughter that she brought on board to work in housekeeping with her?

She was married to dave. Cant remember about her daughter.

Thanks Fred I couldnt remember Julies name. And of course if your from this era you should remember Rusty and his GF and I cant remember her name but we called her High Pockets. Rusty had long Red hair and was a Jr. Engineer and was killed by a drunk driver on his way to the NOLA airport to pick her up. She was a maid from Ky. And how about Michelle the 300 lb.+ maid. She went towboatin for Exxon as a tankerman.

That's Syl LaFata on clarinet, Bill "The Colonel" Coburn on trombone, Stan "Papa" McAuley on piano (and trombone in the middle pic) Stan's wife, Dottie ran the gift shop. Doesn't that look like Dan Forman in back of Dave Jacobs and his tuba?

In the photo on right, it's Fuzzy Ballard on clarinet and I can't think of the drummer's first name, but his last name is White. That's before Bill Hawkins (Greg's dad) came along.

Yeah Bob and Sharon should know most of them too.

Besides Alphonso,the super eggman, do you have any other photos of the kitchen crew. I was one of them back in 78-79...when Pam Yahn ruled the cold foods and David Breedon ruled the hot side...Chef Silver danced through the kitchen on occasion ...with the single mantra of "more salt". Also some of the waiters I recall in your crew pix were Bob Shearman (tall blond Maitre'D ) and Nick Maloney.

How coincidental........I was going through more photo albums the other day and came across over 100 more pics of the MQ crew! I did a google on Pam Yahn and ended up speaking to her last employer who will have Pam contact me early this week. Here's a few more pics of the staff from 1976-79. Let me know who you recognize.....

Here's another pic of Pam Yahn and kitchen crew staff.....

Dining Room staff from June, 1978. I am on the far right of every pic....
Just a 20 year old kid from Ohio, having the time of my life!

Remember all of those stops at the UNDER THE HILL bar on Silver St. in Natchez, Mississippi?

More crew photos at UNDER THE HILL.

Newspaper clipping............

More '78 MQ Crew

May add to your great collection of the MQ Crew of '78 with some pics of The Fish (Deborah Ann Fischbeck) who should be included with her kitchen, waiter, and housekeeping pals. Fish would have enjoyed these photographs.

1. Bela Berty and Fish on MQ swing
2. Fish on MQ Crew, 1978
3. Fish sweeping MQ Kitchen floor (Deck to you lubbers)

Three More Fish Pics

Three more shots. Too bad I edited out the others in most of these pictures as they would have been of interest to others on here.

1. Fish at Fort Hill, Vicksburg Battlefield, 1978
2. Fish on V'burg Monument
3. Fish and I on "days off" together.

The pic of Fish astride a monument in the Vicksburg Battlefield has been enlarged. See prior posting.

These pictures are fun. The picture next to Pam Yahn on deck is of Luke Mitchell (waiter ) and his girlfriend who I don't remember her name . I do recognize alot of the dining staff,George Reynolds,Frank (?),Tony Perrone, Kurt Lindquist and his brother Eric, Larry Brubaker,Kevin McCarthey.And Under the Hill was such a great place. I heard it was lost in a landslide years'ago. Natchez was such a magical place. I remember the crew swinging off ropes into the river on summer days!

Wow Tim I knew like 95% of those people. Kelly and Sally, Mike, and Luke and those guys, Bobby Shearman, his brother worked for me on the DQ too.

oh Hey sam great pics of the fish too. I can see and hear her as if it were yesterday.

There was indeed a landslide that damaged UTH and killed a bartender, but UTH was alive and going strong afterwards. Rest assured that the crew of the '90's carried on ( in every sense of the word) in the glorious tradition set by you plank holders. I had eight happy years aboard the MQ.

.....it was a dream come true this past weekend when I left sunny Ft. Lauderdale and flew to Cincinnati to re-unite with my steamboat family after almost 32 years! We were all inseparable the entire time spending 3 days of laughter and memories....... Everyone looked and sounded the same, except me: I lost all of my hair through the years! To add to all of the excitement at dinner both nights, we had 4 surprise phone calls from other crew members from that first year that couldn't make the re-union, but wanted to keep in touch: Grover Moberley (Florida), Marilyn Melton (N.Carolina), Pam Yahn (Massachusets) and Jim Sedgwick (Pennsylvania). Already planning ahead for another get-together later this year...........Enjoy the pics.

Karen Routenberg
Steve Hoffman
Steve Hoffman, Karen Routenberg, Missy Seltzer and Tim Miller

Karen Routenberg and her friend, Paul...Martha Razor, Tim Miller, Susan and Steve Hoffman
Karen Routenberg, Tim Miller and Martha Razor
Karen Routenberg, Martha Razor, Tim Miller and Steve Hoffman

also in attendance was Vince Seltzer ( not pictured )

Thank You!

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
You just made my day, I was a crew member from 78 to 80 (porter)and I remember many of these folks, I was so in love with Pam Yahn!
So happy to see all these photos, I'm going to look though my photos and see if I can find more