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.

Floodwall openings 1959

Posted Wednesday, October 1, 2014, at 12:00 AM

July 14, 1959 Southeast Missourian

Site of the two openings in the Main Street floodwall

Broadway, above, and Themis Street, below, are shown here in a riverside view. Each of the openings will be identical in size, 18 feet wide. But the height at Themis will be 17 feet 7 9/16ths inches and at Broadway, 15 feet 6 1/8th inches. Neither opening shown here is completed. Steel is in place for the remaining wall section at Themis and the steel for the foundation of the one at Broadway is ready. It is expected the concrete work will be completed in about a month. Steel gates with rubber seals at bottom and sides, will hang from the openings, ready to swing shut to close off Main Street in event of high water.

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