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.

Midtown Shopping Area

Posted Friday, December 26, 2014, at 12:00 AM

The Midtown Shopping Area was undergoing renovation in March, 1961, including the remodeling of the Cape Cut Rate Drug Store on Good Hope. The building was sandblasted and tuck pointed to give it a more modern look. Similar work was going on at the Good Hope New and Used Furniture Store down the street, to the left in the picture. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)

September 25, 1968 Southeast Missourian advertisement:

Among the merchants advertising in the Good Hope Midtown Shopping Area section were: Schade's Men's Wear, Unnerstall's Rexall Drug Store, Gladish-Walker Furniture Co., Barbecue Shoppe;

Suedekum Hardware Co., Mr. G's Furniture and Appliance, Al's Midtown Lounge, Sunny Hill Pet Shop, Cape Cut Rate, Farmers & Merchants Bank;

Hirsch's Thriftway, Sunshine Cleaners, Model Barber Shop, Simpson Buick-Kadett, National Food Store, Goodyear Service Store, Simmon's 66 and Riverside Lumber & Supply Co.

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That area, also known as Haarig, looks a lot different today. It's a shadow of its former busy self.

The building that was the Cape Cut Rate is on the endangered list.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-cut-rate-endangered/

Farmers and Merchants Bank, which LOOKED like a bank, was knocked down and replaced by the Salvation Army.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/farmers-and-merchants-bank/

and

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-salvation-army/

Meyer / Suedekum Hardware is one of the few businesses still thriving in the area.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/meyer-suedekum-hardware/

Unnerstall's Drug Store's name is still on the door pull on Good Hope, but the drug store is long gone.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-downtown/main-street-and-doors/

The building Gladish-Walker Furniture Store was in collapsed this summer.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/a-hole-in-haarig/

Doris' Antiques is also gone.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/doris-antiques-closing-doors/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, Dec 26, 2014, at 1:22 AM
Haha...Cape Girardeau had Democrats and independents back then?

-- Posted by SEMO2STL on Fri, Dec 26, 2014, at 7:45 PM

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