MONSTER MOVES: THE PRIDE OF THE MISSISSIPPI

[surrealistorg]

What a disaster. See the steamboats-dot-com online museum for photos of how it looks now, destroyed, sitting out on the ground.

[DayWaiter]

Excuse my language .. but what a fricken waste of a beautiful old lady of the river, hope no more old paddlers follow the same fate..... What a complete phuk up

[cwt9090]

update on this beautiful old vessel. I am from here in The Quad Cities of illinois and remember back when she used to be our gambling boat here it was so cool to cross the bridge from Rock Island Illinois over the river to Davenport, Iowa and see her either sitting by the bridge or going up the river for her cruise. After I saw this video I thought I'd contact the newspaper in St. Elmo. Sad news. The President is now just piles of rusted metal and now just a memory.

[Gtageek022]

@cwt9090 indeed very very sad, t's such a lovely ship

[Gtageek022]

very very sad to see such a marvelous vessel gett schred ot bits, then put on dry land as hotel

[Laudrien]

Sad to see a proud ship like that cut to peices and put on dry land.

[marchovens]

@Laudrien yeah it is but its betther than when it got to be recycled and its gone forever

[hacksaw1]

the three fluted whistle was actually off the standin vessel in 1996... which was ironically called the vice president

[Bidmartinlo]

Job nicely done. Well, almost. :3

[hacksaw1]

i feel that the Streckfuses would see a renewed vision in the vessel.

[pianomanthree16]

It's a shame they couldn't find someone to move the poor old boat who had a little more respect for her. What would the Streckfuses say?

[pofoto1950]

I agree with you 100%. Mr Patterson seems to be having way too much fun! As one of the former Chief Engineers on this wonderful vessel, I watched this with a heavy heart......I know Mr. Izzy would have had a few choice words for Mr. Patterson!

[maggy59]

Well done to the team, is there a follow up programme to let us see the finshed ship re-built.?

[Campbell2005LLC]

Fantastic clip! Can't wait to see the finished result!

:)