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SS Admiral was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River from the Port of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1940 to 1978.The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino, [1] also known as Admiral Casino, [2] in the 1990s.
Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.
Casino Boat on the Mississippi River, Natchez, Mississippi Sam's Town riverboat casino on the Red River, Shreveport, Louisiana. A riverboat casino is a type of casino on a riverboat found in several states in the United States with frontage on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, or along the Gulf Coast.
Though the J.S. spent much of its time in St. Louis and St. Paul, it tramped on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. [10] While cruising the Mississippi near LaCrosse, WI on the night of June 25, 1910, Streckfus lost his custom-built steamer, the J.S., to a fire allegedly ignited by a drunken and disorderly passenger. [11]
DraftKings at Casino Queen is a casino located near the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by The Queen Casino & Entertainment, an affiliate of Standard General. It is still nominally a riverboat casino, but moved onto land in 2007. The ...
Built in Cincinnati, Ohio, as were all of her successors owned by Capt. Leathers, she was a fast two-boiler boat, 175 feet (53 m) long, with red smokestacks, that sailed between New Orleans and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Leathers sold this boat in 1848. She was abandoned in 1852. [9] [10]
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
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