remax advantage realtors: Half a house becomes no house. 407 E Vine Searcy AR
- 11/27/21 06:05 AM
Another house gone.
I wasn't surprised when I drove by this house a few days ago and saw that it was being taken down. It has been in bad condition for a long time.....probably not livable. But it was the subject of a blog or two because of its rumored history. The address is 407 E Vine and it was once a part of the house on the West side of it (410 N Oak) thus I called it half a house.
The bigger part of the house is in beautiful condition and when they were originally combined the two were located facing … (2 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Suntana Sun Studio. White County Record. El Charro. Searcy AR. Tanning
- 11/19/21 06:42 AM
1980 Ad Judsonia White County Record
Who remembers "tanning?" I do. And not so pleasantly because I never tanned well and I'd see all my friends sitting in the sun getting wonderful tans. Then along came these things shown above in the picture in the ad. I don't remember ever using them but lots of people did. Then along came "spray tanning," a new easy adventure. I only know about this because of my commenting on someone's lovely tan and the person with me said, "Oh, she gets a spray tan." What! Another new way to receive a tan? There may be … (2 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Mayfair Hotel Searcy AR revisited! So historic! Almost 100 yrs old.
- 10/25/21 01:48 PM
Historic Mayfair Hotel in Searcy AR is almost 100 years old.
And I had the pleasure of a short guided tour today. The picture above shows the Mayfair as it is today. The town has grown up around it and its charm is still there. I have done several blogs about it in the past. I'll try to list some of them at the bottom of this blog so be sure to pull them up and read the comments. Searcy Sleuths always provide so much information.
This small sign was in the owner's office and he reported that it has been there since … (1 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Memories? White County Girls' Basketball Tournament programs for sale
- 10/17/21 08:05 AM
Memories! You want memories! We have found them!
Let's assume you went to school in White County AR sometime from about 1950 to 1974. W. E. Orr, from Judsonia, was instrumental in beginning and continuing a White County Girls' Basketball Tournament during those years. It was called "The South's Most Spectacular Cage Tournament" with a new program made up each year.
His daughter, Fonda McCarty, has a wealth of not-used and saved programs from those years. Go right now to That's Judsonia on facebook and find her comment and pictures about the programs. Click here. She is selling the old memory books … (2 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Black House, Searcy AR, Historic home on Historic Register.
- 10/11/21 11:54 AM
Benjamin Clayton Black House in Searcy AR
Found! Another old newspaper clipping that has interesting history about the house. Problem? No date.
Solution? I checked Google to see when it was placed on the Historic Register and found that it was done on 11-20-1974. That still does not date the article but helps with reading it. And please do read it. It gives some history about the Benjamin Clayton Black family. Once your interest has been revived, travel to the house and visit it. It is now our art gallery and is open certain hours, owned by the city and needs attention. For … (2 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: FOUND! Antique tool, hammer, weapon! Found at my own house.
- 10/02/21 07:37 AM
Homemade Hammer? Weapon?
I stumbled across this the other day at my own home! Has it been here forever? Did it come from one of my daughter's estate sales? A gift from above for my protection? I don't know but it is definitely interesting. It is definitely made by hand by some person who needed a tool.
It looks old and weathered and perhaps the scraped bark was to keep the hand of the user from bruising. Looks like a tiny hole with perhaps a nail to keep the handle secure is on both sides.
Searcy Sleuths may be able to add info.........
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remax advantage realtors: J. D. Phillips & Son, Silver Dining Car, Legion Hut, Searcy AR parade
- 09/28/21 11:48 AM
Silver Dining Car in Background
A few days ago we did a blog with a picture of a 1940's parade in Searcy AR. In the background of that blog (click to see) were some old buildings that included our still existing Legion Hut and two other businesses. This picture shows the buildings in better detail. You can see the shorter one and it is called Silver Dining Car, Ralph's Place. It was so like one that was in another blog that we need to show it to you also. Click here to see it. In it we see Corinne Hart and her … (0 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Kerr-Booth home in Searcy AR has a new look! Lovely!
- 09/26/21 01:33 PM
1890 Built Kerr-Booth home on West Center
It is worth a drive by to see the new look of a Searcy AR historic home. The home is located at 611 W Center and sold recently. It is on the Historic Register of Homes and is Victorian in style, located on a shaded (as this picture shows) corner with a big porch and a sidewalk. Modern houses may not need huge porches but they could sure use more sidewalks in our subdivisions.
Lots more pictures and information can be found at facebook Kerr-Booth House. Try going there. https://www.facebook.com/611WestCenter/
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remax advantage realtors: Chubbys Sandwich Shop? Remember? Searcy AR on E Race.
- 09/22/21 10:22 AM
Chubbys Sandwich Shop
Who remembers this? Chubbys Sandwich Shop, with address of 2801 E Race, Searcy AR. This advertisement was in the 1978 Harding College yearbook and I don't remember it.
I checked to see what is located there today. The location is at the entrance to Cloverdale Subdivision and now has First Community Bank on the corner.
It looks interesting so do any of you Searcy Sleuths remember it or anything about it?
P. S. Are you aware of the huge controversy going on right now regarding the sign on S Main welcoming folks to Obecity USA? The name Chubbys might not be a … (0 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Miss Mystery. 1954. Who was she? Rules of game. Basketball Tournament.
- 09/14/21 11:28 AM
1954 Basketball Tournament Fun Contest!
I have been given several tournament programs from the 1950's in White County AR by Pat Holloway, a friend from way back. They were of girl's tournaments that were very popular before some no-fun characters cut out all girl's sports! (Don't get me started on that!) We had no girl's basketball until Title IX changed that.
Glancing through them, I saw this unusual page and thought how much fun this would have been. I can't offer a prize but I will say that Miss Mystery still lives in Searcy and is actually giving me permission to share this. … (10 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: 9/11. Remember what you were doing when the news came on the TV?
- 09/10/21 01:20 PM
The Awful Day.....9/11
It was an awful day and I'll bet you are the same as I am, remembering exactly what you were doing when the news came to us.
I was at our real estate office, in the workroom with an appraiser from another city, checking on a house he was coming to appraise. I remember the house and the family who was letting me list it. I remember the absolute shocked look on his face. I remember everyone gathering around the TV trying to find out what was next. As the news got worse and worse, we wondered if we had … (3 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Porter Rodgers Hospital. Woodruff St. Searcy AR. Historic photograph.
- 09/07/21 10:19 AM
Early Porter Rodgers Hospital was on Woodruff Street.
Here's a good picture of the old historic hospital that was named Porter Rodgers Hospital. You can see the sign nicely. It was on Woodruff Street in Searcy AR. It appears to have been raining when the picture was taken. History seems to say that the hospital started out as Wakenight Sanitarium and was built in 1920. Dr. Rodgers bought it in 1943 and renamed it.
In 1947 a big addition was made to the hospital and brought rooms up to 50 or more. This picture seems to show where a driveway had been and … (4 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Parade Searcy AR. Legion Hut Court House Old vehicles Brick streets
- 08/30/21 11:48 AM
Shriner's Parade in 1940's
This is a great old picture from the 40's and loaned to me by Sherry Quattlebaum Person, whose father saved lots of historic documents. If it were larger the detail would show much better. You could read J. D. Phillips & Son on the store in the background. Beside it is the Silver Dining Car. Then we have the American Legion Hut which has been in the news lately because it is being revived with a new roof and other repairs. The Legion Hut was built in 1939 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in … (4 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Remember the Watkins Man? From 1868 till now. Sales door-to-door man.
- 08/24/21 12:53 PM
The Watkins Man?
"Mom, here comes the Watkin man!!" Do any of you remember the old Watkins Man who was one of the first door-to-door sales persons. The Watkins man journeyed through the back roads of our country beginning in 1868 by horse and wagon and later by automobile. I do vaguely remember someone coming by our old country house and he had a lot of things to sell but we did not have much money to buy. I think my mother would want the Vanilla Extract and the liniment, two of their best sellers. The liniment was made of a mixture … (5 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Not acceptable today! Ad from 1967 Mechanix Illustrated. Wives fun ad.
- 08/20/21 10:31 AM
Hard to believe!
While browsing through an old 1967 Mechanix Illustrated magazine, we found this ad by AT&T! Not only this one but several others from other companies which poked fun at wives. I think what might have been funny then is no longer funny. Wives are hard-working now and would have been then. How times have changed!
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remax advantage realtors: Girls from Searcy AR. Historic photo. The Way We Were.
- 08/18/21 10:25 AM
This "The Way We Were" photograph shows young girls gathered for a picture taking. Searcy Daily Citizen once had a feature called The Way We Were and published lots of older photographs of folks around Searcy AR. A family member clipped and saved SO many of the articles that I am having fun looking through them. This one has no date but goes back a long time. Read the names and you'll remember several of the girls. I now need to do a drive-by and see if the house is still there.
And here it is! The records say this was the … (2 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Are your relatives here? 1929 Searcy AR High School graduates.
- 08/16/21 11:33 AM
Check all these names and see if you find a relative.
In this May 27, 1979 Searcy Citizen article and photograph names are printed and you might find a close relative. They were to hold a class reunion. I think they are a pretty handsome looking group. Check them out.
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remax advantage realtors: Smith-Vaughan Mercantile Co Searcy AR Phone 1
- 08/12/21 10:24 AM
Here's a picture of the original Smith-Vaughan store in Searcy AR. I love the picture of the lady hurrying across the street with her package.
This location was at the corner of Spruce and Arch where Sowell's Furniture is now located. It still has the corner door entry which was evidently popular way-back-then.
The question for Searcy Sleuths is whether the phone for this store was truly 1, the number one. That is what is on the ad and what motivated me to write this blog.
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remax advantage realtors: Remember Ben Franklin, parking meters, and old Searcy AR from 50's.
- 08/04/21 07:48 AM
Remember Ben Franklin?
This old postcard on ebay brings back memories. There in the middle of the block stands the Ben Franklin store and then somewhere around the block was the Sterling's store. Were they both what we called "Dime" stores back then? I believe the store to the left of Ben Franklin's was a shoe store and there's Security Bank on the corner. Cars were colorful then vs. ones today.
The old parking meters do bring back memories. Wasn't there a job for a person to go around and mark how long a vehicle had been parked? You could get a ticket!
Now … (5 comments)
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remax advantage realtors: Stark! Description for Booth Rd building. Beautiful. Searcy AR.
- 07/31/21 12:02 PM
Stark! Beautifully unadorned building in Searcy AR.
Driving along Booth Road might lead you past this building and you can't help staring and admiring it. It can only be described as STARK. Extremely simple. Sternly plain. It is always perfectly maintained with the property mowed but it has no landscaping
So I did a little sleuthing. I found that it was moved onto the property from the pumping station. Our "pumping station" is located on Highway 267 in Searcy but there is reportedly one in Georgetown also. The person who moved it had been transferred to our town to work at the pumping … (1 comments)
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