Looking N from Covington levee.
<p>Mike Fink floating restaurant.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Roebling_Suspension_Bridge" class="extiw" title="w:John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge">Roebling Suspension Bridge</a> (Ky. Highway 17; completed 1866) at left.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/RiverfrontStadium.htm">Riverfront Stadium</a> (demolished 2002) in distance.
</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River" class="extiw" title="w:Ohio River">Ohio River</a> mile 470
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington,_Kentucky" class="extiw" title="w:Covington, Kentucky">Covington, Kentucky</a>
November 1987
File # 87k080
</p><p>The restaurant was originally a steam towboat (T1444 in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Way%e2%80%99s+Steam+Towboat+Directory">Way's Steam Towboat Directory</a>), built in 1936 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/dravoboats.htm">Dravo Corp.</a> and owned by Campbell Transportation Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.
It was named "John W. Hubbard" after a Pittsburgh millionaire who was financially connected to the Campbell Line.
In 1947, the boat was sold to the Ohio River Co., and in 1950, it was renamed "Charles Dorrance" (T0379).
In 1957, the boat was decommissioned and used as a harborboat for several years.
At some point in the 1960s, the boat was sold to Capt. John Beatty, who converted it to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2008/02/24/z-apoh_riverboat_0224.ART_ART_02-24-08_B4_IB9EPHS.html">floating restaurant Mike Fink</a>, named for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Fink" class="extiw" title="w:Mike Fink">semi-legendary late 18th/early 19th century riverboater</a>.
The restaurant operated at Covington from 1968 until 2008, when it closed. It was moved to Newport, Kentucky, in early 2014 and, as far as I know, never reopened.
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Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
Picture Window 6.
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JPEG quality 95.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/70020260@N04">William Alden</a> from Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/8509586857/">87k080: Mike Fink restaurant on Ohio River at Covington, Kentucky</a>