Posted on 02/22/2014 7:19:18 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Love Boat Goes To The Breakers
For those of us of a certain age, we remember the cheesy, comedic voyages of the Love Boat as a staple of late 1970s TV. Captain Stubing, Gopher, Doc, Isaac and the blond chick would sleep their way through the passengers, smile and serve drinks. All this happened in a tidy hour format complete with laugh track. Well, the ship that was at the core of the show, the Pacific Princess, has finally sailed its last and is at the wreckers in Turkey. Unfortunately, the Turkish ship breakers are not known for saving furnishings or artwork, so all we will likely have are photos of the ship to remind us of its prime.
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Happier days ... Princess Lines Pacific Princess LOVE BOAT of TV Fame at Cabo (oil painting)
Bill Clinton crying in his beer over this.
Exciting and junk.
Probably did more to save the cruise industry than any other single thing.
Love Boat Bump!
It was a visual joke with the minions in Despicable Me 2 — those writers must have figured it was more recognizable than by just those “of a certain age”!
THE LOVE BOAT LOL
BTW I don’t know if you know this ME TV show on Sunday afternoon at 2pm est/pst every week
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Cruised with Princess Lines a couple of times, but not the Pacific Princess. Loved their ships and the service was outstanding. Definitely beats Carnival.
Julie is deeply saddened.
Maybe it’s just me but the boat doesn’t look as big as it once did.
Cheesy TV ping.
Compared to some of the modern cruise ships, it is a bit small.
I looked into the specifications for the ship and it appears that she could carry 626 passengers; a fraction of a modern cruise ship’s capacity.
Ayn Rand...a spoof from The Onion, right?
Maybe if we asked nicely, the Turks would recycle the footage from all the episodes. Thanks DogByte6RER.
Sad when I heard about this. Hate it for any good ship, but much so for this happy memory of my youthful days of nice TV.
My wife decided to play a couple of dollars worth of quarters in the casino. After just a couple of spins the machine "jammed". She had won the $1200 jackpot. We didn't sweat the incidental expenses on the trip after that.
She gave away the t-shirt which had on it, "I won the jackpot on the Love Boat". Might have been worth something today.
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