When Kroger was in downtown Searcy AR...on Spring Street.

Glad to see a picture of the old store.  I knew it was a small store compared to today's grocery stores.  And there wasn't any air conditioning in the stores at that time.  They only place that I remember being air conditioned besides the Rialto was the Royal Cafe on West side of court square.  Someone may can correct me on that one.

This post is a treasure to my husband, Bob......who remembers when Kroger was on Spring St. but no one else did....until a blog or two ago.  He says, as we so often say, "it's smaller than I remember"!    but he does remember the Byrd guys, Jessie and Tommy...and Ed Coward who was a State Trooper and the father of a classmate behind us in school, Joe Coward.  Sadly Joe passed away some years ago.

Great find, Barbara.  Thank you....and Thank Pioneer Village.

Mary, Bob doesn't know who was manager when the store moved to Race Street, but it couldn't have been these Byrd men.....they would have been too old then.  It might have been one of their children.   Bob says his dad was a manager when it was on Spring St. and manager when it moved to behind the courthouse. To me that means Bill Fuller was the manager AFTER the Byrd man.

Yep, good ole Park Ave. Grocery, where everyone knew your name.  Sometimes that isn't so good.  When Jack's sister worked there, I went in for something and she asked me if I had called there and asked if they had Prince Albert in a can.  When she said they did have it, someone told them to let him out or he would die.  That someone wasn't me, as we didn't have a phone and I hadn't used anyone else's phone. 

Don didn't go to Kroger because he was loitering around Safeway, hoping to get a glimpse of Paula!  (or hoping she might get a glimpse of him)

I am in Springdale as I'm writing, will go to Crystal Bridges Museum in the morning, Barbara.

Bob remembers when the trucks came to re-stock the store:  like bread truck, produce truck, etc. they  would park out in the middle of the street and unload.  He says the meat truck always parked around the back of the store.  Sometimes the bus for the Rendezvous would park outside, therefore blocking the entire street,

Anita Fuller

Bob didn't work at the Spring St. Kroger, he was too little.  He did work at the one behind the post office after he got old enough.

Don't forget Save-a-lot use to be Krogers back in the 70's

Do you happen to have a photo of the gas station that Eason the corner across Main Street from the Methodist church? Possibly where the Dobbins building (Carter law office) is now?