searcy: Simpson, Simpson, Collier and Brock. Searcy AR attorneys hold open house. - 04/27/12 06:43 AM
This is the old view of Headlee's Drug Store which was located in downtown Searcy Arkansas.
This is another view of the building.
This is the look of the building today. Simpson, Simpson, Collier and Brock, Searcy attorneys, held an open house which I dropped in on. It was impressive to see how they have expanded from the large building on the corner to the one adjoining. They will probably do more to the exterior but the inside is finished out beautifully.
Curious? Here they are. From the left, Collier, Simpson, Brock and Simpson. … (37 comments)
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searcy: 1965 revisited at the Duncan's Used Car Lot on East Race Street, Searcy Arkansas. - 03/03/12 06:56 AM
Just a blog or two ago I talked about little old office buildings that served as offices for car lots. I put this one up as an example of how they are just about gone and are showing lots of wear and tear. This one is in Beebe Arkansas.
Imagine my surprise when I was browsing through a 1965 Searcy High yearbook and saw this picture in the advertisements.
I hollered to Hubby (who was part of the Duncan crew) and said, "Well, look at this old picture of the car lot with the College Church of Christ in the background!" … (12 comments)
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searcy: Possum Grape. I kid you not. It is located in Arkansas. I traveled there. - 07/30/11 08:35 PM
Possum Grape is about 10 miles past Bradford Arkansas. Bradford is a town of about 800 people so Possum Grape folks probably travel to Bradford for quick items since Possum Grape folks have no store. Bradford is about 10 miles from Bald Knob, a town of about 4000 people. Bald Knob people may go to Searcy for supplies. Bald Knob is about 12 miles from Searcy Arkansas, my town. Searcy AR has about 20,000 folks.
I had to travel 8 miles past Possum Grape for a foreclosure listing! Count the miles if you're smart. I'm still in a daze wondering where … (33 comments)
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searcy: Unintentional Double Jeopardy. - 06/18/10 05:34 PM
The builder of this house spared no expense while constructing it. The best of everything was put in. The best of tile was selected and securely placed on both the front and back porches.
They forgot something, however. When it rains the tile gets wet. In the mornings dew is heavy and can also be on the front and back porches.
The tile that they chose was a clean-looking white. It is also slick! Even with no rain this tile is slick and smooth. When it is wet it becomes a floor that can send you flying in no telling which … (8 comments)
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searcy: Which came first? Bald Knob mansion or Searcy Arkansas (now gone) mansion? - 03/07/10 08:09 AM
Cruising through Bald Knob Arkansas, which I have to do quite often because of properties for sale, I always delight in driving past this house. Last week I drove by it and snapped a picture. It made me wish we had been able to keep more of the mansions that were in Searcy Arkansas and have been torn down for progress.
Looking at the picture made me wish there were a few kids in the windows, which made me remember an old picture from the newspaper of a mansion in Searcy AR. The mansion was torn down so I put the two photos of … (10 comments)
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searcy: Landline phones are being dropped. How are we going to handle this???? - 01/21/10 08:10 AM
I waved at my neighbor last week.
Their car is in the driveway.
Their dog still barks. Their cat visits my yard. They obviously still live beside me.
Tonight, I looked up their number in the phone book and dialed it. I needed to ask them a neighborhood question.
"The number you have dialed has been disconnected."
There it has happened again!! Those neighbors have probably decided that the landline is no longer needed. They have cell phones. Why pay that extra expense monthly for a landline?
As a matter of fact, hubby asked me two days ago if we REALLY … (35 comments)
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searcy: Oh, NO!! Honey, come quick! The little green light is on! Heat pump! - 01/08/10 11:10 AM
We love our heat pump. It works great most of the time. It is so economical and we were promised low bills by the electric company when we reluctantly installed one in the new house years ago.
It proved to be a good promise. They did say, however, that heat pumps are not good in extremely cold weather. Look where the temp gage is today!!! We hardly ever see that needle so close to a zero!
Frightful. We run around asking how people can stand cold weather like this ALL the time.
Another thing they pointed out is … (16 comments)
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searcy: Barbara Duncan, superstar real estate agent, meets Robert Wadlow, the gentle giant - 11/22/09 11:57 AM
On a trip to St. Augustine Florida last week, which took me away from activerain for a few days, decisions had to be made on what to visit. We decided to visit the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum even though I had doubts about its interest to me.
Was I wrong!!
The trip through the museum was so much fun! Here I'm staring up at the likeness of Robert Wadlow, the now celebrated "gentle giant."
He was 8' 11" and wore a size 37 shoe and was once billed as the world's tallest man. I think there may be taller … (16 comments)
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searcy: Letona Arkansas depot with our favorite Corrine Hart waiting there. - 11/02/09 08:41 PM
The White County Historical Society has a collection of pictures on its website and they've said we can share them. Here's a great one of the train depot in Letona, Arkansas.
Letona is about 15 miles from Searcy and has 215 residents at this time.
We're exploring how the trains went to every little town and below is a picture of the Letona depot. But first we we found this picture of a young woman named Corrine Harrison Hart at about 1924 sitting at the depot. Corrine is Anita's mother. Anita is a contributor to this blog. Anita, do you think the man … (12 comments)
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searcy: Old Armstrong Home in Armstrong Springs White County AR - 05/15/09 03:00 PM
Here's another great old picture taken at Armstrong Springs, White County Arkansas. Armstrong Springs had a hotel where people came and stayed to drink the healing waters of the springs. Ruby Nell Woodson Moye loaned me the picture of this picture of the Armstrong family, Ruby's relatives on her mother's side. It is taken on the front steps of a house that still stands there.
Ruby said that her grandfather bottled and sold the water! Sounds like he was way ahead of his time in selling bottled water. He is the 4th from left, middle row. Armstrong Springs became … (6 comments)
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searcy: Armstrong Springs White County Arkansas friendly get together. Keg party?? - 05/05/09 03:53 PM
What is this? A keg party? Surely not but that little child is sitting on what looks like a keg!
This picture was shared by Ruby Nell Woodson Moye and shows some sort of gathering at Armstrong Springs, White County Arkansas. Armstrong Springs was a community of some size with people coming for health purposes to stay at the hotel and bask in the healing spring water.
Ruby's dad is in the center with the hat. I like the fun looking girl on the right who appears to be having some fun! Probably circa 1917.
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searcy: Turtles don't have to have heads to live? - 12/15/08 03:57 PM
The White County Historical Society of White County has put out their third or fourth cookbook. It is fun to look through and has some great old pictures of White County. While looking through it, I read this story about Fried Fish and Turtle Meat by Walter Wisdom, now deceased. It's on pages 221 and 222 of the cookbook.
One beautiful morning a large crowd of us had gathered at the Wait's Place on Cypress Creek. We had all scattered out fishing. Father was getting a little old but he would go along with me with a sack for me to … (8 comments)
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searcy: My ears were burning this afternoon..... - 11/28/08 05:29 PM
The old Southern people would say, "My ears was a burnin' this afternoon and I think it's 'cause someone was a talkin' 'bout me."
I have met lots of people on this Activerain blog that I'd never have known otherwise. One of my favorites is Elizabeth Weintraub from Sacramento CA. My daughter was reading comments on one of the blogs and saw Elizabeth's signature and said, "I know her! She's married to my friend who used to work at the newspaper in Little Rock Arkansas when I did!"
So this afternoon my daughter visited with Elizabeth and Adam and the cat in their home in … (20 comments)
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searcy: Tonsil clinic held at Pangburn AR school in 1930! Unbelievable story! - 09/10/08 07:20 AM
Have you ever heard of a Tonsil Clinic? I am not making this up. It happened in Arkansas and probably other places. Sixty Pangburn Arkansas students underwent tonsillectomies at their school on Oct 17, 1930!
A most vivid article was published by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Dec. 10, 2000. It was so vivid that I saved it. I wish I could publish it but they'd sue me.
The article says, "The school became a hospital for a couple of days. Classrooms became operating rooms; Army cots were brought in; and the auditoriums became the recovery room where (some) patients stayed … (16 comments)
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searcy: MN&A, DK&S? Old Railroad Depot in Searcy AR. Another one. - 08/09/08 08:02 AM
Our continuing saga about railroad depots.....here's another one. This photo was taken by Paula in her Girl Scouts' project about photography. That was in the 40's. I mistakenly said it was a 4H project earlier but I've been corrected. Paula went around old Searcy snapping photos of buildings and businesses and those photos have almost made her a new Disfarmer. (Look him up if you've never heard of him. He was an eccentric photographer in Heber Springs and is worth a blog all by himself. His photos now sell for thousands.)
I need someone in Searcy-land to tell me which railroad … (30 comments)
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searcy: Higginson Arkansas very rare photograph. 1923 view. - 08/03/08 07:59 AM
It is so exciting to have friends supplying my blog with these great old photographs. This is one from Higginson AR. Ludean, my friend who lives there, got permission from the mayor to let me borrow the scenes.
Higginson is on the fringe of Searcy and used to be a thriving town as this shows. It now has a post office, a fire department and some hard working council members who are keeping it a nice place to live. New-house construction is going on in the city limits and lots of gas exploration and gas industry buildings are being built … (10 comments)
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searcy: A cowboy's mailbox in the state of Arkansas - 05/01/08 08:30 AM
Driving out in the country today to check on a possible house for sale I did a double take as I passed this mailbox. I actually decided to back up and take a picture of it for activerain to see.
I hope that taking a picture of a mailbox is not breaking any rules. I have cut off the address and one would have to do a lot of searching to find it.
Examine it to see how much skill has been put into it. I love the little pointy-toed shoes like cowboys wear and the hat pulled low like the cowboy singers … (14 comments)
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searcy: One level condo in Searcy Arkansas. Having a living estate auction. - 04/27/08 03:56 PM
We don't have a lot of condos in Searcy Arkansas, a small 20,000 population city approximately 50 miles from Little Rock Arkansas. The first ones built were exciting for our city but the builder made a mistake. He had an "outsider architect" plan them and though they were beautiful they had a problem.
They were expensive and the bedrooms were all upstairs with a very steep staircase to get to them. Young buyers couldn't afford them and older buyers couldn't climb the stairs. After a few of those duds, the builders got wise and did better planning.
This one is … (2 comments)
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searcy: A little information about Arkansas real property taxes - 04/17/08 01:29 PM
Amendment 79 to the Arkansas Constitution created two important savings for Arkansas residents regarding property taxes on their personal residence.
The homeowner gets a tax credit. To qualify the taxpaper must use the property as his or her primary residence for at least 6 month each year and be the owner of record. A person holding a recorded life estate in real property also qualifies. The tax credit will be increased to $350 per homestead this year, up from $300.
Additional saving was also created for any person who is disabled or 65 years of age or older. The assessed value of the … (5 comments)
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searcy: BETTER THAN NEW HOUSE IN SEARCY ARKANSAS - 04/11/08 08:56 AM
REALTORS have a saying about a house that is about two or three years old. We sometimes call it a "better than new house" because some owner has worked on the yard, added the window coverings and sometimes added a privacy fence.
This house located on Shawn Terrace in Searcy AR qualifies for that description. Best of all is the addition of the Plantation Shutters that are custom made and go all across the front of the house. I understand the shutters are extremely expensive and when I questioned the gentleman who is co-owner about the huge expense and why he made … (3 comments)
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