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.

First National Bank moves

Posted Monday, April 16, 2012, at 12:00 AM

April 16, 1956 Southeast Missourian

Guarding the cash. Saturday afternoon the formal transfer of business from its old to new quarters was made by First National Bank, and this shows the last of the boxes of money being taken into the new building. From the left are Sgt. Glenn Volkerding, Patrolmen Donald Roberts and Ellis Thurm, Richard Ryan, bank teller; Joseph Haas, assistant cashier; and Patrolman Clyde Walton of the police. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)

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Given the way First National officers arranged loans in the old days, the pictured lady was probably carrying the contents of the safe.

-- Posted by semowasp on Mon, Apr 16, 2012, at 6:16 AM
There is no lady in the picture.

-- Posted by slim_pickens on Tue, Apr 17, 2012, at 10:32 AM

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