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05/01/2009 2:10 pm
The attached photo, courtesy of Dan Owen, was taken on December 22nd at Alton, Illinois. A picture is worth MANY words! If anybody wanted to make a movie about the explosion of the SULTANA, here would be an excellent "set" for it!
05/01/2009 5:06 pm
Is this an end of the line dismantling? Where is this taking place?
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05/01/2009 6:02 pm
Lex: The PRESIDENT is being dismantled at Alton, Il, and the pieces trucked to St. Elmo, IL, near Effingham, to be re-assembled to become a non-floating tourist attraction. If you check back in the archives of this message board, there are numerous threads about the unusual project.
05/01/2009 11:23 pm
Reassembling the PREZ
I presume all of the pieces and sections have been numbered for the rebuilding project?
06/01/2009 4:43 pm
I remember the previous threads, but I had assumed that the "parts" would be fewer and larger. So, I thought I had missed something. I'll have to look on a map to figure out where St. Elmo is. Is it on a river? Not that that matters. Just that it gets put together again.
06/01/2009 4:53 pm
I googled it so now I know. I wonder if they would miss the "P" . Probably... but not for a while. That's a mighty big puzzle. Pieces do come up missing in big puzzles.
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06/01/2009 5:46 pm
Lex: Remember when you and I "rummaged" in a junk pile on the St. Louis levee to retrieve a few souvenirs from the PRESIDENT shortly after she had returned to New Orleans and the ADMIRAL had come back to her usual habitat? I still have the small block from the PRESIDENT. And SOMEWHERE there is a slide I took of you "up to your elbows" in junk. We surely had fun that day, carting a few "finds" back to the DQ. Them wuz the days!
By the way - a group of your steamboat drawings (framed) is currently being offered on Ebay!