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.

Early aerial: Water Street and Broadway

Posted Friday, August 26, 2011, at 6:00 AM

This early aerial photograph by G.D. Fronabarger shows the city of Cape Girardeau with Broadway in the center looking west from the Mississippi River. Water Street is in the foreground.

To the north of Broadway is a vacant area that once was the Riverview Hotel. It was destroyed by fire in 1916. To the north are Meyer-Albert Grocer Co. and the Union Mill building.

The Buckner-Radsgale building is across from the vacant area.

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Here are some aerials of that intersection in the 1960s.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/downtown-cape-girardeau-aerial-photos...

This 2010 aerial panorama shows the whole riverfront from William to north of Broadway.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-downtown/downtown-cape-panorama/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, Aug 10, 2012, at 8:16 AM

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