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arkansas blog: Sleeping porches? Searcy Arkansas is hot but we have air conditioning now. - 06/27/10 09:21 AM
My car says it is 104 degrees outside!
My car says it is 99 degrees outside!
My friend says we're having August weather right now in June. No one argues that it is not HOT, HOT, HOT in our neck of the woods.
So driving by these two houses in Searcy Arkansas reminds me that when they were built there was no air conditioning. These were sleeping porches.....or at least I have been told that they were. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
In this area nighttime does not bring a lot of relief from the heat so folks could climb … (19 comments)
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arkansas blog: Please! Don't shoot! It's just me, the harmless real estate lady!! - 06/19/10 09:34 PM
I've said before that you never know what you'll find when you get assigned an REO to go check out, change the locks and prepare for selling.
This week I found this guy. He was staring at me through the woods and I practically let out the words used in the title of this blog.
He looks as if he's going to shoot me! But he also looks as bug-eyed scared as I did.
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arkansas blog: Another oldie. From Smith-Vaughn Mercantile to Sowell's Furniture. Searcy Arkansas. - 06/04/10 08:30 AM
This old picture predates me and my short 40+ years in Searcy Arkansas.....I think. I didn't recognize where it was. Here's a picture lifted from some old high school annual. Look at the phone number! How'd they get # 1?
Hubby had to tell me where this location was and what is there now. Compare.
Sowell's, 207 W Arch, has just gone through an update and the outside looks great. How interesting, however, to see that someone covered up lots of glass. The corner entry to the store remains and note the sidewalk has been made handicapped accessible.
It's also … (19 comments)
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arkansas blog: Country music is just funny! But I do have high class music friends. - 06/02/10 03:46 PM
I tried. I tried and tried and tried to become a music lover....high class music lover, I mean.
My friend Anita can play the fiddle violin and had a mother who sent her to piano lessons. She's got class.
My friend Bill Fuller plays in a high class restaurant in Memphis and is so good that I blogged him.
My friend Bobby Fuller has lived music....and every old High School annual that I see has all these people playing musical instruments or singing in the choir or marching in the band.....
All my friends can do musical stuff cept me.......
So I confess … (36 comments)
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arkansas blog: From puzzled to precise to piano man.....Searcy Arkansas native Bill Fuller makes it! - 05/31/10 09:59 AM
I fell in love with this picture even though I knew not who it was. It's the expression! Puzzled? Wondering? Pleading? Burning up in that wool jacket and layered outfit? What was he thinking?
I found out later that this boy was Billy Fuller from Searcy Arkansas.
Billy matured.
Billy gained confidence .
Billy became the piano man.
He achieved a degree in music from Hendrix College in Conway Arkansas.
He has had a successful career in music ranging from youth ministry in the Methodist Church to organizing choirs in the United States Air Force.
Billy has been active in theatre … (38 comments)
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arkansas blog: Old Searcy Arkansas historic Benjamin Black House is now city owned. - 04/17/10 09:22 PM
300 East Race, the location of this historic old home, is now owned by the city of Searcy Arkansas. It was begun in 1858 by Benjamin Clayton Black as a two-room log cabin. The home was remodeled and added to several times.
The house has been owned by Dr. Porter Rodgers and his wife, Carol, since in the early 1980's. It was remodeled and became a real estate office. The remodel, however, was within the guidelines of the National Register of Historic Places and it is on their register.
Dr. Porter Rodgers has now donated the house to the city of … (13 comments)
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arkansas blog: Test time for my Searcy readers. Where was this house. Hint. It is no longer there. - 03/23/10 07:37 AM
In an attempt to relive some of Searcy Arkansas's history we've been running pictures of some old houses. This is another one for my Searcy readers to think about and see if they remember it. Where was it? What is there now? And if you want to name the person in the picture you can do that to.
Fewer and fewer of these great old houses remain. I deliberately drove over to take pictures of two houses on a street near downtown Searcy. I knew they were in bad shape and wouldn't be around much longer.
Well! When I … (34 comments)
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arkansas blog: Shhhhhhh....This is a quiet note for parents.....gift your kids with a house...... - 02/24/10 07:08 PM
I ran this ad because I was so impressed with one family's help in giving support to the children in their house search. Grandparents had to advance the earnest money for the children but got it all back minus 94 cents. The children got into a great house for 94 cents and will now get an $8000 tax credit!
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Mom and Dad, how'd you like to give your kid a house for a gift? But no money required from you? You need to be thinking of this $8000 tax credit for first-time home buyers that your kid can receive. So … (17 comments)
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arkansas blog: Does a roof have to leak? Not if it is pitched high enough. - 02/22/10 09:20 PM
As I drive by this house very often I usually notice the roof again. It appears to be in terrible shape. In fact, you can see a roof under the roof and there may even be another one under that one.
There is also a TV antennae probably left over from the 50's. There is also asbestos siding which must have been the big thing in the 50's.
I once had a house listed with this style roof and asked a roofer about it. He said, "Well, it might look bad, Barb, but it ain't never gone leak."
"Will never leak??"
The roofer … (23 comments)
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arkansas blog: Des Arc Arkansas boys at the old swimming hole......and a lovely lady. - 02/21/10 04:11 PM
We wrote a blog yesterday with pictures of the Searcy Arkansas band members traveling, having fun and hopefully not getting into any mischief. Summer rolled around and it became time to cool off so more pictures were taken.
Our photographer from the past, Paula, now shares these pictures. She calls them the Des Arc boys and she's in two of the pictures with a couple of the boys. I think she may have been sorta sweet on these guys. Des Arc is a small town several miles from Searcy so whether Paula went there to swim with these guys she doesn't remember. I like … (14 comments)
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arkansas blog: Searcy Arkansas kids from the 50's having lots of fun on band trips. - 02/19/10 07:58 PM
My friend Paula shares these pictures of some of the band members from old Searcy Arkansas on trips to outings. She took these in the 50's and they are fascinating today. We see in these photos the way they dressed then, the activities they participated in and their love of life. They seemed to love eating, drinking (I hope they were not really drinking beer in the restaurant picture), bobby sox and short shorts. I don't know what school buses look like today but I do remember riding on the buses that looked like this inside.
If any of you readers see … (21 comments)
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arkansas blog: The rest of the story. The tale of a split house with both sides still standing. Searcy Arkansas. - 02/18/10 09:23 AM
My blog yesterday asked about whether this listed house was half a house. Here's my proof.
The two houses are beside each other but face different streets. Note on the blue house the old type windows that are the same as the white house. You can also see the rock foundation in this picture.
Also note the trim around the entrance door which once probably matched.
Now lets compare the sides of the houses.
They both have the same type rock foundation. The rock foundation on the white house is visible here.
Look also at … (14 comments)
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arkansas blog: 1876 House for sale in Searcy Arkansas. Are the rumors true? - 02/17/10 07:18 AM
This delightful house on a close-to-town street in Searcy Arkansas is for sale. It's a charmer. It was built in 1876 and has been well maintained since then. It was an antique store for a few years.
Rumors, however, have always floated around that it is half a house. That is not a derogatory remark about the house but a true statement, if true. It was once connected to another house and the house was split.
So you Searcy sleuths need to let me in on the validity of this rumor. And where is the other half??
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arkansas blog: New construction in Searcy AR. One of a kind. Better hurry. Won't last long! - 02/16/10 07:14 AM
All of the above is true for once. This is not advertising puffery! It is truly one of a kind. It is going rapidly even as we speak. BUT with temperatures below freezing here it may be around for a few more days.
I must admit that I've never even seen an igloo before. Or an ice house. Or a snow castle. So when I drove by this one, I circled the block and came back with my trusty camera. It is located on North Main Street in Searcy Arkansas.
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arkansas blog: A new car on a street in Searcy Arkansas. At least I think it was Searcy. - 02/15/10 07:25 AM
I have recovered slides. My friend Larry DeGroat loaned me his device for taking old slides which no one ever looks at anymore and putting the image on the computer. With me it was almost like the "Lost Years" recovered because the slides had not been viewed in probably 40 years or longer.
I especially like these two. The guy may be recognizable to some of you in Searcy. If so, let me know. The car had to be his pride and was perhaps the reason for the photo. I'm also wondering if anyone recognizes the location of the car in Searcy Arkansas. The sign … (22 comments)
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arkansas blog: Searcy Arkansas was once home to the mother of a now-famous star called Cher..... - 02/13/10 04:46 PM
This photo was loaned to me by my friend Sherry, whose mother was Frances Hall Quattlebaum. Frances was a colorful lady who was admired by the folks who lived in Searcy. Frances passed away on Sept 15, 1999 and upon hearing of her death the newspaper editor received a call from a lady who called herself Georgia Holt.
She was calling just to say how much she'd loved her friend Frances and how they'd played together as teenagers. Georgia was born Jackie Jean Crouch near Searcy Arkansas. She came to live with her Aunt Zela Croom during the late 1930's when her … (14 comments)
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arkansas blog: 1970's photographic sequence of events.....kid runs away from home. - 02/12/10 07:17 AM
An assignment for the 4-H Club in the 70's, if you took photography as a project, was to do a photographic sequence of events, wordless. Here's one that is even funnier now than it was then. It was done by my son using his friend as a model.
Here's the young man unhappy with home life. He grabs a suitcase and tries to get a ride. That is Samsonite luggage which cost a lot of money then and weighed a ton. No wheels were on luggage then. Remember walking through an airport with luggage like this? Kids went barefoot a lot back then and … (30 comments)
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arkansas blog: He came, he saw, he conquered my Tivo. Within minutes. Activerain friends are the greatest! - 02/10/10 09:56 PM
Activerain friends contribute. They add comments to our blogs, provide pictures, and generally keep us on our toes looking for new blog ideas. One of my activerain friends came to my house today and made me wireless!!
Of course, those same activerain friends can stir up stuff. I didn't know I needed to be wireless. I was pretty happy with wires running everywhere. Then the friends found out that I hate TV commercials so therefore I don't watch TV.
"Barbara, you need to get Tivo," several of them said.
"What is Tivo and why do I need it?"
"You fast forward through … (28 comments)
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arkansas blog: Judsonia to Kensett bridge that is now closed to through traffic until it can be repaired. - 02/09/10 10:07 AM
This old picture of a bridge just says that it is near Searcy Arkansas. I'm thinking that it is the bridge that connected Judsonia with Kensett without folks having to drive miles around. If so, it is the bridge that is now closed with the county trying to find the money to make repairs. Being in Judsonia the other day, I took this next picture.
I can't tell for sure if they're the same. But here's the greatest photo of the bridge that connects. It is a professional photo taken by Fred Garcia and is on First Security Bank's calendar … (15 comments)
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arkansas blog: Exxon Service Station in Searcy Arkansas....or it WAS in Searcy Arkansas. - 02/08/10 07:28 AM
We once had filling stations/service stations on every corner of Searcy Arkansas and other towns across the country. They're dwindling.
Here's one that is gone. I'll let you see if you know where it was, Searcy readers, and report back to me. A hint. The house in the picture is still there. It looks like one of the old Sears Roebuck houses that was a mail order house. I did a blog on another one or two in Searcy and this one is similar.
This photo was taken by my son back in the 70's when he took photography for … (21 comments)
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Barbara S. Duncan, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR
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