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I always thought this would be a good place for a resturant...or a set of apartments...

Dive platform.

Might just be a walkway for an old boat launch

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My dad was one of the guys who built that thing back in the day

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Do you know how long ago this was, or could you ask him? For some reason I don't remember it in the mid 80's (I was only 5ish anyway) but I know it was there by '89 and was always an observation deck.

Looks like a place where hobos hang out? Idk, I'd like to know what it used to be and when it shut down.

Mississippi queen and delta queen river boats dock there.

A few hundred people every other week or so are walking all over downtown being "touristy" from the boat cruises. I think they start in Memphis and go all the way to New Orleans.

This is a pier for the megaboats of the future

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Yes, I may have the boat name wrong but I see them there regularly. They even have their own busses to pickup at that dock and drive to different excursions.
LINK to riverboat schedule

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It is called the paper clip dock, at least that's what we call it at work

Is the OP talking about this old dock?













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Or this one (probably this one)?