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.

Illinois 146 to East Cape

Posted Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at 12:00 AM

G.D. Fronabarger took this picture on Illinois 146 looking west toward East Cape Girardeau, Ill. probably in the 1950s. [Is that Frony's car parked on the side?]

The Purple Crackle Club can be seen in the distance on the left side of the highway.

The Mississippi River bridge can barely be seen on the right.

The Purple Crackle Club was started by Clyde Pearce in 1939.

Read about the Purple Crackle in the 1950s in this story by T.J. Greaney:

Cape Girardeau's 'other side'

Previous blogs:

Colony Club fire 1959

Thunderbird Club

Don McNeely's Band

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And, the Purple Crackle has become The Pony.

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-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Wed, Jun 4, 2014, at 12:31 AM

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