My main memories of this ride date well after '68, having long since lost interest in the ride just when the young women skippers in skirts and knee socks started looking good to me. That and, if memory serves, the girls would simply sit atop the roof of the boat -- there was no wheelhouse, just halfhearted attempts to 'steer' the boat and remembering to duck for all the bridges.

That must be one of the more surreal cast positions to work in the entire park. Worse, your calves never get tan.

Detail of the above photo showing my memory did indeed serve correctly about those knee socks. Now why is Jacqueline Onassis piloting our boat?

And where the hell is my pith helmet?!