Evansville In Pictures
Pictures of the city of Evansville in Indiana. These pictures were taken on our last trip to Evansville to visit the relatives. My sister Diana gave us the grand tour.
Reitz Memorial Highschool
Reitz Memorial Highschool - full view...
another view...front
sign.... front entrance...the
big old tree... this is the Catholic highschool me and my sisters went to, located on Lincoln Ave. The top floor had the girls and the basement had the boys. They kept us separated and we all wore uniforms. The nuns were in full habit.
-Saint Mary's Catholic church.... corner
of Cherry and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd... another
view
-Heading downtown... the Evansville
Civic Center...
Old Willard Library
-The old Willard Library... Willard Library
view.....full view... this was a hangout for us and our cousins when we were younger.
The library is so old inside and the wood floors were creaky. Our Grandma Genevieve Kaltenbacker Hayden lived 2 blocks from here.
They added a drive
and parking area, we used to play baseball here.
-around the corner is
Saint Boniface Catholic Church....front
entrance view
Gerst Haus Restaurant
Diana took us to her favorite German American
Restaurant on the West side of Evansville.... it's called the Gerst
Bavarian Haus.... the top of the building says Rosenberger.... inside the restaurant are booths and small tables... here's another view of the decorations near us....
I took a picture of Diana and Vlad in the booth.... the menu cover for the Gerst Haus restaurant.... Gerst Haus menu inside... we ordered the sausage sampler.... the Gerst sampler... and the Bavarian Kraut Balls... yum yum
As we left it started raining. I walked across the street and took another picture of the Gerst Haus. The top of this old building says "B. Nurrenbern," and a stone with the date 1893. Front window decorations had pumpkins and the other window had a display of beer bottles... along with some old pictures.
The Gerst Haus used to be a hardware store. .. the front window also say, "Heldt Voelker Company Tavern" Vlad looks at the old pictures in the window. The Gerst Haus also has an Oyster Bar. Looking up, I took a picture of a sign that says "Paulaner Munchen." Here's an old mailbox that was on the column.
Mesker Zoo
After we left the German restaurant we went to St.
Joseph's Cemetery, but it was still raining and couldn't get out of the car till it stopped.
We left St. Joes and went to Mesker Zoo, but it was closed. We always loved the monkey ship. The ship is still there, but no monkeys.
See another view and here is a better picture of the entrance.
The Downtown Riverfront
We headed downtown to the Evansville riverfront, which is right on the Ohio River. I took some pictures of a casino that they built there to look
like a ferry. Here's another view
of the casino ferry. We didn't go into Casino
Aztar.
We headed down toward the Evansville museum and there is a 4 column monument there. It was still raining, so we parked at the Visitor's Center and walked around for awhile on the levee. There was sign that said the area was a Civil War Camp. Across the street are historical homes.
The Levee Walkway
We walked toward the downtown riverfront and saw that the Ohio River was up and had flooded the ramp. This is not unusual, It does that every year as far back as I can remember. Check out this big log that floated up. The other side of the river is Kentucky.
Here's some warning signs on the ramp, like No Swimming, which is good advice, because the current is too strong. I guess the river was a lot higher, because the ramp was all muddy. Here's a sign about the Ohio River Levee system.
Along the walkway on the levee are story or information boards, and I took some pictures. One has the history of Evansville, called "A Town is Born." "A Dream is Born" "A Sculpture is Born" and here is the sculpture and here is the three flagpoles in front of the sculpture. Another storyboard is called " The Beautiful River... Road to Riches."
There is information about the "Celestial Gate." Here's a picture of the Celestial Gate.
"A River to Enjoy" about the Ohio River Basin
Information about the Indians
and the French explorers and the
settlers and the underground
railroad
Here's a view looking
southeast from the levee and a view
looking northwest from the levee
The Old Nashville Louisville Train
I walked down from the levee to see the old
train. It is an old passenger
train by Louisville and Nashille, and there is a caboose in back. Here's a closer view of the steam engine, and a picture of the front of
the engine..no 1416.
The entrance
to the train museum and
The Evansville Museum was closed that day, but here is the entrance with the times it is open. There is a huge tree in front, but I don't know what kind of tree it is. Here's the leaves.
Pictures of the Riverfront Monument
See the Google map location
-The
Four Freedoms Monument plaque....
large view of the 4 column monument
-a
view of the monument from the levee
-Connecticut
is on one of the stones... On the back is Connecticut
Jan 9, 1788
-Massachusetts
is on one of the stones... Massachusetts
Feb. 6, 1788
-The Great Seal
of the State of New York
-The
Seal of the State of Rhode Island
-Rhode
Island and North Carolina
-There is a stone
for all of the United States
-A time
capsule at the monument, to be opened
July 4, 2176
-In front of the monument are some sculptures for the Korean
War... a closer view...
more detail
-The plaque
in front of the Korean War Memorial
Pictures of the Visitors Center
See the Google map location
The Evansville Visitor's Center is inside of a Pagoda shaped building. Pretty cool looking with it's red
slate roof. Here's a view from the levee
toward the pagola.
-The Visitor's
Center entrance
-a display of Ohio
River ferries
-an information
display for hotels and motels
-They have an old
picture of the riverfront that shows it used to be a shipyard.
-This cannon
was used in the Civil war on the steamer Charley Bowen
-on the front of the cannon... "We Have Come to
Stay"
-Captain Henry
T. Dexter 1872... back of cannon
The LST 325 Ship
After we left the waterfront, Diana wanted to show us another tourist attraction called the LST 325. Here is the entrance gate with the admission fees. It costs $10.00 to go on the ship. Here's a sign pointing toward the entrance...located on the Ohio River, with Kentucky on the other side.
You walk to the ticket booth then follow the ramp to the ship. There is a gun on the front of the ship. There is a banner on the ship that says, "Port of Evansville."
See the Google
map location
See the LST Memorial
website
Miscellaneous and Downtown Pictures
-the
old Public Library... another
view.... the building... now a Children's Museum with a dinosaur
in front
-Main Street view
-I'm glad they saved the old courthouse... courthouse
view.... Vine and Fifth St view
of courthouse.... the decorative
top of the courthouse closeup... full
front of courthouse
-the old post office... Old
Post Office view.... front
entrance
-another historical
building.
-Evansville is called "River
City"... the old YWCA on 2nd Street?....the
new convention center
-a downtown
view with the red brick street... a downtown
water fountain
-our parents used to take us here alot... the Roca
Bar
-our favorite icecream shop is still open... Zesto
on Riverside drive
Evansville Websites
Courier
and Press newspaper
Official city
of Evansville website
Evansville
Convention & Visitors Bureau
Evansville
Museum
Angel Mounds State Historic
Site