Mystery photo gallery #8

This mystery photo was published in the Dec. 21, 1960 Southeast Missourian. It shows Mrs. Kenneth Burnham in front of Kroger in the Town Plaza receiving a new 1961 Volkswagen. She won a contest by figuring the actual weight of the car and groceries. Kroger opened a new store in the Town Plaza Shopping Center in Cape Girardeau on Aug. 11, 1960.

A 1955 Buick Century is pictured in front of the Travelers Cafe on Highway 61. Cape State Bank would be built on the property north of the restaurant. The hill to the west was removed for construction of the bank.

Unidentified mechanics are pictured working on a Buick. If you can provide information about this photograph, contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com

Oct. 9, 1962 Southeast Missourian. Sunny skies and peppy music was the menu at Jackson today as bands from the district converged on the county seat for the annual band festival to be climaxed after today’s parade by a public concert tonight of the massed musicians. These youngsters were among the first to arrive and tune up their instruments. From the left, Bill Hudgens, James Carter, Jane Clark, Jerry Tindall and Glenn Dirnberger of Oran High School; and Norma VanAmburg, Robert Hardy, Bob Anderson, Beverly Burns and John Carr of Woodland High School, Lutesville-Marble Hill. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)

A young saxophone player received some one-on-one instruction during this unidentified band practice. If you can provide information about this photograph, contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com

Dec. 2, 1963 Southeast Missourian. Some 2,000 persons, many of them from outside of Cape County, received polio oral vaccine Sunday at the Arena building. Here an Oran family made up of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Schlitt and their children, Jolene, 8; Donald, 5, and Kenneth,10, get their vaccine from one of the volunteer workers, Miss Marie Friant. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)

Two businessmen examined a completed hat at an unnamed hat factory. If you can provide information about this photograph, contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com

By the package in the background, we know that Central Packing Co. furnished the meat for this cookout. If you can provide information about this photograph, contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com