Wagons in vintage Street scenes

hawaii 1962

 

Albany, NY - 1980

 

Chicago

 

Seattle:

 

Ansel Adams

 

Someone described ferries as being a “floating section of a highway.”

This “floating highway” saved drivers a 70-mile round trip drive to Chester, Ill., or Cape to take a bridge across the Mississippi River. When the service started, fare for a car was $1.50, later raised to $2.50. A tractor trailer cost $3.50.

I don’t have the exact date when the ferry ceased running. The Dillon book said that the Inmans ran it from 1966 to 1976.

The Miss June was attached to the middle of the barge with a hinge. When the ferry reached the far shore, the push boat would pivot on the hinge to set up for the return trip.









The journey will take motorists under the 2,150-foot Texas-Illinois pipeline bridge, the longest such bridge in the world.






Credits: Ken Steinhoff photographer



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