"""88b184 floating restaurant """"Towboat Annie's"""" at Jeffersonville, Indiana (24190395124).jpg"""
{"Image ImageDescription": "Looking NNW from river toward recently-arrived Towboat Annie's restaurant [formerly towboat \"Gregory J\", or \"Gregory Jay\" (doc. # 259375)] near foot of ...Indiana Ave.....Ohio River mile 603..Jeffersonville, Indiana..Feb. 1988....file # 88b184..35 mm Kodachrome..Plustek OpticFilm 7600i..Siverfast 8..Picture Window 6....Twin screw towboat...The steel hull was built at Ambridge, PA by <a href=\"http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergencylarge/wwtwo/americanbridge.htm\" ...rel=\"nofollow\">American Bridge Co.</a> and the rest was completed by the owner, in 1950...It was 140 x 25 x 10.1 [ more likely 103 x 25.1 x 9.8, as listed in Coast Guard documentation ] and powered by GM 12-657 diesels with a total of 1800 hp. ...(Those were placed in 1955)...It was owned by Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co., of Chickasaw, AL, and was originally named \"Choctaw\"...In 1971 it was sold to Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. of Houston and renamed \"Port of Houston\"...In 1978 Hollinger Transportation of Greensville, MS bought the boat and resold it to Bel-Mon Towing Co., of Powhattan Point, OH, who renamed it the \"Gregory ...Jay\"...Sometime after 1978, Ron Grimm bought it (Golden Triangle River Contract & Towing Co., Ltd., of McKees Rocks, PA)...Ron sold it in 1983 to G & C Towing of Point Pleasant, WV...The \"Gregory Jay\" burned in Pittsburgh in 1984, and was sold to River Valley Cruises of South Point, OH...It was converted to a restaurant boat, renamed Towboat Annie's, and berthed in Jeffersonville, Ind., then later in Louisville, Ky...[from <a href=\"http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grimm/photoalbums/towboat_photos/grimm_towboats_a-l/gregory_jay.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael A. Grimm's ...genealogy blog</a>].....In 2002, the restaurant was renamed <a href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/04/22/daily26.html?page=all\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"Port O' ...Call,\"</a> but I don't recall if it ever opened under that name. I think the boat left Louisville soon after that, perhaps in 2003......In 2010, it was cut up for scrap at the foot of the I-470 bridge across from Wheeling WV...[from <a href=\"http://ohio981.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-photos-from-1980s.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">ohio981.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-photos-from-1980s.html</a>, ...comment by Ben Duvall]...Sharpened: USM, radius 1, threshold 3, 100%..JPEG quality 95..", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Artist": "William Alden III", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image Copyright": "William Alden III"}