[SeMissourian.com] A Few Clouds ~ 66°F  
River stage: 22.19 ft. Rising
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Barn painters of Campus High (05/18/12)

Mystery photos solved 5/16/2012 (05/16/12) 1

Wille's Bakery (05/14/12) 3

Garland D. Fronabarger, cub reporter (05/11/12) 1

South Highway 61 accident scene (05/09/12)

Mystery mules: auction day? (05/07/12)

House move not smoothe (05/04/12) 3

St. Mary's High School (05/02/12) 2

Broadway trolley gone, remnants remain (04/30/12) 2

Chamber gunning for members (04/27/12)

Courthouse corner 1967 (04/25/12) 1

Golden Troopers at Sportsman's Park (04/23/12)

Broadway torn up, then and now (04/20/12)

Cape Transit Co. - Erlbacher building (04/18/12)

First National Bank moves (04/16/12) 2

Montgomery Ward (04/13/12) 1

Campster School sack race (04/11/12) 2

They Call It Smelterville! (04/09/12) 4

Billy Sunday's Tabernacle (04/06/12) 4

Plaidland (04/04/12) 2

Hely Stone Co. (04/02/12)

Good Hope and Sprigg St. 1929 (03/30/12) 1

Hoffmeister garbage truck (03/28/12)

Cherry Florist (03/26/12) 1

Great River Road (03/23/12)

"Alton Giant" visits Cape (03/21/12) 2

Firemen thrill Franklin pupils (03/19/12) 1

Round Barn with Tree House (03/16/12) 2

St. Francis Hospital addition (03/14/12) 3

Johnny Appleseed and the Angel (03/12/12) 2

Hirsch-Tinsley (03/09/12)

Streetcar on Good Hope (03/07/12) 1

Early Kingshighway (03/05/12) 3

Shoe factory parking (03/02/12) 1

Trinity School kindergarten 1947 (02/29/12) 3

Courthouse corner 1909 (02/27/12)

Shivelbine's Music Store 1963 (02/24/12) 1

McDonald's Golden Arches (02/22/12) 1

Astronaut John Glenn with RFK in Cape (02/20/12) 1

James Wrecker fleet (02/17/12) 2

Cape Frozen Foods (02/15/12)

The Wagon Wheel (02/13/12) 1

Walther's Furniture (02/10/12) 2

Trinity School cafeteria 1947 (02/08/12) 1

Silent Witness to 1844 Flood (02/06/12)

Top Value Stamps (02/03/12) 1

Pure Ice Co. (02/01/12) 1

Cape's north city limits 1950s (01/30/12) 1

Pollack Hide & Fur Co. (01/27/12) 1

Early WPA workers 1935 (01/25/12) 1

Ice Storm at Academic Hall 1927 (01/23/12) 1

Kroger in Town Plaza (01/20/12)

"Eye in the Sky" at Jackson (01/18/12) 1

Highway Post Office Bus (01/16/12) 4

Snow covers Broadway (01/13/12) 1

Heinz soup at Childs IGA (01/11/12) 1

Kroger on Broadway (01/09/12) 2

Mystery: Soda Fountain (01/06/12) 1

Esquire Theater foyer 1957 (01/04/12)

Cape Bowling Lanes (01/02/12) 1

Blue Hole Garden (12/30/11) 8

Old Man Winter uses his brush (12/28/11)

Color Telephones (12/26/11) 1

Broadway Christmas (12/23/11) 1

Main Street Christmas (12/21/11)

Kiwanis bell ringers (12/19/11) 1

Good Hope Christmas (12/16/11) 2

Christmas tree wonderland (12/14/11)

Blomeyer Junction 1954 (12/12/11) 1

Tree of Lights 1959 (12/09/11)

Jefferson School 1920s (12/07/11) 1

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (12/05/11) 1

Spanish and Independence traffic (12/02/11)

Dee Dee's Shoe Outlet (11/30/11) 1

"Salute to Santa Claus" parade (11/28/11)

Street signs for Cape Girardeau (11/25/11)

Cape Girardeau Business College (11/23/11) 1

Cape Girardeau Traffic Bridge (11/21/11)

High water at Burfordville (11/18/11)

Dutchtown Highway 25-74 (11/16/11) 4

Twin Trees Park 1949 (11/14/11)

Veterans Day at Bandshell (11/11/11)

Mary Ann Roller Rink (11/09/11) 6

Confederate Memorial on Morgan Oak (11/07/11) 7

Mardi Gras Bistro (11/04/11)

Cyclone strikes Haarig 1936 (11/02/11) 4

Frony's Aerial Peril (10/31/11)

Teachers Recess Downtown (10/28/11) 2

John S. Cobb School razed (10/26/11)

Home of the Birds (10/24/11) 3

SEMO Homecoming display (10/21/11) 2

Cars jam Murtaugh Park (10/19/11) 3

Broadway Theatre - Golden Troopers (10/17/11) 1

Auto Barge 1949 (10/14/11)

Ozark Air Lines (10/12/11) 1

Fire Prevention Week at Junior High (10/10/11)

Cape County Volunteer Fire Dept. (10/07/11)

27 North Main: 1925 (10/05/11) 1

Parking Meters Downtown (10/03/11) 1

Cahoon Building (09/30/11)

Sunny Hill Dairy 1941 (09/28/11) 2

Bald Knob Cross 1959 (09/26/11) 1

Lesem Tire Co. (09/23/11) 1

Biederman Outlet, Goodyear razed (09/21/11)

Biederman's Furniture (09/19/11) 1

Triple Ferris Wheels at SEMO Fair (09/16/11) 2

Air marker, SEMO Fair (09/14/11) 2

Harness Racing at SEMO Fair (09/12/11)

The Barn Drive-In (09/09/11) 4

Childs IGA Supermarket (09/07/11) 2

Billboards on Broadway (09/05/11)

Leather football helmets (09/02/11)

The Bee Store (08/31/11)

Buckner-Ragsdale Co. (08/29/11) 4

Early aerial: Water Street and Broadway (08/26/11)

Early Water Street and Broadway (08/24/11) 1

Cape Choraliers (08/22/11) 1

Brothers of the Brush (08/19/11)

Sesquicentennial Youth Day Parade (08/17/11)

Sesquicentennial Parade (08/15/11)

Sesquicentennial Pageant (08/12/11) 1

One-Way Broadway 1956 (08/10/11) 1

Rooster Day (08/08/11) 2

Another Downtown Clock 1939 (08/05/11)

Kiddy Land (08/03/11) 3

Capahas Baseball 1955 (08/01/11)

Homecomers Crowd (07/29/11)

Homecomers High Wire (07/27/11)

Scrap Metal for World War II (07/25/11) 1

Kelley's Market (07/22/11) 5

Shoe Shine Boy (07/20/11)

Saveway Oil Co. and Motor Courts (07/18/11) 2

Renovating Fort D (07/15/11) 2

Auxiliary Police 1956 (07/13/11) 3

Summer Playground (07/11/11) 4

Candies at W. T. Grant Co. (07/08/11)

Milk truck hits barbershop (07/06/11) 2

Fairground Park pool opens 1919 (07/04/11) 1

Woolworth's Lunch Counter (07/01/11) 6

Downtown Clock moved to H-H Building (06/29/11) 1

First Downtown Clock - Sturdivant Bank (06/27/11) 2

Vaccinate 4091 in 1957 (06/24/11) 1

Long line for smallpox vaccinations (06/22/11) 1

Logging on the River (06/20/11) 4

Fast-Draw Contest (06/17/11) 1

Gun Show at Arena Building (06/15/11)

Visit Historic Cape Girardeau (06/13/11)

Dennis Scivally Park: then and now (06/10/11) 2

Riverfront marker at Frisco Park (06/08/11)

Planters Mill and the cove (06/06/11)

Crane wrecked on river wall (06/03/11) 3

River wall wrecked (06/01/11) 2

Memorial Day at Cape Rock 1960 (05/30/11)

A younger face on World War memorial (05/27/11) 6

Corduroy road below Broadway (05/25/11) 3

Dari-Castle (05/23/11) 7

Cape Girardeau Building and Loan Association (05/20/11) 2

Wimpy's Last Stand (05/18/11) 3

May Greene Garden (05/16/11) 3

Downtown Merchants Push Clean-Up Week (05/13/11) 3

Steamer Avalon (05/11/11) 2

Moon Distributing Co. (05/09/11) 3

Windy Bar refugees 1939 (05/06/11)

More Spanish Street flooding (05/04/11) 2

Spanish Street flooding 1951 (05/02/11) 5

Main Street Boaters (04/29/11) 3

Broadway and Caruthers flooding 1950s (04/27/11) 11

Cars jam Cape Rock 1938 (04/25/11)

Easter Sunrise: Cape Rock 1939 (04/22/11) 2

Sunrise at Cape Rock (04/20/11) 11

Cape's last Civil War link (04/18/11) 19

Sani-Cream (04/15/11) 11

Water St. building demolition (04/13/11) 7

Double tracks on riverfront (04/11/11)

Water Street before the floodwall (04/08/11) 3

Bremermann house on Broadway (04/06/11) 2

Temporary Levee for Shoe Factory (04/04/11) 2

Giant cypress was Missouri's largest (04/01/11) 1

Windmill Drive-In (03/30/11) 7

Young Cape Wrestlers (03/28/11)

River Floods: Frony speaks (03/25/11) 3

Search Floodway for Refugees 1937 (03/23/11)

Browns and Mud Hens arrive 1945 (03/21/11) 7

SEMO cagers second in nation 1961 (03/18/11) 1

State College dribblers cover 140 miles (03/16/11) 2

Parsley & Uhls: Knights of Hardwood Court (03/14/11) 2

State College 1961 basketball team (03/11/11) 7

Central High 1949 basketball team (03/09/11)

Central High basketball rally 1949 (03/07/11) 4

Crowds pack Arena for basketball (03/04/11) 11

Gen. Evangeline Booth at Arena (03/02/11)

Thunderbird Club: raided, robbed (02/28/11) 8

Railroad underpasses long gone (02/25/11) 1

Cape Girardeau Northern depot (02/23/11) 3

Cape Transit school bus (02/21/11) 1

"Come in and be Whisked" (02/18/11) 9

Deer hunter shoots bobcat (02/16/11) 6

Say Ah-h-h-h-h-h! (02/14/11) 2

Downtown Parking, Inc. (02/11/11) 5

Buildings bite the dust (02/09/11) 9

Broadway and Main Street 1960 (02/07/11) 10

Sunny Hill Dairy truck fleet (02/04/11) 3

Coon hunting winter catch (02/02/11) 3

Miss Nell Holcomb (01/31/11) 2

Frony breaks ice, gets wet, makes news (01/28/11) 5

Walking across frozen Mississippi River (01/26/11) 7

Arctic scene at Mississippi River (01/24/11) 8

Snow driving on Broadway (01/21/11) 12

Original Central High gymnasium (01/19/11) 5

A chilly walk along Broadway (01/17/11) 4

John L. Wescoat: the Trail of Tears State Park story (01/14/11)

Grover Golliher house at Trail of Tears site (01/12/11) 1

House built for riverman at Trail of Tears site (01/10/11) 3

Hiking future Trail of Tears site (01/07/11) 2

Trail of Tears State Park (01/05/11) 3

Iona School near future State Park (01/03/11) 1

Before Photoshop: New Year 1936 (12/31/10) 2

Don McNeely's Band (12/29/10) 5

Basketball Fever! (12/27/10) 4

The Christmas Story (12/24/10)

School's Out for Christmas (12/22/10)

Duck Hunters (12/20/10) 4

Western Auto window shopping (12/17/10) 5

Firemen Repair Toys for Christmas (12/15/10) 3

Downtown Christmas shoppers (12/13/10) 1

Horstman Theatre in Chaffee (12/10/10) 2

Floodwall Construction 1957 (12/08/10) 1

Santa Claus Arrives on Ozark (12/06/10) 2

Shoe Factory Workers Strike (12/03/10) 7

Midweek Mystery: NUT Junction (12/01/10) 5

Fallout Shelter: Civil Defense at Arena (11/29/10) 4

Kiwanis Sponsors Magician (11/26/10) 2

Mystery Solved: Turkey Farm (11/25/10) 6

Big Muddy flood threat/Mystery Solved (11/22/10) 1

Honkers Boat Dock: 1958 Thunderbird (11/19/10) 2

Midweek Mystery: Deer Hunters (11/17/10) 2

Cape State College MIAA football champs 1955 (11/15/10)

Freedom Corner: War Service Board (11/12/10) 2

Midweek Mystery: Celebrating Falcon (11/10/10) 2

Audio Slideshow: Frony talks about his early career (11/08/10) 3

Leaf collection in Cape Girardeau (11/05/10) 6

Midweek Mystery: Contest Winner? (11/03/10) 6

Pontoon Bridge at Fairground Park (11/01/10) 4

SEMO Homecoming: Golden Eagles (10/29/10) 6

Midweek Mystery: Wheat Harvest (10/27/10) 5

Arena Building under construction (10/25/10) 8

Capaha Park aerial early 1960s (10/22/10) 3

Bollinger Mill high water (10/20/10)

Capaha Park aerial 1940s (10/18/10) 1

Mailsters for Cape Girardeau (10/15/10) 5

Midweek Mystery: Downtown Merchants (10/13/10) 2

Batten-Weiss Furniture flooded (10/11/10) 5

Albert Hall demolished (10/08/10) 6

Mystery Solved: Trail of Tears Park road (10/06/10) 4

Golden Troopers and Gen. MacArthur (10/04/10) 2

Cape soldier home, was prisoner of North Korea (10/01/10) 6

Midweek Mystery: Phone Booth at Capaha Park (09/29/10) 10

Ten-Mile Garden (09/27/10) 4

Old McKendree Chapel (09/24/10) 2

Midweek Mystery: Illmo at Night (09/22/10) 6

"Route 66" TV star gets his kicks in Cape (09/20/10) 7

The Last Chance Bar in 1949 (09/17/10) 7

Mystery Solved: Little Theatre Play (09/15/10) 2

Roses on Broadway (09/13/10) 7

Foreign Car Show in 1957 (09/10/10) 8

Midweek Mystery: Frony's Shadow (09/08/10) 5

Frisco depot after 1944 flood (09/06/10) 10

Sunny Hill Restaurant (09/03/10) 20

Midweek Mystery: Cotton Picking (09/01/10) 4

Snake Hill on Cape Rock Drive (08/30/10) 6

Big alligator gar (08/27/10) 5

Mystery Solved: Twin Calves (08/25/10) 3

Cape's Courtroom in Former Church (08/23/10) 6

Chaffee Tornado 1940 (08/20/10) 2

Mystery Solved: Barbecue Chef (08/18/10) 6

Double Slide at Capaha Park (08/16/10) 7

What the Hay! (08/13/10) 8

Midweek Mystery: Gigging in the Creek (08/11/10) 7

Boat Races on the River 1955 (08/09/10) 2

Fire on the baseball field (08/06/10)

Mystery Solved: Mule Team (08/04/10) 5

Colony Club Fire 1959 (08/02/10) 7

Mayor Walter H. Ford (07/30/10)

Mystery Solved: Making Apple Butter (07/28/10) 4

Rush H. Limbaugh III in kindergarten (07/26/10) 6

Travelers Cafe (07/23/10) 3

Mystery Solved: The Skillet (07/22/10) 7

First concrete poured Interstate 55 (07/19/10) 2

United Oil Co. flooded on Kingshighway (07/16/10) 1

Midweek Mystery: More Fashion Fun (07/14/10) 2

Bamby Bread (07/12/10)

Presidential candidate Robert Taft (07/09/10) 1

Correction: Beacon City of Five States (07/07/10)

Old police station 1956 (07/05/10)

City Council meets Nieuw Amsterdam council (07/02/10) 1

Midweek Mystery: Fashion Show (06/30/10) 3

Kite Carnival at Jefferson School (06/28/10) 2

Former oval pool is formal garden 1961 (06/25/10) 1

Mystery Solved: Wayward Calf, Steers Corralled (06/23/10) 1

New Pool at Capaha Park opens 1957 (06/21/10) 5

More fun at the oval pool (06/18/10) 4

Midweek Mystery: First Train Ride (06/16/10) 3

High slide at Capaha Park oval pool (06/14/10) 1

First Municipal Pool at Capaha Park (06/11/10) 3

Midweek Mystery: Model Airplanes (06/09/10) 1

Beacon City of Five States (06/07/10) 1

Dennis Scivally Park in 1930s (06/04/10) 2

Midweek Mystery: Downtown Women (06/02/10) 4

Pepsi-Cola Ted Schott Distributing Co. (05/31/10) 2

Go-Kart Racing 1961 - TWIKA Speedway (05/28/10) 3

Mystery Solved: Sandlot baseball players (05/26/10) 1

Golden Gloves boxing (05/24/10)

1st Franklin School principal retires (05/21/10) 5

Midweek Mystery: Square Dancing (05/19/10) 1

Crazy Women Golfers (05/17/10) 3

Fire destroys Elks Building in 1938 (05/14/10) 1

Midweek Mystery: Tug of War (05/12/10) 2

Elks Club on Themis Street (05/10/10) 2

Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Week (05/07/10) 8

Mystery Solved: Well-dressed boys (05/05/10) 5

Auto Tire and Parts, Walther's in 1920s (05/03/10) 7

Cape Chamber of Commerce on Broadway (04/30/10) 1

Mystery Solved: Chevy vs. tree (04/28/10) 11

Cape Chamber "Round Up" (04/26/10) 6

More Kiwanis Fabulous Follies (04/23/10) 1

Midweek Mystery: Batjer Sundial (04/21/10) 7

Kiwanis Fabulous Follies became Jaycee Follies (04/19/10) 1

Erlbacher Building: Edsel was first (04/16/10) 3

Mystery Solved: That's a HUGE tree! (04/14/10) 4

Marquette Natatorium (04/12/10) 4

Millikan Motor Co. (04/09/10)

Mystery Solved: Bowling (04/07/10) 4

Broadway Fruit Market (04/05/10)

Community Theater with Don McNeely (04/02/10) 2

Midweek Mystery: Kester's Place (03/31/10) 2

Beard's Sports Shop, Wayne's Grill (03/29/10) 6

Fishing buddies, Broadway pals (03/26/10) 9

Midweek Mystery: A man and his possum (03/24/10) 4

Pla-Mor, Mrs. Miller's Cafe (03/22/10) 3

Broadway line for Pancake Day (03/19/10) 2

Mystery Solved: Pancake Day (03/17/10) 1

Legendary Central coach Lou Muegge (03/15/10) 3

Fans watch St. Louis Browns at Capaha Park (03/12/10) 7

Midweek Mystery: Batting cage for St. Louis Browns? (03/10/10) 1

Car rolls off wharf, crashes into towboat (03/08/10) 6

Wharf parking to end (03/05/10) 8

Midweek Mystery: Funny's drunk (03/03/10) 5

I. Ben Miller ice cream factory (03/01/10) 2

Broadway 400 block in 1929 (02/26/10) 3

Mystery Solved: Not drainage ditch dinner (02/24/10) 7

Kent Library 1940s (02/22/10) 4

Winter walk on Broadway (02/19/10) 7

Mystery Solved: Pepsi truck wreck (02/17/10) 7

Dredging Capaha Lagoon (02/15/10) 4

Grader blading snow in Cape Girardeau (02/12/10) 8

Mystery Solved: Snowman builders at first CHS (02/10/10) 3

Original Wimpy's: nickel burgers (02/08/10) 8

Cape Central city champs 1952-53 (02/05/10) 5

Midweek Mystery: Notre Dame vs. Central basketball 1960s (02/03/10) 10

Colonial Tavern (02/01/10) 3

Ice skating at Capaha Lagoon (01/29/10) 6

Mystery Solved: Drive-In, not drive-thru (01/27/10) 1

Airline Club (01/25/10) 4

Cape Drive-In Theater (01/22/10)

Midweek Mystery: Jimmie Thompson's (01/20/10) 4

Star Vue Drive-In Theater (01/18/10) 3

Alvarado (01/14/10) 6

Pfister's was Park-N-Eat; mystery solved (01/11/10) 5

Wagon Wheel, Eat Shop front old Opera House (01/07/10) 2

Old Opera House was Turner Hall (01/04/10) 1

Wood blocks removed from Broadway in 1917 (12/31/09) 5

Christmas tree bonfire (12/28/09)

Christmas parade on Broadway 1955 (12/24/09) 1

Kids meet Santa Claus at Town Plaza (12/21/09) 3

Santa Claus arrives at Town Plaza by helicopter (12/17/09) 5

Southwestern Bell renovation in progress (12/14/09) 4

Southeast Mo. Telephone Co. 1930s (12/10/09) 2

Old telephone building, Broadway Theatre in 1929 (12/07/09) 1

Broadway 700 block in 1929 (12/03/09) 1

Bartels Mercantile Co. burns in 1937 (11/30/09) 1

Bartels Store, 430 Broadway, closes in 1957 (11/23/09) 1

Old Post Office had Cape's first revolving door (11/16/09) 6

Old Post Office (Federal Building) 1958 (11/09/09) 3

Fire destroys Hotel Idan-Ha (11/02/09) 3

Hotel Idan-Ha (10/26/09) 5

Harris Motor Car Co. 1930s (10/19/09) 1

Broadway pre-Hirsch Tower (10/13/09) 1

SEMO Homecoming 1957 (10/08/09) 5

Mule Racing (10/05/09) 1

Remember Park-N-Eat? (09/29/09) 6

Remember Wimpy's? (09/24/09) 8

Remember Wimpy's? (09/24/09)

Past Pics
Ronald Reagan visits Cape Girardeau in 1979
(06/06/09) 4

Past Pics
SEMO Commencement 1984: graduates hear Judge Limbaugh predict life in 2000
(05/07/09)

Past Pics
Kow Pasture Klassic
(04/25/09)

Past Pics
Jackson buys rail line in 1984
(04/17/09)

Past Pics
Steeple falls, Trinity demolished
(04/13/09) 3

Past Pics
Easter yard display 2004
(04/10/09)

Past Pics
Mayor Jay Knudtson sworn in 7 years ago
(04/05/09) 2

Past Pics
"Motion" ties these 1999 photos
(03/29/09)

Past Pics
Cape's new public library begins 30 years ago
(03/22/09)

Past Pics
Butch, bridge, bones & Emerson
(03/16/09)

Past Pics
'84 World's Fair touches Scott City
(03/09/09)

Past Pics
Blizzard of '79
(02/22/09) 11

Past Pics
SEMO's Bud Eley:
Hoopster plays in Spain
(02/19/09)

Past Pics
The first Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Award
(02/16/09) 1

The Last Chance:
Gone. More to go.
(02/08/09) 12

Is Snake Hill still fun? (02/05/09) 6

Where's Girardeau George on Groundhog Day? (02/02/09) 2

"Stuck on Broadway"
Breakfast Show crew assists ice-locked anchor
(01/30/09) 3

Mississippi Queen brought Hollywood stars to Cape (01/22/09) 1

Mike Shain: One of Us (01/19/09) 1

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.

Hot topics
Mystery photos solved 5/16/2012
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Barn painters of Campus High
(0 ~ 3:18 PM, May 16)

Wille's Bakery
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Garland D. Fronabarger, cub reporter
(1 ~ 7:48 AM, May 11)

Walther's Furniture
(2 ~ 6:09 AM, May 9)