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.

Independence Street traffic

Posted Friday, May 24, 2013, at 12:00 AM

Traffic moves past the Cape Girardeau Police and Fire Station, Independence and Frederick streets, and the Missouri Pacific Railroad freight station in this undated photo by G.D. Fronabarger.

Previous blogs:

Police Court and fleet

Cape Girardeau Northern depot

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Independence was a little busier in 1967:

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/independence-traffic-jam/

We actually had a traffic jam.

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, May 24, 2013, at 12:50 AM
That old white building to the right always creeped me out.

-- Posted by Vwwvwv on Fri, May 24, 2013, at 5:45 AM
The old white building originally was one of the Houck railroad stations, before Missouri Pacific bought the line.

-- Posted by semowasp on Sat, May 25, 2013, at 5:31 AM

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