I performed with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra as a guest band on a 4 day cruise from San Pedro. Was sometime in the mid-late eighties. At that time I lived and worked in San Pedro and drove by the cruise terminal everyday going to work. The Southward and that similar Princess Cruise (love boat) were really the only ships always there....before the giant Crystal Star made her appearance.
I remember thinking how large it was also back then....
...but I just got back from a Mexico cruise on the Oosterdam...what a difference!
It's a shame to read some of the reviews on this ship now that it is the Perla in the Mediterrean....sounds like it's really falling apart!
I still have the metallic picture of the ship I won playing pictionary in the main theater!
The Southward
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I performed with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra as a guest band on a 4 day cruise from San Pedro. Was sometime in the mid-late eighties. At that time I lived and worked in San Pedro and drove by the cruise terminal everyday going to work. The Southward and that similar Princess Cruise (love boat) were really the only ships always there....before the giant Crystal Star made her appearance.
I remember thinking how large it was also back then....
...but I just got back from a Mexico cruise on the Oosterdam...what a difference!
It's a shame to read some of the reviews on this ship now that it is the Perla in the Mediterrean....sounds like it's really falling apart!
I still have the metallic picture of the ship I won playing pictionary in the main theater!