Captivating, isn't it? At times you see something that just grabs you. That is the way I was with this old portrait of a Searcy boy who passed away a few months ago. At the very bottom right it looks as if it is noted as 7 years old and then above that it definitely says Mitchell- E Smith......possibly the person who took the picture and then did a bit of hand-tinting for embellishment? The handsome young boy was Jody Taylor and his daughter let me borrow this picture for this blog. It was not framed and appears to have had some neglected (6 comments)
Jody's new car? Here's another great old snapshot that was loaned to me with permission to share on this blog. The writing was underneath the scanned photo and tells who was there......even down to the dog's name. But we don't know who owned the dog! Jody Taylor, so it says, was home from the Air Force and got himself a new car. I assume the car on the left was it. My understanding is that he and Anita Hart lived across the street from each other on West Arch Street in Searcy. Note the street had a sidewalk! I hate that eventually builders (8 comments)