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Broadway line for Pancake Day
Posted Friday, March 19, at 7:30 AM
Lions Club members in Cape Girardeau have been flipping flapjacks since the late 1930s.
Here is the scene on Broadway as published in the Southeast Missourian, April 3, 1947:
Waiting for pancakes was a pastime indulged in by many Girardeans Wednesday who stood in line in order to sample the products turned out by the Lions Club during their ninth annual Pancake Day. The photograph was taken at the height of the noon rush hour in front of the Millikan Motor Co. salesroom, where the event was held. Several times during the day the waiting line extended out Broadway for the length of the block. Tabulation revealed that 632 servings were made, including 340 which were paid for at the door. Nearly 4300 tickets were sold in advance, it was reported, making the total sale close to 4800. As a result, the Lions will realize approximately $1200, from which expenses will be deducted. The final amount will be a relief fund. (Photo by G.D. Fronabarger)
Lions Club Pancake Day locations:
1939-42 Himmelberger-Harrison Building, Broadway & Fountain 1943 421 Broadway 1944 Vedder Building (adjoining the Missourian Building) 1945-48 Millikan Motors, 817 Broadway 1949 Flentge's Appliance, 14 N. Sprigg St. 1950 Statler Implement Co., 10 N. Sprigg St. 1951-55 Frissell Building, 6-8 N. Spanish St. 1956-59 617 Good Hope St., former Orpheum Theater building 1960-present Arena Building
Editor's Note:
Jackson Pancake Day mystery photograph was identified by Jim Rapp.
Midweek Mystery: Pancake Day - mystery solved This picture by G.D. Fronabarger was taken at a Pancake Day. We don't know the year, and we don't think it was the event sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Lions Club. It appears to be in a school building with blackboards at the back of the room. School-age children are there too...
Legendary Central coach Lou Muegge Coach Louis W. Muegge speaks to Central High School students, with his 1954 state champion Tigers basketball team behind him, following the 79-55 win over the Christian Brothers Cadets of St. Louis. It was the first state basketball title for Central. The game was played at Houck Field House on March 6, 1954. The picture was taken by G.D. Fronabarger...
Fans watch St. Louis Browns at Capaha Park G.D. Fronabarger took this picture, possibly in 1944, of what may have been one of the largest crowds to see a baseball game at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau. It was when the St. Louis Browns held their spring training in Cape Girardeau. The Browns were playing their minor league affiliate, the Toledo Mud Hens. The Browns trained here 1943-45 and the Mud Hens were here 1944-45...
Midweek Mystery: Batting cage for St. Louis Browns? This photo by G.D. Fronabarger may show the batting cage being assembled at Capaha Park for the St. Louis Browns in 1943. The major league team, now the Baltimore Orioles, trained in Cape Girardeau for three consecutive springs during World War II...
Car rolls off wharf, crashes into towboat Leaving its parking place on Water Street, just north of Broadway, a 1935 Oldsmobile sedan owned by Mrs. W.L. Perkinson of Cape Girardeau on Jan. 18, 1941 rolled across the Frisco Railroad tracks, down the river levee and crashed into a U.S. Corps of Engineers towboat tied up at the Cape Girardeau riverfront...
Wharf parking to end Southeast Missourian, March 21, 1956: Wharf parking poses problem; area soon will be closed to vehicles Despite its cobblestone surface, its slant and the obvious danger, the Mississippi River wharf at the foot of Broadway and Themis street is used extensively for parking, especially by store owners and clerks in the Main street business area. The picture showing vehicles on the wharf is representative of the situation almost any day...
Midweek Mystery: Funny's drunk We do not know who, what, when, where or why about this picture taken by G.D. Fronabarger.
The sign reads: "Keep out. Funny's drunk and his bullets are hot."
I. Ben Miller ice cream factory The I. Ben Miller ice cream factory is shown at the Water street location, between Independence and Themis. According to "City of Roses," the building faced east on Water street and was built between 1880 and 1885. It was removed in the early 1930s when the Montgomery Ward store was constructed...
Broadway 400 block in 1929 Two school children wait to cross Broadway at the Middle Street intersection in this picture taken in 1929. Behind them, the Red Check Kitchen provided dinner for 35 cents. Next door to the east is a barber shop. Other stores with visible signs include the I. Ben Miller drug and ice cream store, Metropolitan Cafe, Greyhound Bus Station and Hotel Idan-Ha. Across the street on the north side of Broadway is Montgomery Ward & Co...
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Fred Lynch has captured images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.
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