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.

Erlbacher Foundry

Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2013, at 12:00 AM

Balthaser "Bill" Erlbacher, a native of New Wells, established a foundry and machine shop on North Main Street in about 1906, cutting the massive beams for the building himself out of sycamore. The foundry was acquired in 1936, and after modernization, was reopened by a St. Louis firm. The building was torn down in 1966 to make way for the Missouri Employment Security Office. (Photo made circa 1936, probably by G.D. Fronabarger)

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Here are photos of the foundry being torn down in 1966.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/razing-erlbacher-foundry/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Wed, Dec 4, 2013, at 7:15 AM

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