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Exploring Mobile in the shadow of the SS United States’ final journey
All eyes were on Mobile, Alabama, last March when the SS United States, with its dual smokestacks in faded red and white, slid into Mobile Bay with the help of a few tugboats. As the ocean liner progressed into port, the city’s skyline stood as a dramatic, modern backdrop against this symbol of the last glory days of ocean travel. Within the ship’s rusted walls, countless stories glided, suspended in the air, joining the ones that lay beneath the glittering, metal-clad skyscrapers rising above it.