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.

Downtown Main Street low aerials

Posted Monday, May 25, 2015, at 12:00 AM

A couple of pedestrians are seen looking up at the photographer snapping pictures from a helicopter above the downtown businesses on Main Street in 1976.

Visible signs include, west side: Woolworth's, J.C. Penney Co., Oglander's, Schiff’s Shoes, Sherman’s, PN Hirsch’s, Zickfield’s Jeweler, Personal Finance Loans; east side: Fab-N-Trim, Montgomery Ward, Osco Drugs, OTASCO, Ross Young’s, Lee Optical.

In this previous blog, downtown Main Street is seen at night:

Main Street White Way installed in 1972

Below, in this photo looking south, the Buckner-Ragsdale Co. is on the east side, left; other visible signs include King Optical, Town Pump; west side, right: Hale’s Jewelry, Bib & Tucker, Osterloh’s Books, Libson Shop, Brown’s Shoes, Ossick’s Shoes.

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Here are a couple of aerials. One was taken in the mid-1960s, and the other in 2011.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-downtown/downtown-from-the-air/

Here's an aerial panorama of downtown Cape in 2010 created from six photos.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-downtown/downtown-cape-panorama/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Mon, May 25, 2015, at 1:49 AM

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