Assisted by a Cape Girardeau police officer, an unidentified truck driver maneuvers a 130-foot long Douglas fir radio antenna pole down Morgan Oak Street, having just crossed the Cape Girardeau traffic bridge on Thursday, June 21, 1956. The antenna pole, the second one to pass through Cape Girardeau, came from Oregon and was to be installed at Coker Knob, north of Cape Girardeau, for use by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “in communications in connection with flood control work.”
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G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive
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