Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, was a photographer for The Tiger and The Girardot, and was on the staff of The Capaha Arrow and The Sagamore at Southeast Missouri State University. He worked as a photographer / reporter (among other things) at The Jackson Pioneer and The Southeast Missourian.
He transferred to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, his junior year, and served as photo editor of The Ohio University Post. He was also chief photographer of The Athens Messenger.
He was chief photographer of the Gastonia (NC) Gazette for a long 18 months until he could escape to The Palm Beach Post, where he served as a staff photographer, director of photography, editorial operations manager and telecommunications manager. He accepted a buyout in 2008, after 35 years at the paper.
Most of the stories are about growing up in a small Midwestern town on the Mississippi River, but there’s no telling what you might run into.
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I remember a Windmill Drive-in between Cape and Jackson that in the late 40’s showed free [old] movies that could be seen from the parking lot….Is that the place?
I remember the Windmill and drive-in. Joe Metje’s Father Walt used to take us there. eat watermelons on a picnic table and spit the seeds on the ground. Also Later he bought a go-kart for Joe. we went there many a time and rode it. That was the good old days. They had it soaped up and then it was hard to keep it on the track there. we then started going to the air port and riding it on one of the old runways.