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(clockwise from top left)
JIM DIXON of Fairfax, Mo., readies a bottle rockets
display for the evening rush of customers on Tuesday
afternoon at Liberty Fireworks in Rock Port, Mo.
JONATHON LATKA, 2, dances with the Liberty
Fireworks dinosaur, a.k.a. Reed Evans of Rock Port,
Mo., Tuesday evening. Jonathon came to Rock Port
from Omaha with his father to buy fireworks.
CUSTOMERS from Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska do
their shopping Tuesday afternoon at the Fireworks
Emporium in Rock Port, Mo. According to one of the
store’s employees, the Fireworks Emporium has been
open for almost 20 years and gets almost 90 percent
of its customers from outisde of Missouri.