April 5, 2018

Captured on Film #162

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.

A camel greets children aboard a school bus in February, 1976 at the 5-H Ranch north of Cape Girardeau. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published April 5, 1993. Garrett McLaughlin, 1, is not sure what to think of the Easter Bunny Sunday afternoon at West Park Mall. Garrett's brother and sister, Kara and Joey, ages 4 and 3, were a little more relaxed for the photography they had taken with the bunny. (Larry Thompson ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published April 13, 1993. Evelyn Boardman shows the quilt that will be on display at different locations along the 131-mile Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive set for April 24-25. Chances for the quilt are being sold for $1. it will be on display today through Thursday at Madder Rose Ltd., 31 N. Main St. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published April 26, 1993. Edison Shrum of Scott City shows a few of his restored pieces of New York pottery. They were made in the small town of New York, which no longer exists, at a site about three miles southeast of Scott City. Shrum will give a program about the pottery tonight at 7 at a meeting of the Scott City Historical Preservation Commission at the Scott City Hall. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published April 6, 1993. Vi Keys' eighth annual hat auction will be held at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. Last year $1,000 was raised to benefit the eastern Missouri chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. From left are Rosie Backfisch, Keys, Amanda Wissman and Jodi Montgomery. (Don Shrubshell ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published April 4, 1993. Bill C. Zellmer, owner and manager of Cool Beans, The Coffee Cafe, is shown here. The new gourmet coffee shop will open in West Park Mall this week. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published March 14, 1960. Anglers who have stamina enough to brave this cold weather may get results like this pair, Bill Beard, left, and Wayne Freeman of Cape Girardeau, who found the largemouth bass hitting in Castor River Sunday despite near freezing cold and water made colder by melting snow. The pair got these bass, running from 1 1/2 to 3 pounds, on deep-running bomber lures. They took their success to indicate this is going to be a good year for anglers. (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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