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 Cape WPA project 1935

Posted Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at 12:00 AM

The first all-Cape Girardeau Works Progress Administration project was the surfacing of streets in the Alta Vista residential district in the Oliver Heights Addition near the college. The work began Nov. 16, 1935, when this photo was taken by G.D. Fronabarger.

Previous blogs:

Early WPA workers 1935

WPA head sees progress at Community Center

Fort D construction 1936

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There are a lot of WPA and other depression-era alphabet soup agency projects still around today:

The old Jackson swimming pool (since torn down, but the foundation remains).

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/jacksons-1938-swimming-pool/

Lorimier School / City Hall

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/lorimier-school-cape-city-hall/

Jackson High School's football stadium

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/jackson-high-school/

The Arena Building

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/parks/radioactive-teenage-girls/

Cape sewers

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-sewer-project-1940-41/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Wed, Jul 10, 2013, at 9:45 AM

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