Cairo Illinois



Cairo's historic downtown main street. Note that the marquee on the theatre is advertising "Riverboat Days" -- Cairo's Fall festival.



Historic Magnolia Manor; everybody slept here.



This beautiful downtown church is boarded up.



Cairo's main post office and court house.



The Cairo Custom House built in 1872.



I took this photo because of the mural painted on the side of the building. It's an obvious copy of the famous Currier & Ives painting of the great steamboat race between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee.



The harbor tow Sharin K. making a hard left turn at the Cairo confluence.



The tow Robert R. Jewell pushing hard up the Mississippi.



The tow Viking Queen loading barges on the Ohio waterfront. What a gorgeous boat!