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.

Horstman Theatre in Chaffee

Posted Friday, December 10, 2010, at 7:30 AM

A Christmas parade proceeds past the Horstman Theatre in Chaffee, Mo. on Dec. 10, 1955 in this photo by G.D. Fronabarger.

The movie house was showing "The Looters" starring Rory Calhoun.

Formerly the Chaffee Pullman Theater, it was purchased by Charles Horstman in 1921 and renamed the Horstman Theatre in 1931. It closed in the early 1960s.

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Nov. 2, 1938 Southeast Missourian

Sen. Truman Defends New Deal

Chaffee--Reviewing the record of the national administration and assailing "crackpot schemes" of assisting the aged, Sen. Harry S. Truman of Independence spoke at a Democratic rally here Tuesday night. The building [Horstman Theatre], seating 850, was completely filled and 300 others were unable to get in.

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Rory Calhoun, whose movie was headlined on the Horstman, stopped by The Missourian about 10 years later.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/rory-calhoun-visits-missourian/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, Dec 10, 2010, at 8:00 AM
Fred I went to many a movies there when I growing up in Chaffee. Admission a dime, soda a dime and popcorn a nichel.

-- Posted by retired1 on Fri, Dec 10, 2010, at 11:55 AM

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