Did you ever hear of the Silver Moon? Did you go there?It was in Newport AR and it hosted soon-to-be-famous stars like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong, Conway Twitty, Sonny Burgess and many others. The club had alcohol, gambling, and live bands and could seat 800.I found this poster
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03/17/2024
Artificial Intelligence?MLS lets AI write our listed house remarks. They turn out to be awful descriptions with too much verbiage. So I am curious. Let's test them, if you know how. I don't know how but let's see if we could direct them to do a realistic picture of this house that was in Searcy
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03/08/2024
Imagine what it used to be.This is the back view of a building in Judsonia. Looking at it and thinking back, you can almost picture a nicely curved back entry and 3 nicely curved windows. The tornado was in 1952 but the building is still standing. The back seems to be in better shape than the
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02/23/2024
Have you ever noticed that a yearbook may be called "Panther" or some name but you have a hard time finding the city that it is from? Here are our Panthers but it was a search to find that they are from Judsonia AR. (Remember the city that was destroyed in 1952 by a tornado.)So what are they go
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02/16/2024
This newly discovered postcard is interesting and I have done a blog about this similar one below. So I am wondering if some business person went around putting up little saloons. Click here https://activerain.com/droplet/7s62 for the blog of the one below. The gentleman above seems more like
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02/09/2024
Is this lovely!I had never seen one until this was discovered in a saver's house. He collected all sorts of items that are now offered to the public at a sale this weekend. I believe there are three of them to be offered. The estate sale is at 104 Lynn Street, Judsonia AR starting in the morn
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02/08/2024
Old Old Hotel. Fireproof Hotel Adrian, Heber Springs, Ark. Did you ever hear of it? Neither had I but here's an old postcard that seems to prove that there was one. Let's read what the nearly worn-out card says. The first picture shows the building and two rooms inside with this written on it.
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02/05/2024
Old Swinging BridgeIn October this old bridge collapsed. It is at Heber Springs AR and had been closed to traffic in 1972, built in 1912, and could be visited as a walking bridge. The report sounds as if several visitors were on the bridge and some youths started swinging it and it suddenly col
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01/28/2024
What a picture! Have you noticed how all the girls now want long hair, usually parted in the middle and hanging down over the chest? Evidently, it was a style many years ago also. I have loads of old pictures and came across this stunning photograph.Condition is not the greatest. On the bac
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01/22/2024
Fifty Years Ago!Fooled you, didn't I. It looks a lot like a week ago in Searcy AR. This picture was taken in our yard many years ago. (The second picture is from the same yard. A good dad did all this!) Dads, at that time, put up tire swings for the kids to play on and in this second instance
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01/21/2024