January 6, 2015

Pictures of the Past #93

G.D. Fronabarger left the Missourian boxes and boxes of negatives. What he didn't leave were IDs for them. Pictures of the Past features some of Frony's images we've partially identified. We're hoping you can help fill in the blanks. Contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com, if you recognize a place or a face. Mystery Galleries may still be viewed on our History Page, http://www.semissourian.com/history/

March 24, 1954 Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau honored its state basketball champions Tuesday night at Memorial Hall. Grouped around the trophies won this year are team members, coaches and those who spoke at the dinner affair. The trophies, from the right, are The Missourian’s most valuable player award given Paul Stehr, the regional trophy won at Poplar Bluff, the city championship trophy presented by Farmers & Merchants Bank, the state championship trophy and the first place trophy won at the Poplar Bluff invitational tournament. In the photograph, from left, are: Louis Meisenheimer, State College Basketball Coach Ralph Pink, Jack Boswell, Jim Hency, Bob Hunt, Wood McComb, Paul Stehr, C.W. Suedekum, Don Koch, Carr Lane O’Connell, Dean Meinz, Assistant Coach Weldon Hager, Manager Charles Herbst, Coach Lou Muegge, Supt. L.J. Schultz, State College Football Coach Kenny Knox, Rev. Robert C. Holliday and Maurice T. Dunklin. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive) Charlie Herbst recognized the shorter youngster standing at the right end of the table: "That is my dad (Charles Herbst). He would have been a freshman at Cape Central and was the manager of the basketball team."

A boy helped his mom clean the paddles from an old-fashioned ice cream freezer. Gladys Smith and Sharon Poole identified the woman in this photo as Mrs. Emma Bennett of Scott City. The boy is her son, Robert Bennett.

Maier's Tire and Service Station, operated by William G. Maier, was located at 144 S. Sprigg St.

Work was progressing quickly on the new National Food Store, when this photo was taken in June 1958. The grocery store was at the northwest corner of Sprigg and William streets.

Can anyone provide us with information about Werner and Sons Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning?

The Union Bus Depot was at 16 N. Frederick St. A campaign poster in the window for Robert Hemperley for state representative dates this picture to the early 1960s. The photo was published Aug. 23, 1960. It shows Mrs. Lois Travis and her son, Earl, 8. They were enroute to St. Louis on a St. Louis-Cape bus, and then would change to a Continental Trailways bus to Chicago for the boy's hospital examination. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)

This winter scene in Cape Girardeau was taken by G.D. Fronabarger and published in the Southeast Missourian on Jan. 26, 1961. The view of a road grader blading Perry Avenue is looking north from near Broadway. Capaha Park is on the right. The Rose Display Garden with its fence is in the upper right corner.

Sept. 29, 1956 Southeast Missourian. The dawn of school careers. These kindergarten youngsters of Trinity Lutheran School are starting out on the long education trip, and under their teacher, Mrs. Floyd Petzoldt, are occupied with various projects to capture their interest. Children in the picture, at rear left, Libby Krueger and Roxanne Huckstep. Left foreground, table, Martha Hahs, Lynn Suedekum, Becky Bender and Alan Haman. At table, rear right, Mark Boardman, Billy Dunham, Mary McElreath and Jennifer Strom. Table right foreground, Tom Fiehler, Gary Birk, Connie Hente and Mark Haas. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)

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G.D. Fronabarger left the Missourian boxes and boxes of negatives. What he didn't leave were IDs for them. Pictures of the Past features some of Frony's images we've partially identified. We're hoping you can help fill in the blanks. Contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com, if you recognize a place or a face. Mystery Galleries may still be viewed on our History Page, http://www.semissourian.com/history/

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