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.

St. Paul Lutheran Church demolition

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2014, at 12:00 AM

G.D. Fronabarger took these pictures of the demolition of the old St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. It appears that he had enough time to be "Two-shot Frony." The dust cloud seems to indicate a pause between the second and third photos. The third photo was published in the Southeast Missourian on May 17, 1961 with this caption:

Making way for a new church structure, workmen today felled the 53-year-old steeple of the old St. Paul Lutheran Church at Jackson. The 70-foot structure toppled under the stress of steel cables attached to a tractor and truck. Contract has been let to Walter Brockmiller of Farmington to erect the new $360,000 church edifice to replace the older one. The main part of the old building was razed a few days ago.

A new church was built on the site. The building was dedicated Dec. 2, 1962. The last photo shows it as published Feb 23, 1963 in the Achievement Edition.

St. Paul Lutheran Church demolition

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