Many thanks to Lee Rust for working with the two photos immediately below, showing a boat frequently featured here.
Photo to the left was taken near the elevators in Manitowoc in a slip now filled in and frequently piled high with coal adjacent to Badger‘s slip. In the 1959 photo, the tug was owned by C. Reiss Coal Company. The tug had recently been repainted and repowered (1957). Badger gets regular maintenance, so a similar treatment of that vessel would not evoke the same emotions.
Technically, the two photos above were 58 years apart, so I added the two below which I took in Lyons NY earlier in 2019; hence, six decades apart.
Thanks to Lee and Jeff for providing these photos.
Unrelated: Check out freighterfreak’s photos from Duluth here.
Anyone have similar juxtapositions of a single vessel or vehicle across time, please send it in.
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February 21, 2019 at 12:27 pm
Lee Rust
Step #1 for another 60 years…get her out of the Canal and back into the Lakes where she belongs.
February 21, 2019 at 2:48 pm
Deborah Gamble Wiegand
As I said before in earlier blog postings , my dad, Les Gamble, was the Green Bay/Grouper’s captain from 1954-69 and I am working with Lee and others to see if we can organize a grass-roots group to work towards saving her.t
February 21, 2019 at 2:52 pm
tugster
Deb– I’m ready to help in any way you ask or anyone in your group asks. Time is probably of the essence right now. It might be good to form an adhoc “friends of Green Bay/Grouper” organization and start to raise pledges at least. Someone with legal background would know what that entails.
February 21, 2019 at 4:56 pm
Bob
I have pictures of myself over almost 7 decades. On the whole, Grouper has held up better.