Fred Lynch shows the Feb. 27, 1979 edition of the Southeast Missourian with its coverage of the Blizzard of 1979. His photographs show a National Guard helicopter crew rescuing Kathy Webb and her 3-month-old daughter, Alyssa, from their rural Perryville, Missouri home that had no power or heat...

Aug. 17, 1979 Southeast Missourian Mable Grissom has been in the kitchen a lot of years, and on Thursday she observed her 21st anniversary in the restaurant business in Chaffee, Missouri. Here, she chats with customers, from left, Dora Rister, Bernice Montgomery and Jim Stubbs, all of Chaffee. At Mable's Cafe, Grissom says, "the gift of gab goes a long way with home cooking." (Fred Lynch photo)...

Members of the Willow Grove Rockets Skate Club of Chaffee, Missouri perform one of their routines on Broadway during the SEMO State University Homecoming Parade on Nov. 3, 1979. Below, Eric Foster of the club performs his Russian Tap Dance on a board atop the club's emblem during the parade. See story and more photos below. (Phil Nash photos)...

Oct. 19, 1979 Southeast Missourian Pouring of concrete in the pool under construction at Central High School got under way this week, thanks to ideal October construction weather. Midwest Pool Inc., and Jackson Excavating Co., prime contractors, are hoping for completion no later than December. Cost of the project is $1.1 million. The Cape Girardeau School District is paying $235,000 and the city the remainder. (Phil Nash photo)...

Oct. 25, 1979 Southeast Missourian ABOVE: Main street has changed, but the memories for Louis Hecht, founder of Hecht's Store here in 1917, are still vivid. Here, R.E.L. Lamkin Jr., left, (whose father, the late R.E.L. Lamkin, was a longtime friend of Mr. ...

Aug. 15, 1979 Southeast Missourian Viewed as a major breakthrough for industrial development between Scott City and Cape Girardeau, Regional Port Authority chairman C.W. "Woody" Rushing signs a lease for 200 acres of land from Westlake Quarry and Materials. ...

April 23, 1979 Southeast Missourian ABOVE: One of the many fixtures at St. Vincent's Seminary that draws its students forth is the shrine to the Virgin Mary. Praying at the shrine are Paul Payne of Joplin, Missouri and Richard Wehrmeyer of Metropolis, Illinois. ...

Nov. 13, 1978 Southeast Missourian ABOVE: Three members of the Cape Girardeau City Council seem to be enjoying the remarks of Mayor Paul W. Stehr just before the ribbon is cut at the new City Hall. The councilmen, from left, are Oliver A. Hope, Howard C. ...

Sept. 26, 1988 Southeast Missourian Hank Williams Jr. performed before a crowd of 5,550 Sunday night at the Show Me Center. (Mark Sterkel photo) Hank Williams Jr. 'electrifies' crowd Concert review by Debby Jo King...

April 16, 1979 Southeast Missourian ABOVE: Guardrails along part of flooded North Main street are the only clue to where the street is located as the Mississippi River turns part of Cape Girardeau into an unwanted lake. The river crested at 44.1 feet on April 17, 1979. It was the second-highest level in Cape Girardeau history. Flood stage is 32 feet. (See story below.) BELOW: The area is seen recently. (Fred Lynch photos)...

July 18, 1983 Southeast Missourian KFVS-TV veteran weatherman Don McNeely chats with Mrs. Paul Meyr of Jackson during an open house celebrating McNeely's 40 years in broadcasting. In the background is his daughter, Donna. Area residents stood in line in the 300 block of Broadway Sunday afternoon, waiting to tour the KFVS Television building. About 2,500 people turned out. (Fred Lynch photos)...

Oct. 1, 1978 Southeast Missourian ABOVE: The "Celebration of the Overpass" was contagious as balloons streamed away toward Scott City at the Illmo foot of the overpass, where a parade led by the Illmo-Scott City High School marching band crossed the overpass after the ribbon-cutting ceremony. ...

Dec. 11, 1983 Southeast Missourian Mary Mosebach, like her co-workers, carries out her morning routine of cleaning chores at Fire Station 1. As the first female firefighter hired by Cape Girardeau, her first year on the job has taught her there is a lot more involved in fighting fires than she thought. After a call, all the equipment has to be cleaned and inspected immediately for the next call that could come anytime. (Pat Swann photo)...

Aug. 22, 1988 Southeast Missourian For the first time in over 40 years, steam railroad passenger service returned briefly to Oran Sunday, when the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company's Railfan Weekend Extra Number Five passenger train pulled into the former Missouri Pacific railroad depot in Oran. Iron Mountain Railroad officials termed the event, which attracted more than 110 railfans and their families, very successful. (David Hente photo)...

July 16, 1978 Southeast Missourian Those little red tickets motorists often find on their windshields after parking meters expire are a sizable source of income for the city. Here, Dennis Penrod of the Cape Girardeau Police Department sorts through piles of tickets which haven't been paid. It's his job to process the tickets. (Fred Lynch photo)...

The gazebo at Ivers Square was known as a bandstand when this undated photo was taken at Common Pleas Courthouse Park in Cape Girardeau. Below is a recent photograph taken during a Tunes at Twilight event. Here is some information from a blog by Sharon Sanders, From the Morgue:...

G.D. Fronabarger took this aerial photograph of Fornfelt, the present Scott City, with the railroad roundhouse in 1939. Scott City was formed March 7, 1960 from the towns of Ancell and Fornfelt. The railroad yards were shared by Fornfelt and Illmo. In 1980, Illmo was incorporated into Scott City...

June 12, 1988 Southeast Missourian John Wescoat of Cape Girardeau reflects on the efforts undertaken to acquire the land for Trail of Tears State Park. He was also active in developing other parks in the area. (Joel House photo)...

Construction of the first two of four high-rise dormitories begins next to the Greek housing complex, and southeast of the Magill Hall of Science, at Southeast Missouri State College in 1965. The two dormitories were opened to students in the summer of 1967. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)...

The photo above shows the new White Way lighting system that was installed in 1972 as a project of the Cape Girardeau Metro Association on Main Street in downtown Cape Girardeau. The photo below shows the street in 2018. A three-day celebration kicked off the White Way lights. Read about it in this previous blog:...