Monday, August 13, 2012

Monday Mural



Mississippi Queen
A true stern paddlewheeler
Towed and sold for scrap!

To see more Monday Murals, go here.
To see an actual photo of the Mississippi Queen as well as her history, click here.




17 comments:

  1. A beautiful mural!

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  2. What a sad end for what should have been the continuation of a legacy of Mississippi River riverboats.

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  3. cette peinture murale est magnifique

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  4. She must have been quite a sight when she paddled up and down Big Muddy. A vision from the past. Only bigger. Nice that she's commemorated in a mural. Makes me think of Showboat. Oops, now I'm humming "Ol' Man River." Thanks for contributing to Monday Mural.

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  5. How sad that the Mississippi Queen ended up in the scrapyard! I can picture evening dinner cruises with a jazz/blues band playing during the warm summer months...

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  6. What a fun mural! :)

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  7. Great mural of a bygone era.

    scrap, eh....what were they thinking!

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  8. Well, that's sad. Is this the one we used to see plying the St. Croix? Such a beautiful mural!

    And yes, I'm keeping up with a few blogs such as Oala and Florida Fotos and Images...don't know about the rest yet. It's too much and I want to do other things! :-)

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  9. I followed your link to her history. A Queen that it's many riders will remember.

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  10. Nice looking mural.

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  11. A lovely mural, but so sad that the Queen is being scrapped. We are so careless of our history.

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  12. Brings back memories. We cruised the Miss.(at a meeting) out of St Louis 35 yrs ago on the art deco SS Admiral. I love river cruising....Also did a Rhine Cruise from Switzerland to The Netherlands this Spring. I am sure I would have loved the old Queen...

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  13. Very nice!
    Hope you have a great week!

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  14. A really funny one!

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  15. Mississippi boats are so cool! Great mural, Kate.

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  16. Very colorful. I'd love to ride one on the River Mississippi.

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