May 3, 2018

Captured on Film #166

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 May 23, 1993. Local Junior Girl Scouts gathered Saturday at the gazebo in Courthouse Park for a program about women's roles in the history of Cape Girardeau. Marge Thompson, left, talks about the Women's Relief Corps, which was responsible for the fountain at the courthouse. With her is Martha Bender of the Bicentennial Commission. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published May 9, 1993. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Randy Holdman, left, a native of Bonne Terre, Missouri, was named as the new manager of the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport. Holdman will take over operation and marketing of the airport on June 1. On hand to greet Holdman when he arrived for a visit on Friday was the newly elected chairman of the Airport Board, William H. Walker, right, and other members of the board. (David Hente ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published May 6, 1993. Zonta Club representative Kristy Mehner, right, presents 24 more bears to Cape Girardeau Police Chief Howard Boyd Jr. and Bettie Knoll, president of CASA, court appointed special advocates. The bears will be given to abused and neglected children. (Don Shrubshell ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published May 6, 1993. Grant Lund examines a portrait of himself that will be displayed with other art work of The Drawing Group. The group is comprised of local artists whose works will be on display at the University Center Program Lounge. The water color portrait is one of 37 works that will be displayed. (Don Shrubshell ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published May 2, 1993. Nip Kelley Trucking & Equipment Co. employees found a piece of Cape Girardeau's history Friday while removing a wall of the 74-year-old Orpheum Theater at 615 Good Hope. A colored sign painted on an adjacent building just east of the theater advertising Chero-Cola soft drink. The sign has been hidden by a wall of the theater. The theater and the building east of it are being demolished after a fire damaged the building in December 1991. (Don Shrubshell ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published May 20, 1993. Derek Hudson, left, former president of Student Government at Southeast Missouri State University, and Southeast President Kala Stroup take a turn at bashing a wall to ceremonially mark the start of renovation at the Towers West dormitory on campus. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 26, 1946. Youngsters gather in the Koch suburb playground on Bloomfield street to begin a ball game. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ 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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