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What is different about this street view? Lambert Terrace, Searcy Arkansas

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

I took photos of these two streets in one of our old loved subdivisions, Lambert Terrace, in Searcy Arkansas.  When I first started coming to Searcy Arkansas as a new bride the in-laws would say, "Let's go look at the new subdivisions."  They were referring to Lambert Terrace on the West side of the city or Cloverdale on the East side.  These were the first covenanted subdivisions in Searcy and folks were proud of them.

Back then if a house was built with a two-car carport it was considered one of the fine homes in Searcy.  Most houses had either a two-car or a one-car carport.  It was only when industry started bringing in some Northern transplants that two-car GARAGES were requested.  Searcy said, "What's a garage?"

So I had an aha moment while working in this neighborhood a few days ago.  I noticed something different and for fun, I'd like to see if you Searcy Sleuths can quickly tell me what the aha moment was for.  And it was not for carports or garages.

Lambert Terrace Searcy AR

Lambert Terrace

 

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Phyllis Arellano

That was back when the mailboxes were on the porches and not by the road

Nov 10, 2011 02:47 PM
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Marcia Bagarella Williams

Looks like only one side of the street has any curbing.

Nov 10, 2011 03:02 PM
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Anita Fuller

I figured it might be t.v. antennas on the old (but new at that time) subdivision,  and none now......but then the old didn't have antennas.  I'm stumped, but haven't given up, YET.

Nov 11, 2011 12:33 AM
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Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

The rest of the blog....

Phyllis, you got it immediately.  I was showing a house in Lambert Terrace and the potential buyer said, "Well, look at this mailbox inside the carport.  That's odd."  I then remembered.  Mail persons used to walk the street carrying the mail and in the old areas of Searcy they still do.  The mail person may have a car to ride some of the time but they have to go up to each and every house to put mail in the boxes.

Think of our new subdivisions.  Those pretty brick mailboxes that have been put in front of all the houses get backed over a lot!  At my house our mailbox has been backed into and knocked down two times.  Just ride along almost any street and see the reclining brick holders. 

Then also think of all the unprotected mailboxes that get beat up by teenagers who find it fun to bash boxes at night.

And my aha moment came when I realized that not one time in my career have I recorded the additional advantage to a listing if the mailbox was on the house!!  Shame on me!!

Now I'm wondering why the postal service has never attacked this frivolous expenditure of money?? 

Nov 11, 2011 01:15 AM
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Anita Fuller

I'll admit defeat, but not graciously:  I was looking for something that was THERE in the old days, you were thinking something that WASN'T THERE!  I'm going to have to poll the Sleuths to see what they think of your sneaky tactics...

Nov 11, 2011 02:08 AM
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Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Yeah the something different stumped me also. I've never lived in a house or neighborhood that didn't have the mailbox under a roof. My home in Sunnyvale, CA had a slot in the garage wall for mail that was deposited in a box safe from mail thieves. My box here in Little Rock is large and lockable and near the front door. I guess that dates my homes.

Our kids in the Dallas, TX area have to go to a mailbox farm a block away. I remember Harold has to pick up his mail from boxes located several blocks away. Bummer!

Incidently, our mail held in the post office while we were away for 2 weeks was lost. Our carrier said he saw the box on a Friday and it was gone the next day.

Nov 11, 2011 04:19 AM
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Harold Gene Sullivan

This has nothing to do with Barbara's "sneaky" challenge today but a morning paper news-story reminded me.  Remember back when Nov 11 was Armistice Day or Poppy Day and everyone bought those little red paper poppies to wear in their lapels.  I think they funded activities for disabled veteran's and, sometimes, the Boy Scouts would help sell them on downtown streets. 

 

Harold Gene Sullivan

Nov 11, 2011 06:30 AM
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Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Anita, please don't poll the Sleuths.  I promise to be un-sneaky from now one.  : ) 

Don, when you really think about the mail delivery to the old neighborhoods, it really is sorta strange.  In Letona, I sold a house and it was in city limits.  They did not have any mail delivery.  They had to go to the post office and pick it up!!  That was also very strange.

Harold Gene, I remember seeing people with the poppies.  Wonder what happened?  But they could have been out today and I just didn't see them since I was not in any stores.

Nov 11, 2011 12:48 PM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Mail delivery to the door has some social benefits also. I often talk with our mailman when he delivers. He lives about 40 miles from Little Rock so he has quite a commute plus he drives his route. 

Nov 12, 2011 04:45 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Don, you are right.  Do you read Bumstead, the comic strip?  Dagwood always visits with his mail man.  It's a great relationship.

Nov 12, 2011 07:59 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Mary, you make a good point.  If I have to track down a foreclosure listing, I can find out from the post person (that must now be politically correct....not longer mailman) how long it has been empty.

Nov 12, 2011 12:09 PM
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