Cape Central High Photos

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 was photo editor of The Ohio University Post in Athens, Ohio. He moved on to The Athens (OH) Messenger and The Gastonia (NC) Gazette. He worked as a staff photographer, director of photography, editorial operations manager and telecommunications manager at The Palm Beach (FL) Post between 1972 and 2008, when he retired.

Come here to see photos and read stories (mostly true) about coming of age in Southeast Missouri in the 1960s.

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What Are These People Thinking?

[Non-Cape News alert. From time to time, I may toss in some stuff that isn't exactly from or about Cape directly. This is a story about a week where I experienced the best and the worst that the newspaper business has to offer.]

I’ve mentioned that I spent most of my life in the ink-slinging business. C.J. [...]

January 16th, 2010 | Category: Stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else | 3 comments

See Your Toes, Win a Third Eye on Your Forehead

Fluoroscope in the National Museum of Nuclear Science

There’s been some talk lately about the machines at Buckner Ragsdale and the other downtown shoe stores that would let you see your toes inside your shoes.

[Chuck Blitstein jogged my memory about Gaylor's in an earlier comment. That's where we always went for [...]

January 13th, 2010 | Category: Stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else | 8 comments

Police Safety Review Tips from the 50s

You’re going to hear a lot about the time capsule that is my Mother’s attic.

I was rooting around up there last month and ran across a 24-page The Police Safety Review booklet that was distributed by the Cape Girardeau Police Department in what had to have been the mid-to-late 50s.

Archeologists determine dates by [...]

November 13th, 2009 | Category: Stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else | Leave a comment
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