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.

Wimpy's Day

Posted Monday, September 21, 2015, at 12:00 AM

Freeman Lewis, center, who bought Wimpy's for the Lewis family in 1942, arrives for Wimpy's Day, standing with Rob Lewis and Kathy Lewis Fishel, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 at Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau.

More photos may be viewed in this gallery:

Wimpy's Day

Freeman Lewis talks about buying Wimpy's in 1942 in this video:

Previous blogs about Wimpy's:

Original Wimpy's: nickel burgers

Wimpy's once more

Rob Lewis produced this video of photographs and the history of Wimpy's:

Wimpy's History

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I couldn't pass up this event, but I have to admit that Fred's video beat my stuff all to pieces.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/wimpyburgers-went-flying-out/

Nice job.

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 2:42 AM

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