Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing 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.

Broadway 700 block in 1929

Posted Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 1:10 AM

This photograph was taken in 1929 by an unknown photographer. It shows the 700 block of Broadway in Cape Girardeau with Bartels Mercantile Co. on the right, at the corner of Ellis Street.

Note the streetcar tracks and the distinctive street lights.

Other business buildings with signs visible include the Conservation Store, Hartner's Drugs and Luncheonette, Hupmobile, Piggly Wiggly and Model Grocery.

Previous blog:

Bartels Mercantile Co. burns in 1937

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