Cape Girardeau History and Photos
News photos that have grown whiskers and have become history
Photos taken in and around Cape Girardeau, MO
There are plenty of hat selections for the well-dressed man in this photo from March 1957. Picking out the right head covering must have been a family affair.
Unfortunately, I don’t know who the people are nor in which store it was taken. None of the signs on the wall give a clue.
Based on the HATS sign, it looks like it was taken at the same store that is in Frame 13 of a Midnight Madness sale I shot in 1964.
Ideas?
I owe the Pinecrest Azalea Gardens an apology. When Mother and I went searching for them in 2011, we arrived late in the day and late in the season. The light didn’t do the plants justice, and we were a little past the peak of the blooms. I happened upon the pix tonight and turned to the Gardens’ website to see the 2014 schedule.
Drat! The site said the gardens would be closing May 20. “See you next spring.”
It’s in the vicinity of Oak Ridge, but isn’t the easiest place to find. Check out the website for directions.
Click on any photo to make it larger, then use the arrow keys to move through the images. Maybe I’ll get there at the right time next spring.
Every once in awhile we win one. The last time I photographed Kage School, I figured it was only a matter of time before the cracked walls would come tumbling down, taking with it a progressive school that educated area children for 112 years. Then, I saw a small notice in the paper that Rick Hetzel had bought the property and was going to rehab it.
Fred Lynch shot a photo gallery of the early stages on March 24, 2014. (He’s a real photographer who has to answer to an editor, so he went to the trouble of lighting the interior. I just wing it with available light.)
When I got into town, one of my first stops was at the school, where I was lucky enough to run into Rick, who said he was turning it into a rental apartment. I was glad to hear that it was going to be used for an actual purpose instead of becoming a gift shop or mini-museum. Rick is going to keep as many of the original fixtures and furnishings as possible, he said.
He reminded me a bit of Chad Hartle, who took the old Schultz School and turned it into Schultz Senior Apartments, a textbook case of turning a white elephant into something the community can be proud of.
Here are photographs I shot on April 2 and May 2 of the work in progress and the men doing it. Click on any photo to make it larger, then use your arrow keys to move through the images.
The night I shot the street art on Broadway, I was headed back to put my camera and tripod back in the car when this colorful display at 510 Broadway caught my attention. I fooled around a bit, but could never quite get the right exposure to recreate what I saw with my eye, so I didn’t bother to do anything with it.
I took a second look at the sequence tonight and noticed that I had captured a couple of joggers passing by the window. For you photo geeks, I was zoomed to 55mm on my Nikon D7000; my ISO was 6400; the exposure was 1/13 @ f/5.6.
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