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Who Remembers The Samuel Clemens Riverboat in Downtown Baton Rouge?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:28 pm
I remember a few elementary school field trips to ride the Sam Clemens and tour the old train station downtown.
The boat now resides in Boston Harbor, giving tours, and still bears the same name.
Also, photos of the old ferry that crossed at Baton Rouge.
I finally was able to see the ferry, The City of Baton Rouge today again. I haven't set foot on it since I was six years old. It's in LeClaire, Iowa. She needs to come back home.
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We did have a ferry before the I-10 bridge opened, and we once had a tour boat. From 1986 to 1995, the riverboat Samuel Clemens docked off River Road at Florida Street.
The boat now resides in Boston Harbor, giving tours, and still bears the same name.
Also, photos of the old ferry that crossed at Baton Rouge.
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Original price, $22,000. Worked in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her capacity was 500 people and 21 cars. In 1971 her engines were put on the Julia Belle Swain and the ferry was converted into a landing boat for the Julia Belle Swain
I finally was able to see the ferry, The City of Baton Rouge today again. I haven't set foot on it since I was six years old. It's in LeClaire, Iowa. She needs to come back home.
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Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:37 pm to Shexter
Baton Rouge works hard to not be a tourism stop.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:37 pm to Shexter
We had a fraternity party on it back in the day. Nice little booze cruise.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:40 pm to Geaux-2-L-O-Miss
Was the captain Curran Streckfus?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:41 pm to Shexter
I felt my first boob on that boat.
7th grade field trip.
7th grade field trip.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:49 pm to BilltheTiger
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Was the captain Curran Streckfus?
No idea. It was a booze cruise and I was in college drinking.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:51 pm to RougeDawg
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Baton Rouge works hard to not be a tourism stop.
Get a cruising riverboat back and maybe a space needle, and BR could easily be a tourist spot with I-10 running right by downtown.
or even a speedboat like Chattanooga
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:51 pm to Shexter
I had I think my 9th or 10th birthday party on the boat and went to see the USS Kidd afterwards. But that would have been ‘82 or ‘83.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:52 pm to OysterPoBoy
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I felt my first boob on that boat
You touched yourself on the boat?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:58 pm to OysterPoBoy
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I felt my first boob on that boat.
7th grade field trip.
Did she consent? And you were in 7th grade right?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 2:09 pm to BilltheTiger
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Was the captain Curran Streckfus?
I'd say probably
https://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/collections/pott-library-special-collections/collections/pott041-curran-and-streckfus.html
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DATE: 1939-2006
HISTORY: Captain J. Curran Streckfus, Jr. was born into the historic Streckfus family which ran steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers beginning in the late 1800s until the 1980s. The founder of Streckfus Steamers, Incorporated was (Commodore) Captain John Streckfus. His second oldest son was (Captain) Roy and Roy’s son was (Captain) John Curran Streckfus, who in turn had a son named (Captain) John Curran, Jr., known as “Curran.”
Captain Curran was born in St. Louis, Missouri where his father was master of the steamer Admiral, an excursion boat on the Mississippi River. When Curran was about six years old, the family moved to New Orleans where Curran grew, went to school and trained on the steamer President, the company’s excursion boat in that city. Beginning in approximately 1965, Curran spent summers in St. Louis to get more experience with the SS Admiral. While there he earned master’s papers and became alternate captain of the boat, and started residing fulltime in St. Louis. After the Streckfus Company dissolved, Curran started his own company named Streckfus Excursions, Incorporated, and ran an excursion boat in Baton Rouge. Before retiring, Captain Curran also worked for the Baton Rouge Casino and with the state of Louisiana.
Captain Curran and his wife Suzy live in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 3:43 pm to Geaux-2-L-O-Miss
Good memories. I went to a party on that boat with the ADPi's way back in the day.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 3:48 pm to OysterPoBoy
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I felt my first boob on that boat.
7th grade field trip
What subject did she teach?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 3:54 pm to Shexter
I remember one summer that I read all the books
I’m the summer reading list one year and earned 2 tickets for a ride on the Samuel Clemons. My parents never took me. Haha.
I’m the summer reading list one year and earned 2 tickets for a ride on the Samuel Clemons. My parents never took me. Haha.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 4:13 pm to Shexter
1992: Sam Haynes rented the boat to take all us underpaid blue bayou employees out on a drunk river tour.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 4:22 pm to Koolazzkat
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1992: Sam Haynes rented the boat
How'd ya'll get Sam to spend money
Posted on 4/22/25 at 4:38 pm to tigeraddict
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USS Kidd afterwards. But that would have been ‘82 or ‘83.
I remember when I was in second grade, which would have been 85, we spent the night on the USS Kidd. I don't even know what it was for, awhile back I found something that had "USS Kid 1985 sleep over" and it sort of jogged my memory.. If I recall, sleeping in the USS Kid was awful.
I know it has nothing to do with the Samuel Clemens, which I remember..
Posted on 4/22/25 at 4:41 pm to Shexter
Yeah, you’re right!
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