These pictures seem to be a sequence of fun photos showing a boy and girl "horsing around" on a possible date long ago. They are dressed up so they must have been trying to impress each other. They have been identified by our Super Sleuth Mary Fraser Dunn as relatives of hers. ZL Fraser was her uncle and Marguerite Hughes became his wife. Here's what she says about the pictures.
"These pictures without a doubt are of Aunt Marguerite and Uncle ZL. I suspect they were taken before Uncle ZL went into service because he had a mustache when he returned from the Philippines. They were not married until he was home after WWII so they could have been just out of high school in these pictures. Both graduated from Searcy High School.
A possibility for the location is Bradford on the Pollard property (Grandmother Fraser's family home) which was directly behind the original Bradford school buildings. However, Marguerite's mother, Iller Hughes, didn't let Marguerite get very far away from her so they are probably closer to where the Hughes lived on South Spring St. But it could have been where my grandparents were living at that time on Mud Street (now East Woodruff). Remember at that time lots of Searcy was very rural.....farm animals in town, unpaved streets, outhouses, wells for water. In the last picture Aunt Marguerite is holding the pipe used to draw water out of a well.
Uncle ZL and Marguerite built Fraser Nursing Home around 1960, I think, and then sold it to Ralph Byrd and it became Byrd Haven. Prior to the nursing home Marguerite had worked for years and years at Sterlings. For most of his adult life Uncle ZL was a construction manager for the Jimmy Cone Construction Co. He spent weekdays away from home in whatever part of the state Cone had a commercial building under construction.
I don't know who the other young lady was."
Let's enjoy the pictures now and wonder if all the digital ones being made now will last as long as these have. If you know who the other lady is, tell us.
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