In the evening, there are other activities. For the younger generation, there are some school-sponsored sports events and dances. Bowling is popular, too. Other recreation includes rollerskating, many church-sponsored activities, and the plays and concerts provided by the three colleges. On the whole, no matter how much people may complain about the lack of things to do, Columbia has more variety in recreational activities than do most towns. Toronto; Photo by: Gerry Moses; Toronto; Canada; Graphic Editor for Imperial Oil Ltd.
April 19, 2019
The School of Journalism’s inaugural Missouri Photo Workshop took place in Columbia in 1949. Every year since, the workshop faculty, a who’s who of photojournalism, has guided participants through a weeklong immersion in visual storytelling. Participants come from all over the world to hone their craft while documenting the lives of citizens’ in a Missouri town. The workshop still hews to founder Cliff Edom’s dream of making pictures that tell the truth. Here are a few images from that first workshop. View hundreds more across many locales at mophotoworkshop.org.
The photo above by Gerry Moses, then of Toronto, comes to us from the inaugural workshop with the following caption: “In the evening, there are other activities. For the younger generation, there are some school-sponsored sports events and dances. Bowling is popular, too. Other recreation of the town includes roller-skating, many church-sponsored activities, and the plays and concerts provided by the three colleges. On the whole, no matter how much people may complain about the lack of things to do, Columbia has more variety in recreational activities than do most towns.”
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- After the sun goes down, the streets are fairly empty, but there is much activity in places which are still open. in this scene just as a heavy downpour is over, black clouds still hover above the city, but enough light reaches Broadway to paint one side of the street. We see two facets of the town — bright and dark. Photo by: Hal Power; Public Relations, Shell Oil
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- Some recreation is sponsored by the city or county — a fair every fall, square dances and donkey basketball games in the Armory, a baseball league. The students take part in college-sponsored programs. Stephens College has horses and airplanes and Christian College its swim meet. Photo by: Curtis O’Neal. Charleston, MO
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- In the daytime, there is plenty of activity to keep youth busy. Some recreation is sponsored by the city or county — a fair every fall, square dances and donkey basketball games in the Armory, a baseball league. The city also sponsors summer playgrounds at the schools, but sometimes the kids would rather find their own place to play. These boys evidently prefer their “sandlot” basketball goals to the school playground. Photo by: John Salis; Student; Chicago Institute of Design
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- Houses preserve the past and make problems for the future. Columbia’s housing ranges from modern, landscaped dwellings on Cliff Drive and Sunset Hill through the older two-story structures around the University and the still older houses in the northwest section; from the small new homes in the north east addition to the slums. Photo by: Howard Sochurek; Milwaukee Journal, went on to work for Life Magazine.
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- Here are the faces you see on the streets, in the stores and houses. These are the faces of Columbia, looking back at the past or ahead to the future. Photo by: Robert Mottar; Photographer at Baltimore News Post
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- Students have their hangouts, located on the south side of Broadway. They stop in between classes for a coke or a cup of coffee and get involved in long conversations — about teachers, classes, girls, politics, the weather and the Cardinals. Anywhere in Columbia, there’s time to stop and talk awhile before going home. Photo by: Gerry Moses; Toronto; Canada; Graphic Editor for Imperial Oil Ltd.
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- The people work and worry and relax. Lilac-scented May evenings are warm enough to sit on the porch with a paper, a comic book or a neighbor. May means “commencement” time. For the student, an important milestone — the beginning of a new job in a different world; for the farmer, a new season and the hope for a bigger and better harvest. Photo by: Louise Putman; Housewife from Kansas City
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- From midnight to dawn, the town sleeps. It isn’t yet city enough to stay awake all night. The city busses stop running soon after 11 p.m., when the show crowds have gone. The MK&T passenger train leaves in the middle of the night for the mainline junction at McBaine. The conductor dozes in his seat during the short trip. Photo by: Dante Tranquille; Utica; New York ; Chief Photogrpaher Utica Observer-Dispatch;
