Thus, in the spring of that year, they went on to open the Riverview Boat Store. “My dad helped with the business for several years before merging with another boat store (Dubuque Boat Store). He wound up selling his half of the business for a lifetime supply of Vienna sausages and Ritz crackers,” Jeremy said. “During one of those morning sessions they discussed opening a boat store.” “A group of his friends from around Bellevue would sit around the dining room table drinking pots and pots of Folgers coffee brewed from my dad’s Bunn coffee maker, which had made thousands of pots of coffee without ever washing the pot,” he said.
Jeremy recalled a morning ritual at his father’s house that led to the company’s founding.
Don Dixon and Terry Putman, whose son Jeremy stepped in after his father’s death in 2013. The company was founded in 1998 by Capts. Riverview Boat Store & Tug Service, a provider of groceries, supplies and tug assistance based at Mile 557 on the Upper Mississippi River in Bellevue, Iowa, celebrated its 25th anniversary recently with a party for employees, customers and vendors at Diamond Jo Casino in Dubuque, Iowa. Approximately 175 people attended.
