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.

Capaha Park aerial early 1960s

Posted Friday, October 22, 2010, at 7:30 AM

G.D. Fronabarger took lots of aerial photographs over the Cape Girardeau area. This one is looking east over Capaha Park.

Perry Avenue is at the bottom with Southeast Missouri Hospital in the lower right corner. Notice the first addition to the building on the south side. Broadway runs up the right side. Southeast Missouri State College is at the top.

Close up sections of this photograph are together here.

The former oval swimming pool can be seen after it was converted to a formal garden.

Capaha Lagoon was dredged in 1962.

The new swimming pool opened in 1957.

The double slide was still there at Normal and West End Boulevard.

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My aerials of the park must have been shot after Frony's. The lagoon is full of water.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/capaha-park-se-hospital-franklin-scho...

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, Oct 22, 2010, at 10:13 AM
Sure do enjoy these aerials of the Capaha Park area, they bring back many memories. Memories of the Rigdon property in particular at Louisiana and Broadway. The house is long gone, the area is now a parking lot for the hospital. But it lives on in memory. My grandfather was Joseph Rigdon, of Ridgon Laundry. Thanks again for the pictures.

-- Posted by catmandue on Sat, Oct 30, 2010, at 8:08 PM
THE LAGOON IS FULL OF WATER IN THESE PICTURES! IT IS ~ FROZE OVER ~ EXECPT FOR A SPOT NEAR THE BIGGER ISLAND!

-- Posted by Solelicious on Mon, Nov 1, 2010, at 6:03 PM

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