Here's another treasure from the old picture stack of Searcy Arkansas White County photos. It's an old filling station with two young boy scouts and two adults. The boys are holding a tire and an inner tube that may require repairs. Do you remember tires with inner tubes that had to be taken out and repaired? I remember people talking about tubeless tires as if they were some miracle. I guess they were. My friend, who supplied the photo, has this to say about it.
Here is everything you want to know about the picture but were afraid to ask: It is taken at the Friendly Esso station: Spring and Pleasure St. Phone # 911. (the other Esso station in Searcy was 99 Esso, across the street from the Rendezvous Cafe, phone #99.
The older man is my uncle Jack Harrison, owner of the station. The other man is Jim Robbins (Benson's bro.) and I'm not sure WHY he was there, he may have been station manager. The boys are Billy Cook and Nelson James.....they are collecting old tires for a Boy Scout project, something for the war effort, I'm sure. this picture was taken before 1945, maybe a lot earlier.
Uncle Jack was killed in the war, in l945. Billy Cook is the son of W.B. Cook, owner of The Economy Market, prominent groc. store in Searcy. Their "rival" groc. store was The Sanitary Market. Bill went on to become high in The National Guard, and his unit from Searcy was the one that escorted the Little Rock Nine to and from school.
I love, and I hope your readers do to, the sign that says "when green light is on, the bathrooms are clean" or something to that effect.
Thanks, Anita, for letting us use this photo.
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