old searcy: Davis Furniture in Searcy AR, approximately 1967. Old appliances.
- 04/24/14 11:08 AM
Facebook calls it TBT meaning Throwback Thursday. So on this Thursday, I dug out a picture found in the Harding College yearbook ad section in 1967. It shows a picture of appliances in the Richard Davis Furniture Store. I certainly remember appliances that looked like these. Notice the stoves. I don't see a single smooth-top stove like the ones that seems to be in all homes now, including mine. Trust me, I wish I had my old stove back. I really hate the smooth top. And look at those rugs that are hanging on the wall. I don't remember … (12 comments)
old searcy: Searcy AR old Robbins-Sanford building and the famous horse that was their advertisement.
- 12/29/13 08:34 PM
We have had a lot of folks who grew up in Searcy AR and who loved Searcy AR mention the horse that the old Robbins-Sanford Merc. Co used as advertisement. As kids, they got a terific thrill when it was in parades and they seem to think they were allowed to sit on it from time to time. So here is the best picture that I have seen of the horse. It even gives their motto, "In business since horse & buggy days." This is probably a parade day because it appears to be a float. This picture was provided … (8 comments)
And here is the gentleman who was on the side. The buyer of this card has gone out of his way to send us these pictures! I hope we can see them well enough now for some of the Sleuths to identify them. … (6 comments)
From the right is Harold Gene Sullivan from Searcy originally but now living in Seattle. Next is Bob Fuller, the better half of our beloved Anita "Tart" Hart Fuller who is next in the picture. Then we find the man who can do anything, Don Thompson, and beside Don is Carolyn Sullivan. None of them still live in Searcy but have fond memories of the OLD Searcy … (17 comments)
old searcy: Harding College, Searcy Arkanasas, in 1948. Aerial view and some buildings for your review.
- 11/21/10 07:17 AM
A Harding College (now Harding University) yearbook from 1948 has been rediscovered and I'm borrowing some pictures for this blog. First is an aerial view of the school. For fun perhaps you can find the following structures in the aerial view. I graduated from Harding with a degree in Art so I know that the President's house was turned into an Art gallery. My own student exhibit was displayed there so I recognize it in the picture below.
This house is the President's home.
This one belonged to the Dean.
This one is the boy's dormitory. How things have … (12 comments)
old searcy: East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas revisited.....almost.....
- 10/04/10 01:14 AM
Reports from people who grew up in Searcy Arkansas prior to the 60's indicate that East Race was a street with big trees, impressive houses and wrap porches in many cases. The mystery for my Searcy readers today is whether they have ever seen this house. Okay, I'll just go ahead and tell you. This house sat where the Sexton's Grocery Store is today. Reportedly, Safeway (the original grocery store who located there) offered to buy the house and the family who owned it chose to sell. One family hated to see the beautiful house be razed so they bought … (18 comments)
old searcy: The evolution of a blue house in Searcy Arkansas....
- 05/29/10 02:12 AM
The evolution of a blue house in Searcy Arkansas, sworn to be the truth by Anita Fuller who spent many happy hours in the house, is repeated in this blog. First we had the country porch type house. Anita was a little tot who sat on the front porch looking as if she was looking for a friend. Porch swings were the thing. A cool front porch, in fact, with a big tree for shade. Anita had a very active and colorful mother who liked the latest fashions so in the 50's she remodeled the house. Remember the 50's was a time when you HAD to … (24 comments)
And that's my daddy protecting me if that snake comes alive.
Perhaps that is not what the young boy is thinking but I do feel that he was as thrilled as could be to be out snake hunting with two men who loved him. In case you are wondering, it is my husband and his dad, V. W. Duncan and Mr. Holmes, my husband's grandpa on his mother's side. The Holmes lived on the side of a hill in Searcy Arkansas and it had lots of rocks and … (11 comments)
old searcy: Two story house that used to stand where Sexton's Food Store is now on East Race in Searcy Arkansas.
- 03/11/10 12:18 PM
Here's a rediscovered photograph of a house that used to be on East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas. It was loaned to me by Dorothy Yarnell Warden, our historical oracle, and she tells us that it was built probably around the 1920's by R. A. Neelly, a relative of hers. It replaced the cottage that we featured yesterday and was the reason for moving the smaller house. It was located where the Sexton's Food Market is now. I love the lady on the porch steps and the curtain blowing in the open upstairs window. Look how the street was not … (13 comments)
old searcy: Searcy Arkansas c. 1930 Pershing Service Station and First Methodist Church and a wrecked car.
- 02/04/10 11:22 AM
This picture is so interesting. This was loaned to me by Bob and Anita Fuller. It shows a wrecker pulling in a wrecked car and dates around the 1930's. In the background is First Methodist Church. The filling station was called Pershing Service Station and is no longer there. I have another picture of Pershing Filling Station on this blog. I need some of the Searcy experts to tell us what the two story building in the background was. And is that a man back there in front of the church? I do love this picture! … (19 comments)
old searcy: This old house may be from another town? Perhaps Heber Springs?
- 01/23/10 06:28 AM
Notice the brick and rock work on this house. There are hundreds of houses in our area of Arkansas with this finish. You see them on the side of the highway, on older streets in Searcy, on the main streets of Searcy if they haven't been torn down, and in surrounding towns. The construction looks complex to me. Someone once said there was a rock man who did this as his specialty. If my blog buddies know who he was, give him credit. I have looked and looked for this house and can't find it in Searcy Arkansas. I have discovered this light … (15 comments)
old searcy: Old house, unusual weather, in old Searcy Arkansas. Yarnell house?
- 01/20/10 02:57 AM
This house is no longer in Searcy. It was removed in order for "things modern" to be built. I'm not sure exactly where it was but my sources say it was between the West Arch street Church of Christ and downtown. Sources also say they think it may have been called the Yarnell house? They say with assurance that it was Mildred Wilbourn's (now deceased) grandmother's house. And they say with assurance that it was a magnificent old house. I'll bet this picture got snapped because of the unusual-for-Searcy-Arkansas snowfall. Perhaps a few comments from you folks out there can set … (26 comments)
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