Captured on Film #4

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Published Jan. 22, 1987. Charles Clippard, principal of Hawthorn Elementary School, gave Jennifer Kafka her birthday paddling while Ragan Ward, Jennifer's witness, looked on. Students at Hawthorn School had been coming into the office for a birthday paddling and then some candy for 20 years. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive photo)
Published March 20, 1990. Scott Wright, 17, of Jackson prepared to participate in his first body-building competition -- the 1990 Ozark Body Building Championships -- which came to Cape Girardeau in March 1990. Here, Wright practiced one of his poses at Universal Physique. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)
Published Nov. 20, 1969. Donald D. Pemberton, right, received the "Friends of Agriculture" award from A.C. Brase at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Area Appreciation Night. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)
August 31, 1964 Southeast Missourian A Cape Girardeau police officer, Patrolman James Crites, was injured this morning when the police car in which he was a passenger collided with another car at the intersection of Broadway and Highway 61. Surveying the damage are Police Chief Irvin E. Beard (behind red light), Warren Strack, city fire inspector, Lt. Glen W. Volkerding of the Police Department and Burette O. Beal of Glen Allen, who was driving the other car. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Jan. 29, 1990. Two-year-old Adam Halter and his mother, Terri, built Adam's first snowman outside their home in Jackson. Three to four inches of snow fell overnight in Jackson during a snowstorm that covered a 50-mile strip in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois. Cape Girardeau, on the southern fringe of the snowstorm, only received a dusting. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)
Published Feb. 28, 1990. Lee McClellon, left, and Larry Campbell of Warfield Building Wrecking had a scenic view of Cape Girardeau while using a jackhammer atop the five-story section of Broadway Park Apartments at 115 N. Fountain St. The section was added to the historic Idan-Ha Hotel about 1922. The apartments were gutted by fire in July 1989. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive photo)
Published Thursday, March 13, 1958. Cars parked over night on Broadway were all but buried in snow, like these west of Fountain along the street. Most of them belonged to guests at downtown hotels. The view was east toward Fountain Street. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive photo)