05/21/2003 - Brass Plaques - Andy Rooney - Steamboats Under Glass - Devil's Backbone The Brass Plaque Nobody Wants   Visitors to Under-The-Hill-Saloon walk through the old building that has served many types of businesses throughout its life. They look at pictures that are scattered throughout the building, some showing scenes 100 years old. They ask questions about the memorabilia hanging on the brick walls. And while they are sitting on one of the barstools or chairs in the saloon they surly see the four glass encased steamboats above the bar. What most visitors don't know is that one of the barstools or chairs they are sitting on may have a brass plaque on it with the name of a person engraved upon it... MORE >> Andy Rooney Commentary A few comments Andy Rooney said on 60 minutes a few weeks back: (for those of you that don't know Andy Rooney, he is a 82 year old US TV commentator) MORE >> Steamboats Replicas Encased In Glass Case As visitors glance around the old saloon one object, or should I say three or four, will surly catch their attention; the replica steamboats built by Captain Howard Tate. MORE >> River City Free Press Does anyone remember the River City Free Press that was published in Natchez? Maxine ran across a copy recently and suggested I put some of it on the saloon's web site. Here are a few articles that were in the November 4, 1990 issue: MORE >> Along the Devil's Backbone The Natchez trace once provided the best route through Mississippi to Tennessee--if you could avoid its rouges, rascals and cold-blooded killers. MORE >> Subscribe To Our Newsletter || Tell A Friend