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searcy ar: Mushroom supreme! The giant mushroom in Searcy AR! - 07/07/17 05:38 PM

Now that is a mushroom! It is almost the size of a dinner plate and the arrangement on the mushroom plate is so elegant. It is growing right now in my front yard at an old cut-down tree site. It makes me wish that I could have had lessons from the one person that I have ever known who said she could tell which mushrooms are poisonous and which ones can be eaten safely.
Perhaps there is a lesson here? Perhaps I could google it and learn!
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searcy ar: Mail out 1993. New RE/MAX agent. Searcy AR. How things change! - 07/02/17 01:41 PM

Time does fly when you are having fun!
I found this old 1993 mailout that I did when I became an "Above the Crowd!" RE/MAX agent. I think it showed a lot of history. Note how it was when I began in 1979. Curlies and double knits were in and interest rates shot up to 17% and above. In 1993 the interest rates were as low as 6.95%!
What about now? Who would have thought interest rates would be between 3% and 4%? Who would have thought that most of the shopping for houses would be on the internet? Who would … (6 comments)

searcy ar: 1969. Huge hairdos. Short skirts. Big pigs! Heard's Sausage. - 06/26/17 11:34 AM

Be sure to read my other blog about Heard's Sausage. My kids and I thought the pigs were a sight to see and visited them when we visited Searcy AR to visit the kid's grandparents. Click here to read it. I did not realize at that time that I'd become a permanent resident of Searcy AR.
So when I looked through the 1969 Searcy High Yearbook I found this full-page ad for Heard's Sausage. I know that pretty girl standing beside the truck (remember I am now about a 50 year resident of Searcy and have met lots of people) and she … (10 comments)

searcy ar: Good news! 600 W Race, Shoffner house, being restored? We hope. - 06/23/17 09:50 AM

It was another driving-by experience. Look!! The historic home at 600 W. Race that is known as the Shoffner House and is very old had something going on. Trees had been trimmed, a fence taken down and the character of the old home came flying through. There was even a man on the roof! Looks as if is being restored! Here's a blog about the house that I did a few months ago as an auction was being performed there. Click here to read it and see pictures. The property looks so historic and so alive right now that I and … (2 comments)

searcy ar: Happy couple. New house? Ballard & Gertrude Holmes, Searcy AR - 06/12/17 04:29 AM

Had they just finished the old house on Holmes Road that we have written several blogs about? The house is in the background and they look very happy and pleased as they have this picture snapped.
The old rock house still stands and we have done several blogs about it. Click here to go to the last one and that one will have a click to continue going back. The present owners invited the remaining family members to come and visit the beloved old family home and a few days ago several folks got to review the house. Thanks again to … (2 comments)

searcy ar: 100 year old house revisited (continued) Holmes Rd Searcy AR - 06/08/17 07:36 AM

This picture may not be the very best but it was taken a long time ago at the still existing house that was built by Ballard Holmes about 100 years ago. Present owners invited the Holmes family to visit the old house this week and it was a lovely visit. The house is still delightful to see. This shows the house with three of the children sitting on the stone wall. Click here to revisit the kids.
Here is the way the side of the house looks now.
It looks the same with the addition of central heat and air and energy efficient windows … (4 comments)

searcy ar: Little kids grown up. Holmes House Searcy Ar revisited. - 06/07/17 01:55 PM

Look at these cute kids but also look at the old house in the background. This picture was made when the Ballard Holmes family lived there. They built it and everyone loved it. It is, in fact, still loved now by the present owners who invited the now slightly older family members to come and visit.
The family jumped at the opportunity and the visit was delightful. I was able to take a picture of four of the above kids standing on the front porch of the old house. For fun, see if you can match them with the pictures above. One … (2 comments)

searcy ar: Quick! Don't look closely! What are these kids doing? - 05/22/17 01:19 PM

OK! Quickly! What are these students doing? The first thing I thought of was cell phones! They appear to be checking their messages, checking email, paying no attention to their friends except with their phones! Sure looks that way.....even though it was 1969 and they were posing for the Searcy Lion yearbook, it made me think of today!
Actually, I assume they got free treats of ice cream or milk. Styles were different and things never stay the same. Some clever photoshop expert could just change cups to phones and put leggings on the girls and we'd be current! Perhaps Super Sleuth … (13 comments)

searcy ar: Van's Cottages Searcy AR 1953 Harding College. Where? - 05/21/17 06:39 AM

*************************************************************************************************Here's another Searcy mystery location that you might solve. It seems that in the old year books the advertisers felt they needed no addresses. Folks would know where they were located forever. Not so. In the 1953 Petit Jean, Harding College's yearbook, this ad popped up. But it does not say anything about location, phone numbers, or number of cottages. They appear to have little carports for the vehicles. So, Sleuths, let us know where these little Van's Cottages were and what happened to them. … (6 comments)

searcy ar: The Wheat Motel, Searcy AR, E Race St, The Book Nook. - 05/14/17 11:35 AM

Just a few days ago I ran a blog about the Wheat Motel in Searcy AR. Its picture was on an old postcard that I bought on ebay. There was a lot of discussion about it and the final decision regarding where it had been located was made by a comment from the former owner's son, Bill Mondigo. (Thank you again, Bill.) Go back to this blog and read the comments and see the picture.
Now look what I have found! Folks kept mentioning The Book Nook and here is a picture of the motel as changed and with a section rented … (2 comments)

searcy ar: A different ad. Wallace Spencer's 5th grade. 1969 McRae Searcy AR - 05/05/17 10:39 AM

I love looking at the ads in the old yearbooks. I came across this one and don't remember seeing any others like this one. It says,"Congratulations, to the Graduating Class of 1969 from the Graduating Class of 1976." Wallace Spencer's 5th grade class at McRae Elementary School in Searcy AR sponsored the ad.
My understanding is that the ads are paid for by businesses or individuals who insert them so I can't help wondering whether the teacher paid for it or whether the kids went out and raised money for it. It is an interesting look at history. The girls all … (5 comments)

searcy ar: Wheat Motel Searcy AR. Old Postcard. Hwy 64-67 ByPass. - 04/25/17 12:18 PM

This old postcard shows the Wheat Motel in Searcy AR. I do not remember this motel at all so some of you Sleuths will have to tell me where it was. The address was Hwy 64-67 Bypass in Searcy AR but where was that many years ago? It looks as if it had carports?
The back of the card brags that it had air-conditioning and panel ray heat, free T.V., room phones, free coffee, tile showers. "Just plain old-fashioned comfort." Pat & Mary Wheat, Owners & Operators. Call CH 5-4661.
It was never mailed. Who can tell us about it? And about … (12 comments)

searcy ar: Artists and houses. John E Keller. Searcy AR. Griffithville AR. - 04/21/17 08:18 AM

Super Sleuth Anita Hart Fuller shared this picture with me because she said it was the home of her childhood friend Alice Anne O'Donell who lived at Griffithville AR, a small town several miles from Searcy AR. This one is just a photograph of the original watercolor painting done by John E Keller, a very successful artist in Searcy. Anita had it done and presented the original painting as a gift to her friend. The date signed by Mr. Keller is 1993.

The question might be why? Why did Anita commission this painting? We have the answer to that question! Anita … (13 comments)

searcy ar: A Rock Fountain. My first. Toured in lovely house yard. Searcy AR. - 04/14/17 11:33 AM

We were visiting houses on our weekly tour of new listings. The house was expensive, custom built, and in a lovely area of Searcy AR. I expected everything to be perfect, which it was but I was especially impressed with this rock that was in a flower bed in front of the house. Notice it has a hole in it and water is coming out!
It just looked like a rock.....
Someone had done a clever job of putting a fountain, hidden, into the rock so that it spouted water all the time. They put rocks over the operating mechanisms so you … (10 comments)

searcy ar: Down memory lane. Quattlebaum Music Center. Vinyl records. Searcy AR - 04/02/17 05:46 PM

Did you ever do this? Did you visit the record store and thumb through dozens of vinyl albums looking for your favorites? I suspect you did and you did it with the same enthusiasm that young people of today embrace their smart phones. This picture was in a 1978 yearbook from Searcy AR. It was taken to advertise Quattlebaum Music Center in downtown Searcy. The students would visit the advertisers and have their pictures taken while they were smiling at the camera. Not this one! The students appear to have become infatuated with the record search and forgot the camera!
And! … (3 comments)

searcy ar: Find a need and fill it! The way to success? Perhaps! - 03/28/17 05:48 PM

Have you always heard this phrase? Find a need and fill it!
Our small town of Searcy AR with a population of perhaps 22,500 has a need. We have several auction companies who successfully come to your property and conduct an auction that rids you of all the property that needs to be sold. But some people think that is rather impersonal. They'd like their precious things to be priced, and studied, and appreciated with lots of buyers.
So.....our little town needs an estate sale expert! The expert works for days and days sorting and pricing and loving the loved-ones property. She/he falls … (4 comments)

searcy ar: A beautiful head adornment....although a surprise and unwanted. - 03/19/17 11:45 AM

I was just visiting with my friend/neighbor and wonderful artist, Phyllis Alexander, and got surprised.
We were talking about her new project of making paper dolls ( a coming blog) so that kids can remember how earlier kids found entertainment. I did notice and commented on a pretty bird sitting in the door of the cage and trying to interupt my conversation with Phyllis.
All of a sudden the bird left its perch and found a new one....right on the top of my head! I was stunned and Phyllis was laughing her head off and the bird just sat there. I leaned over … (8 comments)

searcy ar: Historic homes at Bald Knob AR circa 1919 multi-view postcard. - 03/13/17 06:06 AM

This postcard shows pictures of important homes in Bald Knob AR approximately 1919. This is the first multi-view postcard that I have seen. We know that at least one of these homes is still standing. Sleuths from Bald Knob should be able to give us the addresses of ones remaining.
Names that are readable are J W Roetzel, Dr. J C Cleveland, J J Campbell, J W Cranford, A P Moody, W A W Price, J W Roetzel (second time), R H Upchurch and what looks like E R Wynn.
It is an excellent glance back close to 100 years ago!
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searcy ar: Remember when Headlee's Drugstore looked like this? - 03/10/17 07:48 AM

Today this corner of Spring and Market holds White County Title and beside it will be the newly redone Robbins Sanford Grand Hall in Searcy AR. So how many of you remember when the corner held Headlee Drug and looked like this? Seems that it was made to have a western look with old boards and shingles.
This picture was taken from a 1978 Searcy High School yearbook. I definitely remember that so many people would go to the drug store each morning for a cup of coffee and a lot of "catchin' up."
And while you are remembering, notice the parking … (8 comments)

searcy ar: Wallace Fruit Market, Bald Knob AR, historic postcard - 02/28/17 04:35 PM

I guess I should have bought this old post card showing the Wallace Roadside Market in Bald Knob AR. I did bid on it while it was on ebay but someone else really wanted it more than I did and it is gone. But here is a picture of the front and of the address side. Sounds as if it was an interesting place one mile west of Bald Knob on Highways 67 and 64.
Sounds also as if they had imported gifts, fruits and vegetables, souvenirs, pottery, hand-blown glass and native sorghum and honey. Also ciders and exotic foods. Owners were … (4 comments)

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