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.

House moving, no fooling

Posted Monday, April 1, 2013, at 12:00 AM

April 29, 1987 Southeast Missourian

Motorists Tuesday had an unusual roadway companion as a house traveled the streets of Cape Girardeau. The home was being moved from the 1400 block of North Kinshighway to North Main Street by Johnson Moving Company of Sikeston. Here the house with its police escort travels down Bertling Street. Police said when workers weren't clearing trees from the path, the house could travel up to 10 mph. The entire trip took about two and a half hours. Another house is expected to be moved along the same route next week. (Missourian archive photo by Mark Sterkel)

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Moving houses in Cape happened quite a bit in the old days. Maybe it was cheaper to move them than to build them new.

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-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Mon, Apr 1, 2013, at 12:29 AM

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