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.

A cool VW 'bug'

Posted Friday, June 19, 2015, at 12:00 AM

June 22, 1975 Southeast Missourian

One way to beat the heat

You can lick, sip or munch a snowcone--one way to beat the sizzling sun that greeted the arrival of summer Saturday. Todd Jones found his business good along Capaha Park as Cape Girardeans flocked to the park for baseball, swimming and bicentennial activities. His customer is Miss LaReesa Smith. (Fred Lynch photo)

Previous blogs with Volkswagen photos:

Volkswagen - Allgood Motor Co.

Car skids, overturns on Perryville Road

Freak accident - smashed 'bug'

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Brad Brune was bugging me to do something on my blog about VW dealers in Cape. I came up fairly empty, but I DID find about three dozen photos with VWs in them. It was sort of a "Where's Waldo?" of Volkswagens.

Most of them were in Ohio, but there are a few Cape images or with Cape people in the pictures.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/ohio/a-volkswagen-wheres-waldo/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, Jun 19, 2015, at 2:07 AM
I believe my late grandfather worked for the VW dealership in Cape. When my grandparents moved to Illinois, Grandpa went to work for Pete Epps in Carbondale.

-- Posted by epriddy on Sun, Jun 21, 2015, at 6:59 PM
I wish a VW dealership would come to Cape!;)

-- Posted by dfgt4554 on Fri, Jul 3, 2015, at 10:03 AM

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