Mark Twain

Good looking uniform don't you think.  This was outside a theatre showing an old non talking movie of the Adventures of Mark Twain.  It had the words under the scenes.

We took the one hour tour on the Mississippi River.  This boat is named the Mark Twain. 

This is out of order, but this is the movie that was showing. 

Meanwhile back on the boat.  The numbers on the bridge do not have anything to do with the water depth, well I guess in a way they do, but the numbers show the height that is allowed to go under the bridge.  So the number 60 means the boat could be 60' tall, the number 30 would be 30 feet tall.  Our little Mark Twain boat was 30 feet tall.  There are times, the captain told us, that the river is that high. 

This is the left over sign from the Storrs Ice and Coal Company.  Back before refrigeration they would store and cut ice from the river during the winter and store the ice blocks in straw and then sell them all summer.  The Storrs family did this for several years.  When electricity and refrigeration came to town, they opened an appliance store to keep up with the times.  Now the storage area here is just a ghost town, kinda. 

This lady keeps turning up at the same places I go.  Kinda cute isn't she. 

This is the famous light house that is in the books of Mark Twain.  Just a tourist attraction now. 

Between the town of Hannibal and the port of Hannibal are the rail road tracks.  Lots and lots of trains go through every day.  Coal cars, oil tankers, everything.  Long and loud.  Reminds me of Spokane.