searcy ar: Remembering a grandfather on Mother's Day. And there's nothing wrong with that.
- 05/08/10 05:50 AM
My blog buddy, Anita, emailed me about something and made this remark in her email regarding Mother's Day.
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I'm sure she will be wearing a white rose in church tomorrow. ...That is one memory I have of Mother's Day in church: everyone wearing a red rose if mother was alive, white if dead. Mother used to tell me to wear pink.....
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A memory came back to me regarding my children's grandfather. His name was Paul Smith and he attended church regularly with the children's grandmother. He was in fact a deacon at the church. He was there so much, … (4 comments)
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searcy ar: That snake is almost as big as I am! Pleasures were simpler years ago.
- 05/06/10 03:20 PM
WOW! That's my grandpa and he's not even afraid of that snake!
And that's my daddy protecting me if that snake comes alive.
Perhaps that is not what the young boy is thinking but I do feel that he was as thrilled as could be to be out snake hunting with two men who loved him.
In case you are wondering, it is my husband and his dad, V. W. Duncan and Mr. Holmes, my husband's grandpa on his mother's side.
The Holmes lived on the side of a hill in Searcy Arkansas and it had lots of rocks and … (11 comments)
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searcy ar: Oh, No! What's going on here? Margaret Pope Estate house undergoing changes?
- 04/24/10 01:12 AM
Searcy's historic houses get gone, seems like, overnight. I drove by this one two times on my way to work yesterday. The first time there was a dump truck in the yard. The second time the screened porch on the East side was gone.
The house appears empty and the yard has been growing up. It is called the Margaret Pope house, I believe, unless my historians correct me. It's on a corner of Market Street just a few blocks from downtown Searcy Arkansas. Several attempts have been made throughout the years to remodel it and save it.
What is going on now? … (17 comments)
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searcy ar: E. C. Blakemore & Co. Searcy Arkansas. 94 year old calendar hangs on my wall.
- 04/22/10 02:45 AM
Bob Collins, a blogging friend who remembers Searcy as he grew up, says lots of mom & pop corner grocery stores existed in Searcy at one time. Most families had no car or one car and needed to walk to get supplies.
"But the advent of supermarkets with their greater selections and lower prices along with more family cars meant the beginning of the end for these little stores. Their suppliers such as Searcy Wholesale and the Jobber, Simon Moye, felt the change as well. Then along came big chain convenience stores and bye-bye mom and pop," wrote Bob. He can probably … (24 comments)
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searcy ar: Linoleum in a pattern that was pretty and servicable. Floor covering from the past.
- 04/21/10 12:26 AM
Remember linoleum? This house, built in 1927, still has a few original things about it, and I think the linoleum on this floor is one of them. Note the wood floor also. it appears to have been painted before the linoleum was placed over the wood.
Your grandparents, or in my case my parents, didn't like the ugly wood floors and did what they could to spruce them up. They might paint them in different colors and patterns or they could go and buy a large roll of linoleum and unroll it on top of the wood. This floral pattern … (21 comments)
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searcy ar: A gang patrolling the streets in the 50's. Bet they could be fierce. Searcy AR girls.
- 04/13/10 02:19 PM
The more I view this picture of girls from Searcy Arkansas walking down the street sometime in the 50's the more I feel as if they'd be tough cookies to handle. They walk with determination. They have every direction covered. They have on socks and comfortable shoes so they could chase you down in a hurry. One even has on boots for stomping. That fourth one with the dress on may have on heels and she's definitely overdressed for this street patrol.
I love the fact that they are trim and not a single one is overweight.
Seeing our young … (20 comments)
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searcy ar: Reliving past glories. I guess there's nothing wrong with it. The tomato king is trying again.
- 04/12/10 02:06 PM
Does he ever look happy! He grew these tomatoes. I don't remember the exact year and I don't know whether we ate them because he's holding onto them for dear life. He tried last year to achieve this feat again and failed. We poked fun at him.
This year it is time to try again. He's growing tomatoes in Searcy Arkansas but his plan is to get out of that vacant lot where the deer (@#$!%!@# deer as he calls them) ate all his tomatoes before we could get them mature on the vine. In fact the deer ate … (15 comments)
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searcy ar: Pee Wee Football players and coaches from 1969 Searcy Arkansas. A trip down memory lane.
- 04/08/10 12:47 PM
My husband and a bunch of his buddies, old football (Well, at that time they were still young.) players, got together and decided to begin a Pee Wee Football League in Seary Arkansas. The year must have been 1969 because someone saved and loaned me this list of players and coaches. Duncan's Roadrunners was his team.
It is interesting now to look back and see who the first players were and who the highly competitive coaches were. Hubby coached for about 4 years and said he had to quit before he got so heated and upset that he'd ruin his … (8 comments)
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searcy ar: One of my favorite history houses sells again. 501 E Race, Searcy Arkansas
- 04/06/10 12:55 AM
The newspaper reported that 501 East Race is going to become the home of White County Children's Safety Center, an organization in its second year of operation of supporting children who may be victims of child abuse or neglect.
The house was built in 1929. The original owner died in approximately 2003 and I had the house listed when it sold the first time. I always loved the house. It was so charming with an oozy brick exterior. Look at this brickwork. There is probably a real name for this brick work but I can't remember it. What's wrong with "oozy?"
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searcy ar: Sold in 1995. 2010. Family circumstances change. For sale again. I love repeat business.
- 04/01/10 02:00 PM
It is such a pleasure to think back over the years and know that you sold a house to a family who has lived there, taken care of it and loved it all through the years.
Here's an example. They kept the picture of the house when they bought it. It had 7 acres in a very private area on the popular West side of our Searcy town.
They had to cut the two tallest trees and a storm made them get a new garage door and roof but it is basically the same now. It still has three bedrooms, two baths, … (10 comments)
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searcy ar: V.W. Duncan's Car Lot. Where was this house. Hint. It is no longer there.
- 03/23/10 12:37 AM
In an attempt to relive some of Searcy Arkansas's history we've been running pictures of some old houses. This is another one for my Searcy readers to think about and see if they remember it. Where was it? What is there now? And if you want to name the person in the picture you can do that to.
Fewer and fewer of these great old houses remain. I deliberately drove over to take pictures of two houses on a street near downtown Searcy. I knew they were in bad shape and wouldn't be around much longer.
Well! When I … (34 comments)
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searcy ar: Civilian Conservation Corps? Public Works Program? What is happening in this picture?
- 03/20/10 05:44 AM
I'm putting this picture on my blog with no memory of where I got it. It makes me think of the Great Depression and the work that was done during the 30's and very early 40's by the WPA and the CCC. I put up a blog a few months ago regarding a relative's discharge papers from the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1941. He was shipped from California back to Georgia and was about 17 years old.
Could this have been in his estate pictures? The first guy beside the truck stands like he did. The amazing thing to me, … (10 comments)
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searcy ar: Getting ready for fox hunt at Armstrong Springs, just a memory now, near Searcy Arkansas.
- 03/18/10 08:41 AM
This postcard was run in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette by Steven Hanley, who has collected post cards for years and years and has a huge collection. He runs one a day in the newspaper.
This one has an explanation that at Armstrong Springs (not far from Searcy and only a memory now) in 1909 six mounted men and their dogs were about to go fox hunting. Armstrong Springs was a small health resort that attracted visitors from far and wide because of its "miracle water" which was bottled and shipped across the nation. The building shown here was a hotel. … (10 comments)
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searcy ar: Entergy expends lots of energy making half-trees in Searcy Arkansas.
- 03/16/10 01:25 AM
Have you driven by and seen something like this?
A good ole Southern country boy's reaction might be, "Why, them ain't nuthin' but hafatrees."
In fact, I agree. We find these half-trees a lot in the Searcy Arkansas area. Entergy, the power company who services the area, sends out men in trucks with buckets and trims the tree away from the power lines. Why they don't just tell the property owner that they have to cut the trees down escapes me. Maybe they think half a tree is better than no tree at all.
This scene above is on Country Club Road … (14 comments)
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searcy ar: Tornado in Center Hill Arkansas destroyed the houses I'd blogged about.
- 03/14/10 12:58 AM
A few nights ago we had the familiar tornado warnings again. Hubby told me I'd better turn off the computer. I put on my tennis shoes in case I'm blown away and wake up in some dark field with glass and tin all around me. We didn't get hit but Center Hill Arkansas did. Again! This is I think the third time Center Hill has been hit in the last few years. A drive up to the area today showed the damages this time.
I had blogged about some houses at Center Hill a few days ago. It got those houses. … (34 comments)
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searcy ar: Two story house that used to stand where Sexton's Food Store is now on East Race in Searcy Arkansas.
- 03/11/10 12:18 PM
Here's a rediscovered photograph of a house that used to be on East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas. It was loaned to me by Dorothy Yarnell Warden, our historical oracle, and she tells us that it was built probably around the 1920's by R. A. Neelly, a relative of hers. It replaced the cottage that we featured yesterday and was the reason for moving the smaller house. It was located where the Sexton's Food Market is now.
I love the lady on the porch steps and the curtain blowing in the open upstairs window. Look how the street was not … (13 comments)
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searcy ar: Dorothy Yarnell Warden as a cutie-pie child in the yard of the house that still lives in Searcy Arkansas.
- 03/09/10 11:17 AM
We did another blog once arguing about how one house can not have turned into "this" house and I lost the argument.
Here we have another interesting situation. Our Searcy history oracle, Dorothy Yarnell Warden, loaned me this picture of herself in the front yard of her house which was on Race Street where Sexton's market is today. The dress she has on looks stiffly starched and ironed and makes me think of my mother slaving over an iron which was heated at the fireplace and then carried to the ironing board to iron clothes. (And we complain about hard work!)
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searcy ar: The old Deener House, Searcy Arkansas, now a day care center.
- 03/04/10 12:13 PM
The Deener House always led to confusion on my part because I had heard the term used a lot and I didn't know exactly what they referred to. Some said the Old Deener House. Well.....does that mean the Deener was old or the house was old? Anita, my blogging friend, says that this is the Deener house and she knew and was friends with the girl who lived there.
It's now a daycare center. Don't you know kids like to drive up to their school and see the A, B, C's on the side of the house? According to the courthouse … (27 comments)
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searcy ar: I love a good ghost story. Here's one from our haunted Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs!
- 03/03/10 07:23 AM
This story was in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette today, Mar 2 2010. I always love a good ghost story and this one comes close to topping most of the ones I've heard. I've been into the lobby of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs Arkansas but haven't had the courage to spend the night.
Plan to vacation in our beautiful state of Arkansas!
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searcy ar: Case of mistaken identity in Searcy Arkansas. That is not a furry fiend; it is Nutsy!
- 03/02/10 07:41 AM
On the front page of our Searcy Daily Citizen today was this picture of a kindly gentleman holding a cage with a lovely squirrel. The newspaper took liberty and called the squirrel a furry fiend! Imagine! A furry fiend!
I looked closely and feel pretty sure it is my godson Nutsy, the Washington Certifried Home Inspector who works for Steven Smith in Bellingham WA. Nutsy is caught here while trying to find my house. He had no intention of going into a strange attic and getting caught in a cage!
He probably got off at the wrong bus stop or if … (19 comments)
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My blog buddy, Anita, emailed me about something and made this remark in her email regarding Mother's Day.
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