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.

Missourian paperboys 1941

Posted Monday, September 10, 2012, at 12:00 AM

G.D. Fronabarger took this picture in 1941 outside the Southeast Missourian building of newspaper carriers picking up their newspapers.

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I still believe that being a youth newspaper carrier was the best first job you could ever have growing up. I learned so much from that experience many of which I still use today. Great Picture.

-- Posted by Mark Kneer on Tue, Sep 11, 2012, at 3:17 PM
In the late 1950s i used to help my cousin, John Barnard deliver Sunday papers. We had to get up at the crack of dawn to attend Sunday mass before starting the route. In addition to the regular subscribers, we sold papers along the way. We walked from the Missourian building west on Broadway to Perryville Rd then North to the end of Perryville rd pushing a wooden cart shouting, "Sunday papers, Post and Globe." It was a hike!

-- Posted by Anola Gill Stowick on Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 12:31 AM

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