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New restaurant in Searcy Arkansas. The Whistlestop Barbeque is like a museum...

A new restaurant has opened at 2315 W Beebe Capps Expressway on the West side of Searcy Arkansas. Lots of vehicles have been parked around it saying that Searcy is trying it out. Searcy is great about going to a new restaurant and giving it a try. Usually ONE try! If the food is not excellent, that's it! It's not going to be around very long.

I gave it a try the other day. Here's what I liked best of all. The decor will bowl you over when you walk in the door. There are boats hanging from the ceiling, bicycles perched on dividers, old uniforms hanging from the ceiling. It is like visiting a museum and stepping back in time. You can feast your eyes on all the old stuff.

And the one who provided the old stuff, free of charge and doing the work himself, is our very loved builder Steve Ghent who moves old houses and restores them, who respects and loves history. He has collected these items throughout the years and used them to give atmosphere to this restaurant.

My friend and I had a very pleasant meal so the food is good at this new restaurant. I hope it is here for a long time. And if you see Steve Ghent tell him how much you enjoy his decorating this building.

Whistlestop Barbeque

Posted by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR on 11/04/2009 03:04 PM

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12 Comments on New restaurant in Searcy Arkansas. The Whistlestop Barbeque is like a museum...

NOV

Whistle Stop looks like a pretty neat place to visit, hangout and relax and enjoy a nice meal. I like that he even has a moped on one of the partitions, how cool.

That looks like a fantastic place to eat! Love the decor & name too!

Great post. You'll probably see Steve before I do, so please pass along my compliments. BTW, do they have fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop? (Forgive me Fannie Flagg, but I had to ask her.)

Keep featuring these Bar B Que and catfish places and I'll have to come up with a trip to Searcy.

Might that be a Whizzer motor bike, rather than a MoPed? Any ActiveRainers remember the Whizzer? Two boys in Searcy had them, they were truly the bees knees!

Love the name, and I'm with Bob(by) Collins, if they don't serve Fried Green Tomatoes they are missing the mark.

Anita Fuller

Suesan, you can sit in that restaurant and see all the things from your childhood!

Greg, it is a fun place to eat and stare.

Bob, I didn't check the menu for those but wouldn't they also be seasonal? Ya gotta have a fresh green tomato, don't you?

Anita, I'm ignorant about anything past a bicycle having never known a Whizzer of a Moped. I almost understood the "bicycle built for two" but didn't get a picture of it. Go there next time you're in town.

A fascinating way to decorate. I imagine it would be realy fun for the kids as well.

The Whizzer was just a regular bike with a small motor added. The one in the picture isn't like any Whizzer I've seen. I was at a vintage car show in Seattle this summer and there was a Whizzer on display. Still made me jealous remembering how I wanted one.

Anita, I'm trying to remember the two guys you refer to that had them. I remember that Jimmy Chandler did but cannot recall the other.

Dear Godmother,

This is the answer to our prayers. I will come work there and stay with you seven nights a week. I hope you have a room for the Godson.

Nutsy

NOV

Gene: (Harold Gene).....I'm pretty sure the other boy was Larry Killough and you are right about Jimmy Chandler having one. It MIGHT have been Don Christian but I'm thnking it was Larry. I wanted one, too. They didn't seem to have them for very long, meaning years and years. Guess they got their driver's licenses and away they went in their cars. Wonder what they did with the Whizzers? If you really want to drool, Google Whizzer Motor Bikes.....

Barbara, I"m thinking if one really wanted to buy green tomatoes, they could easily find a market! I actually bought some green tomatoes at Searcy's Farmer's Market this summer, and made some Fried Green Tomatoes. Mine were sort of sour, and not as tasty as I had been led to believe.

Anita Fuller

On the subject of motorized bicycles, the most unusual one I have seen is in the Riverside Casino antique

car museum in Laughlin, NV. This is a 1936 Evinrude outboard motor powered bicycle.

The Whistle Stop Barbeque looks like a fun place to eat a bite.

Evinrude Powered Bicycle

Theodora, I think kids would like it. Especially big kids!!

Harold Gene, you've got a logo now? Neat. I remember being jealous of kids who had more than I did. I woke up one day and found a very used bicycle on the front porch for me and my sister to share and I was the happiest little girl in the world!!

Nutsy! I can't wait. I've already made you a cubbyhole in my attic. You can ride the squirrel hunter's (oops! sorry...) golf cart to work because it's only a few blocks away. We'll be happy as thieves!!!

Anita, when you bought them they were in season! What about the dead of winter? We can check the frozen food sections and they probably have some but they'd probably be awful! I am also not too good at cooking fried green tomatoes.

Don, that bike looks like an invention that you'd do! You'd get in there with all your formulas and come up with a bike that would whiz off down the street impressing all the girls like Anita! LOL

Why does it not surprise me that Don came up with this "contraption"? My son will love seeing this, as he is a fisherman and has had many little motors on his little fishing boats. He owns a motorcycle now, I am sorry to say!

I have owned a Puch moped! I inherited it from the owners of the house we bought. Did get it started once, but wasn't very adept in getting it stopped (those hand brake thingees) and slammed into a wall. That was the end of my motorized bike days. Barbara, a Puch moped ls like saying you owned a Rolls-Royce or Mercedes. I'm pretty sure it is made in Austria. Now the Italians would disagree with me.....they make all sorts of fancy-smancy mopeds.

Anita Fuller

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