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Fred Lynch
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.
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The Beacon Light of Simpson

Posted Monday, February 10, 2014, at 12:00 AM

The Beacon Light of Simpson

..."Keeps 'em rolling along"

That was the headline on a full-page ad in the Feb. 27, 1960 Achievement Edition of the Southeast Missourian for Simpson Oil Co.

This picture shows Simpson's Colonial Service Station on Highway 61 at Broadway which opened that year with larger facilities and 24-hour service.

The company also operated the Colonial Tavern next to the service station. Read about it in this previous blog:

Colonial Tavern

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