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guest   [Sep 16, 2005 at 03:16 AM]
Wow! I am sitting here with my jaw on my lap,scrutinizing these photos. Thank you for sharing them (and your story) with the rest of us!
guest   [Sep 17, 2005 at 03:24 AM]
Thank you, Fred, for the pix and tour through the SOUTH. Sad, but glad you did it. The last time I was aboard her was at Mackinac Island in '59. My job was on the NORTH. But the crews from both ships put on a show in the Casino Room at the Grand Hotel. Songs and dances from some of the Broadway shows and musicals. What a summer that was. I spent the whole summer of '59 on the NORTH AMERICAN.
guest   [Sep 18, 2005 at 02:45 PM]
Who was the fellow dressed like European Royalty who use to greet it down on the dock in Houghton? Nice set of photos of the grand old lady who use to go past my house on the canal.
guest   [Sep 19, 2005 at 04:49 PM]
Walt , I seem to remember his name was Dominic the Cop. Well at least his nickname.
guest   [Sep 20, 2005 at 05:13 AM]
Thank you so much for sharing the photos. It was like a tour down memory lane, like the good old days!! I rode my bicycle real fast to the Jacobsville pier to greet the S. American on Tues. evenings as she rounded the end of the pier.
guest   [Sep 29, 2005 at 04:55 PM]
I think there's a similar boat at anchor in Saugatuck, MI. I was on board in a tour in the 1990's. They're trying to restore her to better days. To my knowledge it is still available for the public. Thanks for the photos. I remember seeing the South American long, long ago during one of my many trips to Gramma's house in Hancock, MI.
guest   [Oct 15, 2005 at 10:30 PM]
i remember the South Amerivan well. I remember it stopping in Houghton and the excitment aroud it's landing. Most of all I remember my senior trip. We cruised from round trip from Detroit to Mackniac Island in 1964. What a time we had. Even at that young age I had an appreciation for the boat and all the history that it represented. Thank you for the pictures. Gail
guest   [Oct 22, 2005 at 05:24 PM]
When I worked on the Greater Detroit of the old D&C line the SA used to dock near us from time to time. Later when we lived in Houghton we used to motorboat out to see her sail the Portage Lake. Sad to see her like this and sad that there no more passager ships on the Lakes. Jim
guest   [Jan 10, 2006 at 01:15 AM]
I enjoyed the pictures very much. A lot of old cruise ship of the Great lakes went the same way..so sad
guest   [Feb 09, 2006 at 09:35 PM]
Those are some great pictures of the Old Girl. Thank you for sharing them and posting them for all of us to see.
guest   [Feb 10, 2006 at 02:35 AM]
I sat here in awe looking at those pictures. You were so lucky to have been able to get on board and save some of her former beauty and share them with us. Thank you so much for the memories you awakened of a little girl watching that boat at the Straits every year when she went "up north" fo stay with her grandparents in Ironwood. Saw her many, many times.
guest   [Feb 12, 2006 at 05:58 PM]
I just wanted to say thank you for posting these pictures. My grandfather had a place in Algonac and I remember Sunday nights we would see her heading north up the river. I always loved to look/watch her going up river and loved to hear that great steam horn.
In Algonac, we would also go to a place to eat called "Henrys" that had a room just full of old pictures of these great old ships, and a lot of Gar Woods boats seeing he also had a place in Algonac, along with the orig Smith brothers of Chris Craft.
It is a shame that all that is lost forever....
guest   [Feb 12, 2006 at 10:32 PM]
I too remember the Sunday evenings that seeing this grand Lady. I purchased a great Jim Clary litho of the South American leaving the Mackinac Island for my parents years ago. It's really painful to see these grand ladies is such disrepair when as kids they had such elegance in my mind!
guest   [Mar 25, 2006 at 12:23 PM]
Fred - thanks for the pictures, but they are so sad. When I was a little girl I ran down the hill every Tues evening in the summer to see her go by Tech and hear her sound her greeting horn. And then in high school playing in Bob Gillis's band on the dock. What a shame.
guest   [May 24, 2006 at 02:12 AM]
I've never seen the North or South American but they hold a place in my heart because my great-grandfather built them. I appreciate the photos and the stories, but does anyone have pictures of what the inside looked like in their heyday?
Rob Davis
guest   [Jul 28, 2006 at 12:56 PM]
Hey Fred, Jim Wescoat told me when he was a kid, he and his buddies would go down to meet the cruise ships with pennies pounded into unrecognizable lumps and sell them as a piece of copper for a quarter. True? Who knows.
guest   [Aug 31, 2006 at 10:17 PM]
Thanks for sharing the pictures. I was Radio Officer aboard the South in 1958. It ws a very memorable experience.
guest   [Oct 16, 2006 at 06:39 PM]
Thanks, as well. My uncle worked on the SS South American and her sister, the SS North American, his entire life. He was even captain for a while. His name was Bernard Olson. If anyone knows him, I would love to hear tales.

I have one on him: I unexpectedly stopped in some years back for a Christmas visit, with a gift. He felt bad that he had not gotten me something, so he disappeared into the basement for a while and came back with a doorknob. I thought he had finaly gone over the deep end, when he announced that it was from the SS South American. To this day, it is a treasure. It is glass, turned purple from years in the sun.
guest   [Dec 26, 2006 at 08:57 AM]
Just an FYI: This past summer, in 2006, a diving company in Massachussets actually FOUND the S.S. North American. She's at about 200 feet several miles off Nantucket, where she sank in 1967. If you Google her name, you should get the article.

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