The Capital of Southeast Missouri, as its newspaper asserts, is Cape Girardeau, which boomed as a riverfront town before the Civil War and now has an economic stability based on diversified industry and farming. The view of this photo looks south toward Old Ozark Trails Bridge with the Missouri Utilities Co. plant and International Shoe factory in the foreground; Smelterville is beyond the bridge.
Business District of Cape Girardeau looking West along Broadway. Pretentious Southeast Missourian building in lower left foreground. Steepled church in distance is Trinity Lutheran church, one of thirty churches within city limits.
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.
General View of Beautiful Fairground Park at Cape Girardeau, MO., 1843 spring base of the Browns. The principal part of the Browns' training will be done on the baseball field shown across the lake. The farthest part of the outfield from the plate is 500 feet. The Administration Building of Southeast Missouri State Teachers' College rises up in the upper right-hand corner.
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.
