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.

Cape Girardeau Firefighters 1975

Posted Wednesday, July 1, 2015, at 12:00 AM

Members of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department pose for a photo outside Fire Station No. 1 at Independence and Frederick streets, circa 1975.

The building is now the Cape River Heritage Museum.

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Those were the good old days, we just didn't know it. Thanks to all the brave men then and now. God Bless. Oops can I say that?

-- Posted by Bussy on Wed, Jul 1, 2015, at 6:03 PM

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