May 19, 2016

Captured on Film #64

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 June 13, 1991. Planning and Zoning Commissioner Harry Rediger commented on a major street plan during a Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission meeting at City Hall. Also pictured were Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman Tom Holshouser, left, and Commissioner Joe Gambill. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 16, 1991. Arthur Pilsner, left, weighed in a catfish that he caught in a fishing derby at Capaha Park Lagoon. At right was Steven Criddle. About 110 children participated in the event sponsored by the Breakfast Optimist Club and the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 17, 1991. Linda Stevens showed Champion Sunbrook Buckskin Gal, a female miniature pinscher, nicknamed Penny, during competition in the 65th annual All-Breed Dog Show sponsored by the Southeast Missouri Kennel Club. Penny won best in show at the A.C. Brase Arena. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 2, 1991. Cape Girardeau firefighters stood by an automobile which dragged a gas pump from the Fill-Up Mart, 305 N. Frederick St. Sparks from the gas pump, still wedged tightly under the rear of the car, ignited gasoline in the pump housing. The fire was directly under the car's fuel tank. Ivan Majka, a mail carrier who responded to the scene with a fire extinguisher from the post office across three street, and reserve police officer John LaPlante, who grabbed a fire extinguisher from inside the store, helped put out the flames. No one was injured. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 13, 1991. Southeast Missouri State University Summer Touring Theater cast members Doug Powers and Jeff South rehearsed their lines for the William Shakespeare play, “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” The 11-member cast planned to take the show on the road. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 28, 1991. Abram Hirschowitz, a resident of the Missouri Veterans Home at Cape Girardeau, took his turn in the watermelon seed-spitting contest during a celebration marking the home’s one-year anniversary. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 25, 1991. Workers replaced a section of 600 feet of track, after 28 cars of a Union Pacific freight train derailed one mile north of Bell City on the Cottonbelt Railroad tracks. (Fred Lynch ~ 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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