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Melvin and Steve DeBarr on Captain Ernie's Showboat 1968

Below - Lori Ekstrand Garlock on the risers November 1967

Lori again on the risers November 1968

A picture from the Mark Twain Elementary School spring fair from your Capt. Ernie's Showboat days (1966). I hope you are well, and appreciate just how many lives you've touched. Thank you!

Nancy Scheck-Whitehurst

Tracy Burdick Reitan's 5th birthday party! Tracy has blonde pigtails & is next to Ernie in red. Lisa Creen Cahoy is on the other side of Ernie in yellow. Tim VanGoethem is in the front, blonde hair and you can only see his head and shoulders. June 1970 on The Showboat!

Lisa Harrison presents Captain Ernie interviewing kids on the risers on The Showboat in between cartoons!

Can't see me, but this was the "day"...I announced the Three Stooges...and held a card with my name and my age - thanks for the memories!
Lisa Harrison

Lisa Harrison presents Captain Ernie interviewing kids on the risers on The Showboat in between cartoons September 18th, 1968!

Can't see me, but this was the "day"...I announced the Three Stooges...and held a card with my name and my age - thanks for the memories!
Lisa Harrison

If you have any memorabilia, pictures or stories or film of Captain Ernie, please email me!