Construction of the West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau, which will feature the first Famous-Barr store in Missouri outside the Greater St. Louis area, began Wednesday and is expected to be completed in two years. The 600,000-square-foot shopping center is being built by the May Stores Shopping Centers of St. Louis and Drury Industries of Cape Girardeau. The mall is expected to generate 500 jobs and provide the city of Cape Girardeau with $700,000 in sales tax revenue.
At the County Jail, Cape Girardeau firefighters gathered across from the county jail at Jackson Friday after their nine-mile march in a fain attempt to have themselves arrested for violating a court order against their strike. The firemen returned to work at 7 p.m., however, after the city accepted their proposal for bringing a federal mediator into the dispute over wage and benefit increases.
Striking Cape Girardeau firemen march toward the county jail in Jackson Friday in an attempt to have themselves arrested for violating a court order against the strike. The sheriff, however, refused to arrest the firemen and their supporters. The firemen have been on strike since Wednesday.
Photo of building wreckage, with a paint sign that has the text "Cover the Earth" depicting a paint can pouring paint over a globe. This is in front of a store room that is in shambles, and broken cinder blocks and concrete all around it.
Photo of The Bolduc-LeMeilleur House, built in 1792, which will be open to the public during the 18th annual Jour de Fete in Ste. Genevieve, August 13 and 14 1983.
New Cement Plant: Marquette County's new $102 million cement plant (left) went into production last week at Cape Girardeau. The 1-million-ton-per-year facility is among the most energy and cost-efficient cement plants in the country. In the photo above, Pat Jarrett, plant manager; and Phil Gutmann, a Gulf & Western Natural Resources Group executive, observe the kiln firing at the new plant.
Burned Out Basement - Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Charles Mills, left, holds a plate containing three cookies and a snack cake found near an apparently abandoned boy who was rescued from a basement fire Tuesday. Police say the boy, who was found unconscious at the foot of the steps, right, is in a coma and remains in critical condition. Police have charged the boy's mother with abandonment.
Tornadoes followed by flash floods swept through southeastern Missouri, killing four and injuring at least 35. Downtown Cape Girardeau was clogged with vehicles stranded by the flooding. Two of the dead, a man 56 and a woman 76 drowned when they left their stalled truck at a Cape Girardeau intersection, and were swept away by flood waters.
Photo of the Municipal Bridge in Cape Girardeau, MO - taken from off of the bridge, toward one end as it stretches over the water. Shows cars stopped at the toll booth driving both directions.
Spring photo of the St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau, MO. Shows the outside of the building, at the corner of Pacific and Good Hope streets with snow covering the grass.
View north from the highway ridge at Cape Girardeau, Mo. showing a complete section of the flood wall. The floodwall will save the city from its almost annual flood battering. The city on the average will have a flood in the future only every 100 years. a $131,000,000 floodwall protection project is in the works for St. Louis and will start this year. St. Louis is the last major river city without any protection from floods on the Mississippi. Estimated cost of the Cape Girardeau project is $5,985,000. Photos from Army Corps of Engineers.
Long Beards took over to start Cape Girardeau's 150th anniversary celebration. This rig was in a parade to bury "Rusty D. Razor." The riders (from left, front): Oliver Farrow and Luther Hahs; (rear) Paul Davis and A. B. Crowell.
This building replaced the old college (built in 1873), which was destroyed by fire. This new building was built in 1906. The Southeast Missouri State Teachers' College has approximately 1000 students enrolled.
Cape Girardeau Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, connecting Missouri and Illinois at Cape Girardeau, MO. One million six hundred thousand dollar traffic bridge. Called the Gateway to the Ozarks.
"Grave of Don Lewis Lorimer, founder of Cape Girardeau, 1793. Wife died in 1808. First white person to be buried in this Lorimier Cemetery. Both he and his wife are buried here. He died in 1812. This pavilion was built over their grave. Mrs. Lorimer was the daughter of an Indian - he had great influence with the Indians. There was no trouble in known history of trouble with the Indians in Cape Girardeau."
Union Troops, Cape Girardeau - "An important position on the Mississippi between Cairo and St. Louis. Cape Girardeau is about 45 miles northwest of Cairo and 160 miles southeast of St. Louis, 1,180 miles from New Orleans and 860 miles from St. Paul, MN. It is also the terminus of a road which leads to Jackson, the capital of the county, and to Fredericktown, and from thence to Pilot Knob, and Ironton. It thus formed the landing point where troops and supplies could be sent from Cairo to Central Missouri."
