Steamboat Passes and Tickets

More Streckfus passes/tickets

1)Side one of a ticket for an excursion sponsored by St. Mark's Church on the SAINT PAUL. This was very common for a group to sponsor a trip, either chartering the whole boat or selling tickets for a public ride. The group would get a cut of the ticket fare. This practice continued on through the AVALON days.
2) Side two of the SAINT PAUL ticket.
3) A special rate or discount coupon, ha, on the CAPITOL.

Even more Streckfus...

1) A pass for the WASHINGTON, the Streckfus steamboat which worked the Ohio River. This is signed by D.W. Wisherd, the long time traffic manager.
2) A pass for the PRESIDENT, signed by Verne Streckfus, the youngest son of Commodore John. He and brother Roy alternated on the CAPITOL and the St. Louis boats, and Verne became the PRESIDENT's Captain during its New Orleans existence.
3)Group tickets on the PRESIDENT and ADMIRAL from the 1970s.

Diamond Jo Line deck passage

1) The Diamond Jo Line preceded Streckfus on the Upper Miss. Streckfus bought the 4 Diamond Jo boats, their wharfboats and other facilities in 1911. The shrewd observer might notice this pass is on top of my model towboat/barge display...

New Orleans ferry tickets

Sorry for the flash...
1)for ferry between New Orleans and Algiers, now the Canal St. Ferry
2)for the ferry between New Orleans and Harvey, later known as the Jackson Avenue Ferry, which is no longer.

BETSY ANN, Greene Line

1) a pass for the BETSY ANN on the 1930 steamboat race, signed by her owner Capt. Frederick Way Jr.
2) A Greene Lines pass for the 194__ season, unsigned but the VP was Capt. Chris Greene, I believe.

The AVALON's 'hook'

Ah here was the lifeblood of the tramp excursion boat AVALON: a pass in return for advertising space. As Doc tells it, the AVALON's advance agent (Betty Blake being one) would precede the boat into the towns, go to various businesses like beauty/barber shops where word got around and ask the owner if they could display a poster of the upcoming AVALON's trips in the shop window. In return, the owner would be given several 'press' or advertising passes to hand out and use as they pleased. The free admission was money in the bank as it led to the onboard purchases of food, drink, and souvenirs. Sometimes I think today's boats 'miss the boat' with high fares that often don't allow people to spend a lot once they are onboard....

And finally....

Here's a pretty rare one, issued in '01 - that would be 2001... I've never had to use it as long as I arrive with chocolate chip cookies as my 'gangplank boarding pass'.
So this is pretty much the passes and some tickets I have in my collection. I also have many advertising cards in this particular notebook of memorabilia, which is one thing that I have kept pretty well organized over the years, unlike the rest of my 'museum'.

Passes

Thank you for sharing , enjoyed seeing them !

*Judy's 'Passes/Tickets Collection*
Morning, Steaamboating colleagues,
WOW! Judy, thanks for posting/sharing your fine collection of steamboat 'Passes/Tickets' etc. Photos came through fine. I got a real kick seeing the DIAMOND JO LIKE TICKET for "Deck passage" and note "KEEP DOWN STAIRS." The BETSY ANN 'Pass' also jumped out seeing Capt. Fred Way's distinct signature, which didn't change much all of his life. Fred Way fought the good fight running his BETSY ANN in the final days of old packet boating. The approach to drop or greatly limit freight stops in lieu of the seasonal passenger trade for advertised 'trips or cruises' just didn't pay off as even down to the early 1930s freight was what paid the big bills in operaton.

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

Hi Judy: Thanks for your posting on passes. I have quite a few but they have taken a back burner to my photo collection. You are the best in keeping this site alive. Where did every body go?

*Judy's photos/Everybody go?*
Bill, I agree with you RE: Judy's continual support of Steamboats.org with photos etc. Her 'Live from the levee' all we hear now of news from/about the NATCHEZ. We hear a little now from our friend in Louisville RE: the BELLE OF LOUISVILLE reports on hull work, engines--but recently due to a .org glitch, it comes up blank. Apparently after the new regimes began operating the BELLE the old crowd there also dwindled off. I gather many migrated to social media such as FACEBOOK etc. Also news/reports on the long languishing DELTA QUEEN being missed. Sorry, I have neither a FACEBOOK account nor do I visit there--unless I receive notice from a few to "...better take a look at this posting." Times have changed.

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

yes, sadly Facebook

I'm afraid most have gone to Facebook, but I don't understand why they can't be on both. I am finally on Facebook under my real name but post very little other than pictures. It is much better for pix, as you can put an unlimited number on in an album, vs. the limit of 3 per posting here. And when I post from my iPadmini, I can only post 1 pix at a time on .org. But I much prefer the info on .org to what shows up on Facebook. People see the first posting and don't read the responses. They just plop their response on, which usually has already been posted by someone else. I have found some interesting pages, such as: Mississippi River Photos, Save the DQ (nothing happening there now), MQ, AQ pages, and several reminiscing about the olden days in the Quad Cities. But as for steamboat info and knowledge, it doesn't compare to what we used to have on here regularly, and occasionally still have. I guess we old folks will just have to keep .org going, no matter how slow it seems to be at times.

I find myself "lurking" more on dot.org than posting. I have certainly enjoyed this thread, even though I can hardly see the pictures posted.

Facebook is where folks have gone, and here's why: for pictures, it is easier and faster. I cannot see anything photo-wise on steamboats.org except a thumbnail. When I click on a pic to enlarge it, it freezes up and I never get to see the picture.

Judy, you are 100% correct when you say that the info. and knowledge pales in comparison to what we have here. I'm still here, just doing more looking than posting right now.

Audience and responses on .org

While I never post with the purpose of getting responses of gushing praise, it does get deflating to post and get NO responses - my Live from the Levee comments are a great example. I used to love posting as soon as I got back to my hotel room. Now, its a chore. I feel like, why bother? Who cares? I can see the number of views of a posting so at least I know somebody has read them, but that isn't the same as seeing the thread continue by someone other than me. And by that I don't mean a bunch of thank yous - we used to generate questions or comments about a posting, wanting further info or providing further info. Other than Dale, that is mostly missing now and it doesn't encourage me to post much. And as I said, for some reason I can only post 1 pix a posting from my iPad, and that is what I'm using now for my pix, so that is a pain. Right now I'm typing on my laptop and I don't have the recent pix on here. If I want to post a pix I have to go to the iPad and tap individual letters with my pix...And I'm not criticizing Franz or this site, lord knows he doesn't have the wherewithal that Facebook has to provide more convenient ways to post, etc. I'm just explaining my perspective on posting in general. And totally off the subject, I've gotten so lazy I sometimes go a couple weeks without going upstairs through the cold uninsulated attic to my steamboat collection to find stuff to post. So for me its a combination of inner and outer lack of inspiration.....

Dial-up and Facebook are not compatible, so I have to count on what I find here to keep me abreast of what's going on with the boats and the rivers. It's a great disappointment to me that the DQSC does not have an active website, where I probably could go, and instead relies on their Facebook page for announcements, etc. And as was pointed out, the format of posting at Facebook does not easily allow one to follow a conversation. And, not to be a snob, but I found the postings here to be a bit more sophisticated and accurate than that on Facebook pages.
Oh, and before I forget, thanks for posting the pass photos; you have a very impressive collection and I enjoyed your sharing them.

Lurker

I have always been a happy lurker, never like to write anything online. Yes, there is less to read here these days but I love to read what is here, as I always have. I don't like Facebook and will never write anything there. So what little I have ever posted here through the years is all I have ever written online.

So big thanks to Franz, and ongoing thanks to those who do post here. Since I do know most of you, reading what you write is like hearing from a friend. Surely there must be other lurkers out there who still enjoy reading what is posted here.

Pat

*'Lurkers/Posters/Pictures'*
Morning, Steamboating colleagues,
Judy, rest assured your 'Live from the levee' postings with photos etc. are appreciated. I note also some postings being greeted with a silent -0- leaving one to wonder who if anybody reads. I find there are more 'Lurkers' than imagined when I have questions, comments--criticisms--come to me via 'Private Message.' Some seem shy to post and that's fine. I receive frequent 'Private Messages' from researchers, writers seeing information, opinions etc. Most fine people but some looking for us to do their basic research. We certainly did post/share tons of photos, steamboat history peviously. Now and then a comment/question elicits another posting of the same with nobody apparently concerned. There are many new people coming on not knowing much of this history or stories with the older crowd moving on. Other professional studies of web sites, quarterly journals, publications etc. reveal that many now visiting web sites are NOT interested all that much in the old steamboats with history and lore we know. Younger, new 'lurkers, visitors' are drawn more to the photos, history of the present boats: AMERICAN QUEEN, NATCHEZ, BELLE OF LOUISVILLE, languishing DELTA QUEEN--with that slacking off. These findings by those who study web sites, publications and not mine. There are many fine scholars, writers who do 'lurk' with comments along with communications behind the screen of Steamboats.org. Jerry Canavit is one such guy along with others.

I'm guilty of being too lazy to study/master direct posting of photos and documents to .org. I did have some help but I had no luck with my attempts.

I sensed when the link to FACEBOOK appeared here that it would draw many away. Gotta' be careful with postings on FACEBOOK or any other social media. Whatever is floating out there in cyberspace is forever and never goes away according to legal minds. The DELTA QUEEN Initiative thread here slowed to a complete stop of late. Again, the postings on that far less than 'Steamboat History,' 'Cruises and River News.' If people like to chat and 'twitter on TWITTER' then that's fine.

Judy, I well remember at Marietta when you set up your lap computer with a demonstration on then to me new Steamboats.org. Up to then I had no idea yet alone heard about it. I was dumb as mud then about how to get on, how to post etc. Cheers!

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

Bill Judd;35240 wrote: Hi Judy: Thanks for your posting on passes. I have quite a few but they have taken a back burner to my photo collection. You are the best in keeping this site alive. Where did every body go?

I'm here, Cap! it's just that it's 75 cents a minute here on the QM2 to peruse these messages!

Ms P

I too enjoyed your post of boarding passes and tickets.

Fran Nash