Coney Island 1

 


Island Queen-2e.jpg (131222 bytes)                    Island Queen-2g.jpg (102913 bytes)                    Island Queen-2j.jpg (113606 bytes)

 

Island Queen-2k.jpg (111556 bytes)                    Island Queen-2h.jpg (141470 bytes)

 

Queen landing 9.jpg (108659 bytes)                Speedboat.jpg (100710 bytes)                Unknown landing.jpg (96302 bytes)
     Not sure where the                     Speed boat heading for Coney                Not sure what boat this is.
Queen is in this image.                                                                                                                                   

   The first card shows the Island Queen on one of its excursion trips that it took during the off-season. You can see smaller boats that the passengers are getting ready to launch to take them home.

 

Island Queen Cover.jpg (111280 bytes)
Island Queen Envelope

 

1960 - 1970's

Johnston Party Boat at Coney.jpg (109438 bytes)
Johnston Party Boat

 

DISEMBARKING  PASSENGERS  AT  CONEY  ISLAND  LANDING

Island Queen Landing-n1.jpg (126963 bytes)    Queen landing 1.jpg (152969 bytes)    Island Queen-1g.jpg (89964 bytes)    Queen landing 7.jpg (112565 bytes)    Queen landing 6.jpg (118435 bytes)
Same image - different interpretations                                                                                                

   The wood planking you see were laid across the shallow mud from the permanent dock to the boat. In the summertime when the river was low the boats could not get close to the dock.

 

Queen landing 5.jpg (89457 bytes)        Island Queen-1a.jpg (101390 bytes)                  Princess-ax.jpg (94145 bytes)                Princess at Coney.jpg (202684 bytes)
                              Same image different colors                                      The Princess. Train on Kentucky side    The Princess loading passengers
                                                       Strange retouches in background

   You can tell the Princess, in the last postcard above, is at Coney Island because of the background on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. They must be loading up for the trip back to Cincinnati because the passengers on board would be rushing the gangplank if it had just arrived in this 1907 image.

 

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                                      RPPC                                                            Private mailing cards

 

Queen landing 8.jpg (127925 bytes)        Queen landing 4.jpg (130657 bytes)        Island Queen-2b.jpg (111705 bytes)        Island Queen-2b2.jpg (119744 bytes)
                                                                                                       Taken same day. Train can be seen in 2nd card

   The small boat seen on the left edge of the right hand card above shows the Coney Island passenger ferry that shuttled people from Campbell County in Kentucky to Coney. This boat eventually became part of the fleet of BB Riverboats, as a workboat. In the 1970s, she was refurbished for passenger ferry service on weekends between Rising Sun, Indiana, and Rabbit Hash, Kentucky under the name Rabbit Transit Authority.

 

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                                                                                                                          new gate built in 1925

   The entrance gate you see in the 2nd card above had been a familiar sight for 30 years. In 1925 a new entrance was erected. On one end was a lighthouse (watchtower) with a beacon light in the tower's cupola to aid boats arriving and departing at night.

 

CI landing.jpg (283659 bytes)

 

Coney Yuletide.jpg (677092 bytes)
Xmas card

 

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