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.

Leaf collection in Cape Girardeau

Posted Friday, November 5, 2010, at 7:30 AM

This picture by G.D. Fronabarger shows Cape Girardeau street department workers collecting leaves on a city street. It was published in the Nov. 8, 1960 edition of the Southeast Missourian. According to the caption, a mechanical sweeper deposits a load of leaves curbside. Then the leaves are picked up by a high lift and loaded onto a truck, which takes the leaves to a dumping ground. One such spot was at North Sprigg and Washington Avenue.

In 2012, Cape Girardeau converted to an automated leaf collection program. Here is a picture of the truck.

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Looks like the 300 block of North Pacific looking North.

-- Posted by Yankee Station on Fri, Nov 5, 2010, at 11:24 AM
I have never seen equipment like that.

-- Posted by mo_ky_fellow on Sun, Nov 7, 2010, at 8:08 AM
South Sprig about 1953 2pm?

-- Posted by Old John on Mon, Nov 8, 2010, at 10:54 AM

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