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.

Interstate 55 construction

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2014, at 12:00 AM

Work is underway on Interstate 55 in this undated photo by G.D. Fronabarger. The first concrete was poured in Cape Girardeau County in 1962.

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First concrete poured Interstate 55

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Here's an aerial photo of the Scott City interchange being built at about the same time.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/scott-city-i-55-interchange-under-con...

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Wed, Aug 27, 2014, at 1:05 AM

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