Comments On: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933 by Vance Lauderdale

Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

peterwertz — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:31:30 -0500

Naming of roads, streets, and avenues was left up to developers in many instances. My father, who worked for the Treadwell family and who were in the group of original Memphis families, told me they had developed the land bordered by Quince and I-240.
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Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

Vance Lauderdale — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:46:24 -0500

Peterwertz, I meant to tell you that is a great map. Thanks for sharing it.
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Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

peterwertz — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:49:20 -0500

Warbird, I would be proud to be one of Vance's minions ... I wish I still lived closer to Memphis ... but the outstanding warrants keep me away!
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Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

warbirdali — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:55:46 -0500

PS Peterwertz that map has FINALLY explained the house-numbering system for houses to me! Maybe all Americans are taught it at birth but I knew it wasn't distance in feet from the river (or the post office marker), and yards still didn't seem to be correct ... now I know it is 10's of feet. Brilliant!
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Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

warbirdali — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:45:32 -0500

"Steam Heated"? That sold it for me, do they have online booking?.
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Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

peterwertz — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:40:07 -0500

The short street car ride up 2nd to the Wolf River Bridge would not have been much for people that lived in a city that was only slightly larger than 5 miles square. The showboat being docked at the foot of Second on the Wolf river is not an improbability, I have read stories how the Wolf River during the "War of Northern Aggression" was able to be traveled by steamboat all the way to Moscow.
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Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

rvrman — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:18:20 -0500

Funny you should ask this now, Vance. I belong to another forum where someone else was asking about this same boat.
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Re: The "Hollywood" Showboat - 1933

Devin Greaney — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:30:34 -0500

I remember this production involved seven friends who graduated from college in Georgetown and began to adjust to life after graduation. One played the saxophone, another was studying to be a lawyer and infatuated with a beautiful young doctor.
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