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.

SEMO District Fair parking 1950s

Posted Monday, September 14, 2015, at 12:00 AM

Arena Park is filled with automobiles for the SEMO District Fair in the late 1950s. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)

Previous blogs:

Harness racing at SEMO Fair

Triple Ferris Wheels at SEMO Fair

SEMO Fair parking circa 1940

Air marker, SEMO Fair

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Here's what it looked like in 1964 (the parking lot was muddy and the rides were in black and white).

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/1964-semo-fair-expose/

Fifty years later, in 2014, the fair board could afford color.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/2014-semo-district-fair/

(This story has a bunch of links to other fair posts.)

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 1:43 AM

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