August 16, 2018

Captured on Film #181

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 Aug. 4, 1978. It may be the old-fashioned way, but "it's fun," members of the Hanover Lutheran Church said of their peach butter cooking, Wednesday. The all-day affair included a fellowship lunch in the outdoor church park where the open copper kettles were kept filled with ripe peaches simmering. The peach butter will be sold at the church's Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 7. Members of the peach butter cooking committee were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kelpe and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Meyer. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 18, 1983. Cathy Rose, a lifeguard at Capaha Park Pool, scans the pool carefully. The scorching summer temperatures have sent crowds to this pool and the Central High pool recently. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Aug. 26, 1988. Cape Girardeau Central coach Gary Lynch offers a final analysis of the Tigers' evening practice session Thursday. Central returns to Houck Stadium next Friday to take on Malden. (Joel House ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 21, 1993. Cleo Johns, manager of Johns' Metal-Iron and Salvage Co., looks over a pile of scrap iron. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 15, 1993. A privately financed project will provide for five lanes of traffic on Route K near the Walmart Supercenter in Cape Girardeau. This view toward the east shows three entrances to the Walmart store. A traffic signal will be installed at the westernmost entrance to the store. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 9, 1993. Cape Girardeau County Clerk Rodney Miller, right, directs election judges Audrey Golden, left, and Rita Glueck, who brought Ward 13 ballots to the A.C. Brase Arena Building Tuesday night following a ballot measure to decide the fate of riverboat gambling for Cape Girardeau. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Feb. 8, 1962. Joan Lynn Baker, left, of Cape Girardeau receives a sympathetic reaction from Vickie Sue Bailey, right, during a dental check at Alma Schrader School. Dr. Richard Brown, president of the District Dental Study Club, is making the examination, while Steve Paul Berkbigler is watching his technique carefully. Examinations of all 6-year-old first graders were carried out at all elementary schools and coincided with National Children's Dental Health Week. (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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