March 16, 2017

Captured on Film #107

Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Published March 22, 1992. Clayton Hahs lip-synced the song "My Girl" for students taking Spanish at L.J. Schultz Middle School during a modern Spanish presentation of "Snow White." Students of Coralie Robertson's Spanish IV class at Central High School presented the play. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published March 12, 1992. Cape Girardeau Lions Club member Robert Herbst ladles pancake batter onto the griddle during the annual Lions Club Pancake Day at the A.C. Brase Arena Building. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published March 4 1992. Danny Frazier of Kerasotes Theatres added the final touch to the front of the Broadway Theatre, which the firm planned to reopen. The theater stopped showing movies there in March 1984. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published April 24, 1992. Wolfgang Bruno, elephant trainer for the Kelly-Miller Brothers Three-Ring Circus, gave one of his three elephants a drink prior to one of the two circus performances at Arena Park. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Feb. 13, 1980. Extended subfreezing temperatures made the Capaha Park Lagoon safe for skating for the first time that winter. At the lagoon, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Niswonger, Route 2, warmed up by the bonfire as Susan Younghouse skated past. The fire was the signal that skating was safe on the lagoon. The ice measured five inches. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published March 17, 1992. A $1 million capital campaign was underway for a new Salvation Army headquarters to be built in a parking area next to the the present Army building at Good Hope and South Sprigg streets. From left were Fred R. "Rock" Wilferth, Salvation Army Capt. Elmer Trapp, Judy Wilferth and Bob Neff. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published April 15, 1992. Cape Girardeau City Clerk Julie Dale gave the oath of office to newly elected city councilmen, from left, Al Spradling III, Melvin Kasten and Melvin Gateley. The new councilmen took the seats of Hugh White and David Barklage. Spradling was re-elected. (Southeast Missourian archive)

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Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

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