Bob Collins, a blogging friend who remembers Searcy as he grew up, says lots of mom & pop corner grocery stores existed in Searcy at one time. Most families had no car or one car and needed to walk to get supplies.
"But the advent of supermarkets with their greater selections and lower prices along with more family cars meant the beginning of the end for these little stores. Their suppliers such as Searcy Wholesale and the Jobber, Simon Moye, felt the change as well. Then along came big chain convenience stores and bye-bye mom and pop," wrote Bob. He can probably tell us where a few of those were PLUS explain what a "jobber" was.
Because of his email, I looked again at the old calendar that is hanging on my kitchen wall. I thought it probably dated back to 1943 or so. When I checked it, however, it's a 1916 calendar from the E. C. Blakemore & Co. Yikes!! That's almost a hundred years old!! And, no, I did not save it since I was a child! I'm sure I found it in a junk shop years ago. I really treasured the still-lovely lithograph on the front. All the colors are still brilliant.
So a big question might be whether he didn't need an address because Searcy was so small or was he just a passing-through salesman?
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