Quote Originally Posted by Honky Tonk View Post
I'm not sure what the DTE excursion was. The one instance I can remember, it was a date, and she was concerned I left my car parked on Jefferson. [[along with 200 other people) As we headed towards the Boblo boats, I remember thinking, with all the room around this area, parking the boats there was a good idea. I'm not sure how many years they were parked there. A few years later, you had to drive to Gibraltar, and catch a smaller tour-type boat to get to Bob-lo Island.
My father was a DTE retiree and the company chartered the boat for a company picnic. We figured that would be a last hurrah.

A friend of my father was a wheelsman on one of the boats in the 1960s.

I liked the ride better than the island. The best ride was when a sinking had closed the Saint Mary's river, so that a lot up bound of ships had to anchor in the Detroit River. This was in the 1970s when we had a grain deal with the Soviets. Man, those Russian ships are ugly brutes.