searcy ar: Before McDonald's there was Burger Barn in Searcy Arkansas.
- 06/27/10 01:28 PM
Anyone out there remember the old Burger Barn in Searcy Arkansas? Here's the picture from an old yearbook.
The amazing thing about old pictures of Searcy Arkansas is that they didn't have to give an exact address for the advertised business. Everyone just knew where it was. Therefore, the exact location of this one may have to be solved by readers who remember.
Hubby, however, swears that this building on East Race Street is the old Burger Barn.
P. S. I am not advertising tobacco....................
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searcy ar: Sleeping porches? Searcy Arkansas is hot but we have air conditioning now.
- 06/27/10 02:21 AM
My car says it is 104 degrees outside!
My car says it is 99 degrees outside!
My friend says we're having August weather right now in June. No one argues that it is not HOT, HOT, HOT in our neck of the woods.
So driving by these two houses in Searcy Arkansas reminds me that when they were built there was no air conditioning. These were sleeping porches.....or at least I have been told that they were. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
In this area nighttime does not bring a lot of relief from the heat so folks could climb … (19 comments)
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searcy ar: White House Cafe in Searcy Arkansas. It's been a long time since it was here.
- 06/24/10 07:21 AM
The newspaper had pictures on January 16, 1976 showing the White House Cafe being demolished.
Wright Landscaping Service dozers are waiting here to tear into the building. Wright Landscaping became Johnny Brock Landscaping when it was sold to Johnny Brock. A short time later we see this picture.
The newspaper goes on to show this lot with no building which was to become the home of a new $26,000 Continental-Trailways bus station. See final picture and newspaper explanation below. Now the lot is building free again. The bus station is gone and Harding University owns the lot and has … (20 comments)
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searcy ar: Please! Don't shoot! It's just me, the harmless real estate lady!!
- 06/19/10 02:34 PM
I've said before that you never know what you'll find when you get assigned an REO to go check out, change the locks and prepare for selling.
This week I found this guy. He was staring at me through the woods and I practically let out the words used in the title of this blog.
He looks as if he's going to shoot me! But he also looks as bug-eyed scared as I did.
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searcy ar: Karen Fuller. We call her one of our famous persons from Arkansas.
- 06/17/10 07:13 AM
Anita responds to my blogs a lot and takes a lot of teasing without getting angry. So I feel that it is time to brag on beautiful daughter, Karen Fuller, originally from Arkansas and now working in Kansas City.
Karen inherited all the great qualities from her mom and dad and became beloved in Arkansas when she was a news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock for about 5 years. She interviewed and visited with famous people. See her with President Clinton below.
And lest you think she's partial to Democrats, here she is in another picture with Laura … (9 comments)
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searcy ar: A new look for Searcy AR. Mexican restaurant really goes authentic. 301 E Race.
- 06/14/10 02:05 PM
Don't you love drive bys when you have to do a double take because of something new?
I do.
And I did.
Driving down East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas I had to look twice because construction of a new kind was going on at the 301 E Race location. It looked Hispanic or Adobe or something entirely new to our area.
This has been the location of a successful Mexican food restaurant for several years. It looked this way. I'm sorry that I had to walk with the Google man to get a picture and this time the picture … (17 comments)
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searcy ar: Searcy Arkansas letter sweater comes home. Do they still have these things?
- 06/10/10 01:24 PM
Due to the death of my husband's mother the family things are being sorted out and each child is taking things home. She was a dear woman and never threw anything away. Looking through her things is like a trip back in time.
My husband came home with this letter sweater that he found stuffed back in a closet.
Looking closely you can see it says Jr on the letter and looking even more closely you can see the mothholes. He says he just got a sweater as a Junior.
In our closets at home we already had this saved piece … (11 comments)
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searcy ar: Dairy Queen USA and Searcy Arkansas. What great treats they had!
- 06/07/10 01:42 PM
Look at these kids lined up for a Dairy Queen treat in Searcy Arkansas. This is another lifted picture from an old high school yearbook from the 50's. I didn't even try to count the little girls and boys. Definitely you could tell the girls because they had on dresses. I believe that dates back to girls being required to wear dresses or skirts unless the weather was below a certain freezing degree.
This Dairy Queen existed on Park Street in Searcy Arkansas and is still there but quite changed and empty. Dairy Queen was one of my favorite places to get … (24 comments)
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searcy ar: I can't believe I did that. Trying to be cheap just cost me a lot!!
- 06/05/10 03:06 PM
I'm embarrassed that I did this.
But if you do embarrassing things from time to time I'm telling this just to make you feel better.
My printer needs a new cartridge. It is still printing but it's having to be shaken every now and then to stir up the ink.
Amazon.com is a great place to order.....so easy....so fast.....so efficient.
So I went there and discovered that I could buy a generic cartridge for just $18.99. Shipping would not be free but ran $8 or $10 and would take about 5 or 7 days to come. That's a lot cheaper than … (25 comments)
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searcy ar: Another oldie. From Smith-Vaughn Mercantile to Sowell's Furniture. Searcy Arkansas.
- 06/04/10 01:30 AM
This old picture predates me and my short 40+ years in Searcy Arkansas.....I think. I didn't recognize where it was. Here's a picture lifted from some old high school annual. Look at the phone number! How'd they get # 1?
Hubby had to tell me where this location was and what is there now. Compare.
Sowell's, 207 W Arch, has just gone through an update and the outside looks great. How interesting, however, to see that someone covered up lots of glass. The corner entry to the store remains and note the sidewalk has been made handicapped accessible.
It's also … (19 comments)
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searcy ar: Country music is just funny! But I do have high class music friends.
- 06/02/10 08:46 AM
I tried. I tried and tried and tried to become a music lover....high class music lover, I mean.
My friend Anita can play the fiddle violin and had a mother who sent her to piano lessons. She's got class.
My friend Bill Fuller plays in a high class restaurant in Memphis and is so good that I blogged him.
My friend Bobby Fuller has lived music....and every old High School annual that I see has all these people playing musical instruments or singing in the choir or marching in the band.....
All my friends can do musical stuff cept me.......
So I confess … (36 comments)
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searcy ar: From puzzled to precise to piano man.....Searcy Arkansas native Bill Fuller makes it!
- 05/31/10 02:59 AM
I fell in love with this picture even though I knew not who it was. It's the expression! Puzzled? Wondering? Pleading? Burning up in that wool jacket and layered outfit? What was he thinking?
I found out later that this boy was Billy Fuller from Searcy Arkansas.
Billy matured.
Billy gained confidence .
Billy became the piano man.
He achieved a degree in music from Hendrix College in Conway Arkansas.
He has had a successful career in music ranging from youth ministry in the Methodist Church to organizing choirs in the United States Air Force.
Billy has been active in theatre … (40 comments)
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searcy ar: The evolution of a blue house in Searcy Arkansas....
- 05/29/10 02:12 AM
The evolution of a blue house in Searcy Arkansas, sworn to be the truth by Anita Fuller who spent many happy hours in the house, is repeated in this blog.
First we had the country porch type house. Anita was a little tot who sat on the front porch looking as if she was looking for a friend. Porch swings were the thing. A cool front porch, in fact, with a big tree for shade.
Anita had a very active and colorful mother who liked the latest fashions so in the 50's she remodeled the house. Remember the 50's was a time when you HAD to … (24 comments)
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searcy ar: The rock house on Holmes Road Searcy AR built by Ballard Holmes a long time ago.
- 05/26/10 02:20 PM
This is a continued blog it seems. We start out with an innocent city slicker accusing the Holmes's of having loud braying mules which actually turned out to be jacks.
Then we showed an old house of the Holmes's which they inhabited before building a fortress of a rock house on the side of Holmes' mountain. Here's a picture of my now-deceased mother-and-father-in-law during their courting days. He must have been showing off how he could ride a horse. He really pursued that pretty Holmes girl named Wyndelene.
Behind them is the Holmes's rock house. Being almost a fortress it still stands so … (13 comments)
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searcy ar: The Holmes Ranch on Holmes Road in Searcy Arkansas? Not a mansion.
- 05/25/10 01:30 AM
I posted a blog a day or two ago about the mule-making on Holmes Road many years ago. Bob Collins said he could hear braying all the way into town where he was a city slicker.
I came across a picture which seems to go along with the last blog. It is a picture marked on the back by my mother-in-law saying, "Our old home place across road. Holmes Ranch." The Holmes family had built a rock house on the hill and this was an old house still standing.
A card was with the picture reading, "Robert Taylor Judge property, owned by … (10 comments)
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searcy ar: Happy Truck visits Bald Knob Arkansas. Babe, Cate and Daisy.
- 05/21/10 03:58 PM
Welcome to Cate and Daisy's most excellent adventure site. We will be adding blogs and pictures of our journey across the country in Babe the 1985 "ox"idized, blue Ford F150. Check back often for updates and please sign our guestbook! www.checkoutmytrip.com/zingare
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Stopping at my favorite seafood shop in Bald Knob Arkansas, I saw this truck in the parking lot. Being an old Art teacher I asked if the decor was permanent. They replied, "You bet!"
So I asked for a photo. You know how our simple little blogging minds now think. They posed readily and handed me … (11 comments)
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searcy ar: Little Lolita Anita from Searcy Arkansas. Wasn't she cute? 1008 W Arch.
- 05/18/10 10:58 AM
I'm reblogging my own blog.
It was one of my favorites and in case you missed it, it's worth seeing the change of this house on Arch Street. Right now the blue house can be bought if you're interested.
But the history of it is what's fun. Also seeing this old photo of Anita, my blog buddy, on the steps is worth reviewing. I told her it was just too "provocative" a pose for a little girl.
She was offended and said she was in her Girl Scout bathing uniform!! She told me the other day that my blogs were … (44 comments)
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searcy ar: Kinda like watching paint dry but something is going to happen.
- 05/17/10 10:47 AM
In the neighborhood there appears to be a battle between this tree and an underground utility box. It's been going on for years and it's like a slow but sure competition.
That tree grows bigger and bigger.
That box gets more and more tilted.
Oh, the excitement! What's going to happen?
I asked Hubby and he said, "Well, one of these days we'll probably have everything just go off."
And way up in that tree is a street light being swallowed. Now don't you just love the excitement!!
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searcy ar: When REOs are repeated it becomes a challenge. Look for beauty anyhow.
- 05/11/10 03:00 PM
For the second time this year I have been assigned an REO that was an REO about two or three years ago and I had the pleasure? of marketing it. It's an REO again! The one today required a drive into the country and when I got to it a guard dog wouldn't let me get out of the car. There's never a dull moment with REOs.
But look what I found on the way!! The bleached wood on this old building that is falling down in places was priceless. It was easy to see with no shrubs and trees covering … (14 comments)
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searcy ar: The fires are burning bright for Searcy's newest subdivision!
- 05/10/10 03:51 PM
Searcy Arkansas has a new subdivision under construction! It's called Sunset Point Development
In case you haven't noticed, drive down Lucy Street and look West. Big machines are out there pushing dirt around. Fires are burning debris. Streets are being surveyed and all utilities are being run.
This subdivision is being developed by Clay Hite, one of Searcy's best builders. He successfully purchased land that is North of Arch Street and West of Lucy and East of Meadowlane Subdivision. The area has enough room for 70 lots.
Entrance will be from West Arch Street or from the extension of West Vine Street. … (8 comments)
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Anyone out there remember the old Burger Barn in Searcy Arkansas? Here's the picture from an old yearbook.
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