THE RIVER QUEEN

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[Robert Collins]

The River Queen was our after-work hangout when I worked on the water front. Jimmy Wong the bartender was well known and one of the best ever.

[tombrooks]

Hosted the annual KISN Christmas Party in 1971 or 1972...

AND NO...nobody fell into the river! (I think that was there year all the staff got either Polaroid Cameras or Electric Hair dryers..)

[miken]

She was originally the Southern Pacific Railway ferry Shasta, built by the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard at San Francisco about 1922. After bridges killed business on SF Bay Shasta was bought by Capt. Peabody's Black Ball Line and went to work on Puget Sound. She worked for Washington State Ferries after they bought out Capt. Peabody until 1958 when she was sold to interests on the Columbia River. Sometime later she was renamed River Queen and bacame a restaurant in Portland until 1995. Now she's rotting away on a remote stretch of the Columbia River across from Kalama, Washington.

http://www.evergreenfleet.com/shasta.html

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