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Judsonia AR. Dirt streets photo.

Judsonia AR

Judsonia Arkansas was a thriving little town in 1952. This shows a picture of the streets much earlier than 1952 when they were dirt. I love seeing the old town photos. Judsonia is just about 5 miles from Searcy, our city of 20,000.

The saddest thing about Judsonia is that in 1952 a tornado came through and wiped the town out almost. About 50+ people were killed. The reports say that you couldn't tell where streets were because the damage was so bad. It was a terrible thing.

Now if you are selling property in Judsonia you'll find a storm cellar at almost every house. People who lived through the tornado are ghastly afraid of storms and watch the TV for news. One of my friends who as a child was blown a distance in the tornado and remembers it still has her cell phone set up to get a call from the weather station if things are threatening.

With the weather becoming more and more unpredictable, will there be more Judsonias?

Posted by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR on 07/01/2008 07:33 PM

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10 Comments on Judsonia AR. Dirt streets photo.

What a quaint photo with such a sad story attached. It is a little scary how Mother Nature has been lately.

All the best!

07/01/2008 08:20 PM

by Kevin O'Shea, White Plains, NY Real Estate (Homes of Westchester, Inc.)

Thanks, Kevin. Old pictures are so interesting. Story was bad, bad!!

07/01/2008 08:24 PM

by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR (RE/MAX Advantage)

Barbara, thanks, it's always interesting to hear these types of stories. too bad about the tornados. I recently read about a little town in westchester that was flooded (intentionally) to make a dam. my son asked me about it recently and wondered if the houses were still in tact and if we could scuba dive would we still see them.

07/01/2008 09:22 PM

by Peter Z. Nikic

Wow!!! Makes me feel like I just stepped back in time!

Thanks for the trip!

07/02/2008 07:12 AM

by Charles McDonald / Your Trusted Broker for Charlottesville Real Estate (RE/MAX Assured Property)

Peter, thanks for the comments. Your son is a thinker! Good boy.

Charles, thanks for enjoying the trip.

07/02/2008 07:37 AM

by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR (RE/MAX Advantage)

I still vividly remember standing across the street from one of the two local hospitals in Searcy (Hawkins Clinic Hospital) and watching as the tornado victims were brought in to the emergency room. They were in the backs of trucks, in cars - any conveyance that would get them there. It was still raining, but not hard rain. This was a 27 bed hospital. Another memory is seeing the wife of one of the doctors on staff (they just had 4) come to help. She was a nurse but did not work. She had on her white uniform and her navy blue wool cape with the red satin lining, one side of the cape flipped over her shoulder to show the red lining. Of course she also had on her nurses cap......I thought she was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. I later became a nurse...but never got the blue/red cape! I still have my cap, though. Every school has a different, distinctive cap.

Sorry to natter on so. Barbara, you need to stop envoking all these old memories, or I need to stop responding.

07/02/2008 07:41 AM

by Anita Fuller

Anita, you are a great responder!! I think I should take the descriptive paragraph and add it to the blog for all to read. I didn't know that about caps! Thanks for putting my blog plug in the Historical Society Newsletter!

07/02/2008 08:08 AM

by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR (RE/MAX Advantage)

Barbara,

Great post! My grandparents had a skating rink and grocery store and lost it all. That was a terrible storm and it affected so many lives.

07/02/2008 09:54 AM

by Mary PAUL, ABR, CRS,GRI, e-PRO, (RE/MAX Advantage Realtors, Searcy, AR)

Mary, thanks for telling us more about the tornado.

07/02/2008 12:47 PM

by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR (RE/MAX Advantage)

I remember storm cellars in AR in the summer. Those things are a good idea.

07/02/2008 01:16 PM

by Leslie Prest, Prest Realty, Payson, AZ

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