My diagramatic model of the last dock of Eastland.  The dead end of LaSalle Street is shown in yellow brick. This is where the modern LaSalle Street bridge crosses the Chicago River.  At lower right is the old LaSalle Street traffic tunnel.  The decrepit white frame building is Hausmann's saloon.  The white Eastland gangplank is shown where it touched the decrepit dock. The excursion company office is the red brick building at right. Would you buy a ticket here? Eastland in happier days on Lake Erie en route from Cleveland to Cedar Point park.   The exact color of Eastland's smoke stacks is unknown because these postcards were colored in Germany, and no contemporary writer noticed their color. This is about the year 1913 and we see six lifeboats and a workboat on the boat deck.  She is carrying more people than when she capsized. One of the Eastland ports, South Haven, Michigan.  The Dunkley Wiliams dock boasted this lively dance hall to welcome hardy young excursionists off of the rolling steamers. At left is the hardy wooden steamer Petoskey, later a part of the Western Electric picnic fleet.   This wooden ship steamed from 1898 to 1932 without accident or incident. Here Petoskey shoots the bridges in a later excursion.  These are steel cantilevered spans that replaced the wooden swing bridges of the Eastland era. Petoskey's smoke stack was originally painted black.  This successful wooden boat was   171.5 feet from her stem to her rudder post.  Her beam measurement was only 30 feet in width and her rolling must have been a thrill to the dance-mad younger set.

Images - Happier Days