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 construction at shoe factory

Posted Friday, December 19, 2014, at 12:59 AM

Construction of the Mississippi River floodwall is seen near the shoe factory in the fall of 1963. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)

Previous blogs:

International Shoe Co. aerial

Floodwall construction 1957

Floodwall openings 1959

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Here is an aerial taken just a couple of years later, after the floodwall had been completed.

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-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, Dec 19, 2014, at 1:15 AM

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