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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Vintage photos of:
Detroit, Michigan, circa 1912. "Daily river excursion steamers. Sidewheelers Tashmoo, Owana and City of Detroit III at White Star Line dock." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
My Grandpa painted ships in Detroit, I have a beautiful oil painting of the Tashmoo hanging on my wall that he did a few years before he died.
Couldn't get the money to take the cruise.
Is the name on the crating on the machine goods "Studebaker Corporation"?
[It is. - Dave]
is the dutiful U-boat spotter.
This was the nickname given the Tashmoo. She had over 600 windows. She was a day steamer that sailed from Detroit every morning in the summer with a stop at Tashmoo Park to disembark picnickers. She continued to Port Huron with a short stop, crossed over to Sarnia headed back to Harsons Island to pick up the people after a outing at the park, returning to Detroit in the evening.
Built in 1901, she sank at Amherstburg, Ontario, in 1936 and was cut up for scrap.
From the number of empties on the lower left, it looks as if these were not dry cruises.
Looks like someone remembered to put the glass recycling out! Hope that isn't all beer !
Those have to be the flimsiest shipping crates I've ever seen.
My gosh, if it isn't Paul Teutul Sr., of Orange County Choppers!
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