realtor: Juxtaposition. What a word! Now I can almost see how it can be used.
- 07/02/11 07:27 AM
Driving down a street in Searcy brought me to this interesting site of an old house being torn down? Or built up? Partly torn down and part of the old being used again?
It was a puzzle but when I saw the juxtapositioning of the old wood and the new wood panels, I understood what the word means. Compare the old wood inside the old walls of this house with the pressed wood new stuff.
The boards were real boards, perhaps reused if you consider the paint on some of them. Furthermore, I'll bet that paint has lead in it! The house was … (8 comments)
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realtor: The revenge of the trees? Another tree on house in Searcy Arkansas.
- 06/28/11 11:26 AM
I've had several blogs that showed the damage a tree will do to a house.....and it is not even during a tornado. The limbs just decide to go down and a house is not strong enough to withstand the blow.
Here's what we found in Searcy Arkansas today. The house is right beside our Searcy Board of REALTORS office on East Vine Street so lots of folks saw the damage.
The tree still stands tall and proud. I wonder if the folks will take it down to avoid another damaging limbfall. Hopefully, no one was hurt in the … (16 comments)
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realtor: 1948 picture of a school in White County Arkansas. Kensett Arkansas School.
- 06/22/11 01:49 PM
FOUND!
NEAT OLD PICTURE OF A SCHOOL DATED 1948.
It is a neat old building that has the location and the date on the back. It was in one of those little wood frames that someone a few years back had used to frame old copies of pictures and had them for sale at some store. Mother-in-law found one with a picture of her husband's father and brothers lined up on a board. I have blogged it.
She was able to buy one for each family member. I found one of the ruins of Judsonia from the tornado in 1952 … (17 comments)
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realtor: "Open" sign to be no more. Frances's Antiques in Searcy AR closes its doors.
- 06/19/11 07:58 AM
This antique store has been located at 701 West Race for as many years as I can remember. Frances and A.D. Dale lived next door to the shop. The building had a second floor and they added two other buildings to hold their many antiques.
They were always gracious and made you feel good when you stopped by to visit. My house has a lot of furnishings from their store. I liked the way they refinished the furniture so that it looked like new "old" stuff. They were also willing to refinish the pieces you might buy somewhere else and bring by.
An auction … (8 comments)
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realtor: Reblogging Don Thompson's blog about Searcy Arkansas Sanitary Plumbing and Electric Company.
- 06/17/11 03:10 PM
My blog buddy, Don Thompson, put this wonderful old picture on his blog. Here's what he wrote. It is one of the clearest pictures that I've seen of old Searcy Arkansas. He'll probably have to tell us more about the Black Cat Cafe. Sounds like a Honkey Tonk to me.
Look at that dirt street and the new concrete sidewalk. This must be in the early 1900s.
It stood on the corner of Market and Spruce Streets near the Black Cat Cafe.
This picture was posted on Main Street Searcy facebook June 10, 2011.
And, you know what? That building … (20 comments)
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realtor: Another chomp and another chunk of Searcy AR is gone. Where is this one, folks?
- 06/15/11 09:29 AM
You like guessing games? Yes, Searcy Sleuths who live elsewhere like to figure out where the things "used to be" in Searcy Arkansas.
While driving by today, I came upon this ugly, vicious machine tearing down another structure. The ones who have to tear the building down don't look upon it as a vicious machine, however. They consider it a work-saver, and it is.
I anticipated this building coming down so I took pictures of "before." However, because you need something to challenge you, tell me where it is from this one. Then I'll post the before ones.
Seary Sleuths, … (11 comments)
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realtor: How does this thing work? Waste....written on top of the drain for this old footed tub?
- 06/14/11 03:18 PM
I've seen footed tubs lots of times. Most of the time they've been fitted with new plumbing and the main attraction is the feet. Sorta like this.
But this old tub had plumbing that I didn't understand. I just had to take a better shot at the fixtures.
Waste? Why did that thing say waste and what did it do? Looks like great old copper or brass fixtures that probably date back to the early 1900's. I took another shot.
That's funny. Activerain just turns my picture on the side? And I tried to put it on two times. … (7 comments)
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realtor: Baldock House at corner of Elm and Woodruff now for sale! 1910 Vernacular on National Register of Historic Places.
- 06/07/11 02:15 PM
This is one fine old home in Searcy Arkansas. If you drool over the old mansions you should like this one. It has a prestigious look from the street. A few months ago I did a blog about a tree that fell on the house. Visit that blog and then you'll know that the roof has been recently done!
Here's the house, all fixed up and ready for a new buyer. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is called the Baldock House, a 1910 vernacular brick house. It was purchased in the 90's by a … (15 comments)
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realtor: Another completed mural in downtown Searcy AR. Done by Harding University.
- 06/03/11 09:39 AM
A few weeks ago I did a blog bragging about the murals that are on the side of a building on Spring Street in downtown Searcy Arkansas. Here's the blog. Go back and review that blog.
Now they have finished another one. It's in my favorite color....blue. This one seems to be publicizing ASU, Arkansas State University, along with Harding University. The mural is done by Harding University so it shows our comraderie in our little town. I think they are all lovely.
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realtor: What I learn from my Activerain friends and blog readers. Free visit to Coolidge GA.
- 05/30/11 04:54 AM
One of my new-found blog friends who grew up in Searcy Arkansas read a comment from me that said I was raised in Coolidge Georgia so therefore I didn't know everything and everybody who used to live in Searcy.
I found something in the mail a few days later. Jim Bohannon, who grew up in Searcy, had send me a 1920's map of Coolidge Georgia. He very tactfully suggested that I was surely not around in 1920 but most little towns changed very little from year to year.
I studied that map and my memories came flowing back. I decided to see if … (11 comments)
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realtor: The way it used to be in Searcy Arkansas, right on the fringe of town. 1600 W Pleasure.
- 05/26/11 01:44 PM
You think we have cookie-cutter houses today and they are all basically the same? Possibly so.
But it has always been that way. Style is style, whether you're talking about clothing or cars or houses. It was the style once to build houses like this one.
How many of these have you seen around town and most of them are just about worn out. I have to plead guilty to having put this one away to pasture. I tore it down. It is not satisfying to be a slumlord and when a house becomes so bad that no one can comfortably … (34 comments)
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realtor: A new look on East Race Street to an old building in Searcy AR.
- 05/23/11 01:13 PM
This building was so old and the real estate company that had been there had closed. We no longer have a Century 21 in Searcy Arkansas. I really thought the building would be torn down. The picture below looks good (made by the google man) but after the real estate company closed it went down further and further. Too bad I didn't take a picture just before it sold and started a new life.
Now when you drive by you see this magnificent front. It is impressive to see what the new owners have done. I'm not sure I like … (6 comments)
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realtor: Architectural genius or just slinging dirt around? REO palace for birds.
- 05/22/11 07:13 AM
REO (foreclosure properties) homes always offer surprises. This particular one had the front door guarded by a bunch of flying screeching birds that didn't appreciate my trespassing near their home. I had to see what they were so proud of. Here's what I saw.
I took this closeup because I was really impressed with the bird's house. If there were babies inside they were very quiet and not visible. Look at the layers of this house. They appeared to have selected different colors of dirt just to have a nicely painted house. Deliberate? Genius birds? It … (7 comments)
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realtor: Still another one bites the dust. Searcy old home goes the way of progress.
- 05/18/11 07:33 AM
I did my double-take a few months ago and wrote about it on this blog. Driving down a Searcy Street and seeing the remains of a home, perhaps historic or perhaps not, but part of old Searcy Arkansas anyhow, is always a head spinner.
Today it happened again. On Race Street one of the cutest little white cottages was gone except for this scene.
Is that the back door or the front door? We must check with the googleman to see what used to be.
This little cutie was located right beside the house that was in the earlier … (15 comments)
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realtor: Please explain this ad. I just can't get it! Pawn shop advertisement.
- 05/16/11 02:58 PM
I was just reading the Sunday paper and saw this Charlie Sheen lookin' feller in this ad in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette newspaper.
I looked at it.
I looked again.
I studied it. I passed it over to Hubby and said, "Can you tell me what this ad is saying?"
He handed it back and said, "#$@^&# if I know."
I saved it for daughter, who has a newspaper background and an advertising background and she said I can't figure it out.
So, Sleuths, it is up to you. What is this ad saying to me? Why don't I get it?
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realtor: Evolution of downtown Arch Street, Searcy Arkansas via postcard history.
- 05/13/11 04:26 PM
Old postcards are so educational. My collection seems to show the evolution of Arch Street on the court square. Look at this one that dates to way way back. Look at the third building from the left, just after Baugh's Drug Store. It is red brick, isn't it.... and has architecture a lot like the first building on the left.
Now look at this one dated somewhere around 1912. Look at the same building. It must have been given a fresh coat of light paint. But the architectural detail is still there and it sure looks like the first building.
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realtor: Arkansas used to have the best strawberries in the world. Lots of pickers were required.
- 05/09/11 03:09 PM
Strawberries are ripe right now around Searcy Arkansas. Driving from Searcy Arkansas to Bald Knob Arkansas (which used to be called the strawberry capital of the world) along the old highway will possibly find lots of people with freshly-picked strawberries for sale.
They're pretty expensive this year, probably about $4 a quart. Folks who have a wild desire for strawberries are going to have to pay dearly.
An old family diary indicated that the teenage girl and two of her friends were going to McRae to stay at the home of a family and pick berries. They stayed a few days and didn't … (19 comments)
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realtor: Ghost architecture in Searcy Arkansas. Makes you wonder what it once looked like.
- 05/06/11 03:06 PM
My blog buddy, Anita, once had me distracted by looking for "ghost signs" which were old signs painted on brick buildings. We blogged a few of those.
While downtown in Searcy Arkansas I looked up from my parking space and saw "ghost architecture."
Yes, that's a good name for it. These brick buildings have been renovated but there are signs of the past all over them.
I wonder whether we could get someone who is an expert with Photoshop who could give us the original view of these buildings. They liked curves!!
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realtor: Mothers and babies from Searcy Arkansas. Now this is a really sweet blog!!
- 05/03/11 01:46 PM
Friends forwarded this magnificent picture of mothers and babies. They don't know, unless the Sleuths can find answers, who most of the folks are.
Identified on the back row from left are Florence and Lee Biggs, Freda and Burney Lightle, Rosamond and Joe Yingling, unidentified, and then Lucy and Mary Ann Morris. In the middle of the front row Tom Headlee and his mother.
Interesting things are the shoe styles. Three of the front moms have almost identical shoes. Also interesting is how healthy and hefty those babies were! And how happy all the mothers appear. Tell us who the … (12 comments)
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realtor: Center on the Square's Cocktails and Cabaret... Searcy Arkansas, night out at Rosehaven.
- 05/01/11 02:17 PM
Rosehaven. The invitation said that Center on the Square, our downtown dinner theater which has become so popular and successful, was having a fun night with music, an auction, food and drinks, and presentation of awards. It was to be at Rosehaven.
That was a new name for me. Sounded like a plantation house so I definitely wanted to attend.
And it was a plantation-type house. Within city limits, this house that was first built in the 1800's and added onto a little at a time has become a mansion.
Owners are Cathy Liles and Randy Duncan. Here they are in the … (19 comments)
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Driving down a street in Searcy brought me to this interesting site of an old house being torn down? Or built up? Partly torn down and part of the old being used again?
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