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Date: March 17, 2003 at 08:27:04
From: Keith Norrington, [66.83.131.6.nw.nuvox.net]
Subject: Re: "The Child of an Eagle" - More Eagle Packet Co. Info. |
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Judy: Thanks for mentioning "Child of An Eagle" which I had completely forgotten about! It's a great little book with many fine photos. Capt. Roy Barkhau's "History of the Eagle Packet Company" was published in 1951 and is long out of print. It, too, contains wonderful information and pictures. The opening of the book contains a terrific description of the interior of the Eagle Boat Store in which you feel that "you are there" with all the sights and smells of a chandlery. Just a block north of the Eads Bridge, the building later became a bar called "The Old St. Louis Levee House" featuring ragtime music, etc. It was operated by the late Frank Pierson, who also owned the GOLDENROD SHOWBOAT and Str. BECKY THATCHER. Most of the Eagle Packet Company/Boat Store artifacts that were in the museum Ruth Ferris had aboard the BECKY were found in the three story building that had been more or less abandoned when the Eagle Boat Store was moved aboard the old CHAS. H. WEST. The building burned in the early 1970's and is now gone.
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