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Trinity School cafeteria 1947Posted Wednesday, February 8, at 12:00 AM Feb. 8, 1947 Southeast Missourian Here is a typical noon-day scene in the Trinity School cafeteria, showing pupils eagerly crowding the serving windows, eyeing the delicious food hungrily--and of course, every youngster endeavors to be first in line. The kitchen is one of those efficient units with the most modern equipment. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)...
April 21, 1939 Southeast Missourian This picture shows the mark on a building at the Independence-Water street intersection indicating the height to which the Mississippi River went in 1844 on its highest recorded rampage, the stream reaching a stage of 42.19 feet. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)...
Frony shot this picture of the Top Value Stamps Redemption Store in downtown Cape Girardeau, date unknown. The store at 127 N. Main is listed in the 1956 and 1960 city directories. By 1962, the store had moved to 2146 William, next to the new Kroger supermarket on the west end of Town Plaza. The store is listed there in the 1968 directory...
Pure Ice Co. at 314 S. Ellis St. in Cape Girardeau is shown in this photo from the late 1920s. From "Lost and Saved" Feb. 2, 2006 by Teri Foley: On May 26, 1926, Homer K. Dean established Pure Ice Co., at 314 S. Ellis Street in Cape Girardeau. Dean started delivering ice the very next day to some businesses, but mainly to residential customers. ...
Traffic moves toward Jackson on North Kingshighway at the city limits of Cape Girardeau sometime in the 1950s when there was little commercial development there. (G.D. Fronabarger photo) The view is looking south and the hill leads up to the present Kurre Lane. At the left is Kingsway Drive. In 2012, Plaza Tire Service is located on the site of the block building...
Jake Pollack, a scrap dealer, came to Cape Girardeau in 1916 from Herrin, Ill. That same year, he and his brother, Louis Pollack, established Pollack Hide & Fur Co. on Independence. Fire destroyed that building in 1937. The business moved to another building and later to this structure on West Independence near Highway 61. In 1949, Jake Pollack's son, Sydney, joined the firm, and Pollack Steel Supply Co. was added to provide structural steel and other steel components...
This is one of Frony's earliest photographs. Dec. 23, 1935 Southeast Missourian Workmen are shown here engaged in improving North Main street under a Works Progress Administration project. As the time this photograph was taken the men were working in a block in the Red Star suburb. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)...
This picture was made by an unknown photographer of the sleet and ice storm at Teachers College in Cape Girardeau on Jan. 22, 1927. Jan. 24, 1927 Southeast Missourian Southeast Missouri Hard Hit by Storm; District is Isolated No Wire Communication with Outside World Possible; Thousands of Trees Destroyed by Weight of Ice; Fruit Trees are Ruined...
This picture of Kroger on the west side of the Town Plaza Shopping Center was taken sometime after the store opened on Aug. 11, 1960. Top Value Stamps is next door. (G.D. Fronabarger photo) In 1969, a newly-built Kroger Family Center opened at 2001 Independence...
Frony shot this picture from a Missouri Highway Patrol helicopter. It was published in the Dec. 14, 1959 Southeast Missourian. This view of the Highways 61-25 intersection at Jackson reveals a "hurry up" scene. The car turning to the right was in a big hurry and left his tell-tale skid mark, while the car turning off Highway 25 at the left did not make a full stop before entering the eastbound lane of Highway 61. ...
Oct. 27, 1958 Southeast Missourian This highway post office bus was photographed as it reached the post office in Cape Girardeau. From the left are Archie Reid, assistant postmaster; Ira Bradshaw of Springfield, clerk on the truck; T.R. Regenhardt, Cape postmaster; Harlan Short, postmaster at Jackson; Bob Clark of Springfield, truck driver; Bern Looney, Norman Cornman, Ellis Thomure and Garnet Sanders, local postal employes. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)...
This high-angle view of the 400 block of Broadway was likely taken about 1962 from the top of the Himmelberger-Harrison Building. Trinity Lutheran Church is in the distance on Frederick street. (G.D. Fronabarger photo) A 1962 city directory lists One Hour Martinizing, 418 Broadway. A sign for the business is visible at the bottom of the photo...
Frony took this picture at Childs IGA in 1957. According to the sign above, "Which lady has more time to play?" Matilda, the woman on the left, is making soup the old-fashioned way. Alice is having Heinz soup while the RCA records play. The display was an offer for RCA Victor's Best of '57, a preview record album...
Kroger Co. operated a grocery store at 724 Broadway in the 1950s and earlier. This undated photo was taken by G.D. Fronabarger. The 1954 directory lists Hollie W. Russell as manager. The 1956 and 1958 directories list Cecil J. Bechtlofft as manager. The 1960 directory lists Orvil R. Shamblin as manager...
We have no idea where Frony shot this picture of a soda fountain, possibly in the 1950s.
A small grocery appears to be at the left, with a small meat display case and scale above it.
The foyer of the Esquire Theater in Cape Girardeau displayed movie posters in 1957. "Hold That Hypnotist" was a comedy with Huntz Hall and the Bowery Boys. "Destination 60,000" was a drama with Preston Foster. (G.D. Fronabarger photo) Patrons could enter a limerick contest to win their own South Pacific island. The winner would also receive free transportation and a set of luggage. The contest was a promotion for the movie, "The Little Hut."...
Jan. 3, 1962 Southeast Missourian Close to 75 Cape Girardeau youngsters gather every Saturday morning at Cape Bowling Lanes to take part in instructions and competitive bowling as part of the Missouri Junior Bowling Congress sponsored by the Bowling Proprietors Association. ...
We have been asked about the old Blue Hole Garden which is pictured here on South Sprigg Street. This is not a Frony photo. We got it from Bill and Sue Roussel who edit a newsletter for the 1950s decade of Central High School alumni. According to a July 12, 1987 Southeast Missourian story by John Ramey, the restaurant was founded by William Franz and Lonnie Hill in April 1927. Franz bought out Hill's interest in 1933 and turned the business over to his son-in-law, Ralph Brennecke in 1952...
Dec. 27, 1939 Southeast Missourian Old Man Winter Uses His Brush on Girardeau Landscape This photo made early today reveals the charm of winter's touch on the Cape Girardeau landscape. The view points eastward from Lorimier street into Courthouse Park. The snow-clad warrior is the bronze Civil War veteran who holds eternal vigil over the fountain west of Common Pleas Courthouse, shown in the background. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)...
This photo by Frony was likely taken for Southwestern Bell, possibly in the late 1950s. Feb. 26, 1958 Southeast Missourian advertisement This ad showed a man in a closet saying, "Go ahead, I'm alone now..." Don't close yourself up in a closet when you need to be alone with the phone. ...
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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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