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Searcy Sleuths! Challenge.....who is this and where was he? Dick Hart. Searcy AR a long time ago.

By Barbara S. Duncan

Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

November 21, 2013 09:34 PM

A Super Sleuth from Searcy AR dialed my phone yesterday!

HA! Dialed? We have forgotten what the word means.

Buy, anyway, my phone rang and she demanded my response as to why we have had no blogs lately about her dear old town of Searcy. I told it like it was. I have been SO busy selling real estate and my sources of old photos has dried up and I thought that facebook has taken over the need for blogs.

She disagreed and so I found another picture to put up. Before telling who this is, I think the Sleuths need to let me know if they know! And they might know where he was!!

Man in store

And another thing the young folks of today won't know about....Polaroid cameras! This old photo is filled with memories!

Thanks to you, Super Sleuth Anita, for making me feel missed!

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Anita Fuller

Me, again: I"m sure Don will have the car identified by nightfall.

FYI: The Poloroid sign is advertising Poloroid sunglasses.....but in the day, I had a big old heavy Poloroid camera. You had to smear some solution across the picture to keep it from fading.

I failed to fully ID the man: Chief of Police J.C. "Dick" Hart.

Nov 22, 2013 12:49 AM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Barbara, I'm glad you are keeping busy selling Searcy by the yard. It's good to see a new blog with a great picture with store window to bring back memories of old Searcy town.

Taskmaster, Anita, has challenged me to ID the car. There aren't a lot of makes to choose from and the grill sure looks like the Buick so I'm thinking it is about a 1948 Buick before all the heavy chrome was added.

I'll see if I can get a picture in later.

Nov 22, 2013 01:58 AM

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Anita Fuller

I"m saying the car is a Nash. Having said that, I'm probably wrong: there weren't many Nashes in Searcy, but Bob's Aunt Ruth Fuller and her husband, John Fuller , had one.

Don will set me straight.

Nov 22, 2013 02:21 AM

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Mary Dunn

I don't even care about the photo. I have missed this sooooo much. I have felt that my main method of communication had been stopped.....something like having the power go out and not being able to watch tv or make a phone call. Please don't do it again, at least not without a formal announcement so we can be prepared.

BTW, I agree that it is Dick Hart but still trying to get my mind around identifying the building seen through the window.

Nov 22, 2013 03:20 AM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Anita, the 1949 Nash is indeed a possibility. Let's let the bloggers decide.

1949 Nash 1948 Buick

The 49 Nash was called a upside down bathtub. One of the Airmen in Germany in the mid 50's had one.

The German's got a kick out of it.

Nov 22, 2013 04:22 AM

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Harold Gene Sullivan

I see that Anita and Don has beat me to it. But, really, I immediately identified the man, location and car. Yes it is a Nash. I remember that the way it was designed, one seemed to be stepping down into it. I think the dealer was down by Spring Park where the shoe factory went in. Of course, any newbies will not even remember the shoe factory.

It is great to have some new activity on your blog, Barbara. How can you let something like selling houses interfer with something so important? :-) Thanks so much for giving us such a place to remember our growing up in a great place.

Harold Gene Sullivan

Nov 22, 2013 04:35 AM

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Anita Fuller

See, Barbara, I told you so! This blog is important to us Sleuths and Searcians of the good old days. Scratch around and find some more pics. or as you said, repost some.

It hit me that the Nash (thank you Gene.....and Don) just might have been the John Fullers but Bob says theirs was a sort of grape color, which would show up as dark in the picture.

Mary: "I fell your pain".

Nov 22, 2013 05:45 AM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Ya'll might have been curious about Amity, I was.

The Amity Director was a leather wallet with all sorts of pockets and hiding places.

Nov 22, 2013 08:42 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Thanks to you sleuths for making me feel welcome back on this blog.

I am behind, Anita, about Polaroid. I assumed it was a camera but they didn't have those cameras in Dick Hart's day and I did not know they made sunglasses!

And Don, thanks for the Amity ad. I assume billfolds were as treasured back then as iphones are now! And those car photos are beautiful.

The picture was of Dick Hart. Bridget Hart sent it to me a few weeks ago along with the one of the policemen that was so good.

Harold Gene and Mary, I have missed you two too!!

Nov 22, 2013 09:33 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Tell me something. They are not emailing comments to me. Are they emailing to you?

Nov 22, 2013 09:34 AM

David Shamansky

US Mortgages - David Shamansky - Highlands Ranch, CO

Creative, Aggressive & 560 FICO - OK, Colorado Mtg

Very nice post and glad you had a super sleuth! lol

Tell me what format is better than AR!?!?!?! NONE!

Nov 22, 2013 10:17 AM

Laura Cerrano

Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY

Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

Is that Woody Allen?

Love and light,

Laura

Nov 22, 2013 01:48 PM

Jane Chaulklin-Schott

TEAMCONNECT REALTY - (407) 394-9766 - Orlando, FL

TeamConnect Luxury Homes - Orlando, Florida, 32836

Brought back memories. Also, still have our old and clunky Polaroid.

Nov 22, 2013 02:50 PM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

David, it gets confusing. AR is Arkansas but AR is also activerain!!

Laura, close guess!

Jane, I have my old ones tucked away somewhere. If I live 100 years they may become collectible items worth lots of money!

Nov 22, 2013 08:40 PM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

I had a Polaroid camera and also a Kodak Instant camera. Polaroid sued Kodak for copyright infringement and Kodak had to discontinue making the cameras. I have many albums of Polaroid prints as I'm sure all of you who owned one also have. They have held up pretty well but are fading. Here's a polaroid pic from 1980 (33 years ago) of my first useful computer. There's a Televideo terminal for the keyboard and screen, 2 8" floppy drives, the CPU is in a card file sitting on the shelf, and the power supply is a 24" x 8" x 4" box sitting on floor. No hard drive! That's a printer above the terminal.

Boy, has technology come a long way!

The little blue framed sign attached to the CPU says " Caution, A Daddy at Work" created by my daughter.

Nov 23, 2013 12:25 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Don, technology has come a long way, YES! But the amazing thing is that you were in on it at the beginning. I'll bet you NONE of the rest of us had a computer 33 years ago....or even knew there was such a thing to have. My computer stuff started in about 1993. But, holy cow! That is 20 years ago!!!!!!!

Nov 23, 2013 08:10 AM

Anonymous

Harold Gene Sullivan

Barbara, you lost your bet that no one else had a computer 33 years ago. I bought my Apple II in 1978. I never had a "home brew" like Don's however. The early Apple II was next to it.

Nov 24, 2013 04:26 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Ok, Harold Gene, I lost the bet. My next bet is that you and Don are my most intellectual sleuths. 33 years ago and you had computers!! WOW!

Nov 24, 2013 06:12 AM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

I said my first useful computer was the one shown. My first computer was this one.