Pictures of the Past #100
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Today's Pictures of the Past gallery marks the 100th edition of this online feature. In the last 100 weeks, we've brought you a variety of images taken by longtime Missourian photographer G.D. Fronabarger. Before that, we featured 52 weeks of Mystery Photo Galleries. In all, the two gallery series have brought readers 1,118 Fronabarger photographs. These galleries will remain on our online History Page. We hope you'll return here next week on a new day as we initiate a new feature: Captured on Film. These galleries, which will run each Thursday, will consist of pictures taken by a variety of Missourian photographers before the age of digital cameras.
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Could this have been kitchen duty at a National Guard encampment?
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G.D. Fronabarger didn't often take night shots, but he arranged the members of the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band on the Common Pleas Courthouse steps for this twilight picture. It was probably taken in 1956.
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These National Guard soldiers may have been preparing to board a train for their annual two-week encampment.
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Published Nov. 5, 1958. This is Mrs. Ed (Bess) Esicar with a recipe for mincemeat pie. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
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These students of Cape Catholic High School are having a tug of war at Capaha Park in this picture taken by G.D. Fronabarger. The date is unknown but may have been in the late 1950s. Cape Girardeau Catholic High School opened in 1954. The name of the school was changed to Notre Dame High School in 1960.
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A ceremony the evening of Oct. 17, 1945, closed out the Navy V-12 program at the Teachers College during World War II. Here, the unit's commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. J. Hartt Walsh, presented a "certificate of commendation" to the college president, Dr. W.W. Parker.
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This gathering at the original Houck Field House was the closing ceremony for the Navy V-12 program at the Teachers College during World War II. The photo was taken Oct. 17, 1945.
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Dec. 10, 1955 Southeast Missourian
Kiddies in the Trinity Lutheran parochial kindergarten are happy with their free play project, and here they are busy with a sand table, blackboard work, block building, drawing and have a story hour thrown in for good measure. Mrs. Edward Bender is the teacher. From the left, kneeling on the floor and seated at the foreground table, are John Borchelt, Roger Beaudean, Gary Call, Donald Loos, Diana Miller, Linda Wallis, Nancy Wallis and Caroline Pabor. At the table at the left and table at the right are Brad Moore, Elizabeth Campbell, Gene Feuerhahn, Molly Lou Ford, Mark Thilenius, Charlotte Blattner, Marilyn Popp, Benny Teague, David Bacon, Dale Seibel and Lonnie Brockmire, and standing behind table at right are Tommy Ludwig, Carol Schrader, Gordon Huckstep. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)