No picture today. Well, perhaps a picture of my daughter, whom the blog is about. As normal, she had encouraged me to try something new. To be honest, she has insisted that I do many things!!I was a real estate agent and blogging was something new so off I went. How many years is that? 18!!
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05/12/2025
Let's see. 2025 -1904 = 121 years ago? That's a long time ago when this cookbook was compiled by the Ladies' Aid Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Searcy AR. The gift was from my good friend and great Searcy artist, Howard Johnson. He says it is a copy of the original and rep
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05/08/2025
I received a surprise package in the mail today!It has no name on who sent me the package of 10 wonderful old photos of the beginning Pee Wee football players in Searcy AR from 1969 to 1972. This one is of the Duncan's Roadrunners. Look at the coaches in the back. Aren't they handsome!! The o
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04/16/2025
We all loved Sears, Roebuck and Co.I stumbled upon this very old looking packet of sandpaper with the Sears name on it. All 6 sheets of sandpaper were still in it. I could find no price or date on it anywhere. One of the sheets is shown below. What is Aluminum Oxide? Our beloved Sears has be
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04/11/2025
WHAT A CREW! WHAT A MEMORY!I know, I know! Can't remember some of this crew? Realize it was about 33 years ago and that helps with the reason and I have the same problem. But it is a REALLY good memory. I am on the bottom row right proudly wearing my new RE/MAX jacket and I guess we were h
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04/08/2025
Wonderful MemoriesCheck your bookshelves. As I did. You may find this wonderful book of memories of Searcy AR. As I did. It was written in 2012 by Patsy Pipkin, a Searcy lady, and Carolyn Boyles, who seems to go from place to place writing these memory books. She chose Searcy for one and had
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03/30/2025
Another "style" picture from 1970.Old yearbooks are a lot of fun to look through. I was searching the 1970 one and saw this group picture of the Future Homemakers of America. Looks like all girls, doesn't it. Then I noticed all those legs on the front row. Notice two girls with what we used to
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03/22/2025
Moving Notice! On handkerchief! Unusual?? I stumbled across a large stack of old vintage handkerchiefs a few weeks ago. It startled me to find this one! Someone had evidently used handkerchiefs to announce their move. I'd never seen that before. Here's a picture of the whole hanky. It was
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03/10/2025
1950's typing class.Who remembers this? Do they still have them?I found this old picture inside a 1950 Searcy Arkansas yearbook. It was a free picture just inside the book with several other pictures, mostly football. So I assume that it was from the 1950 school year. Searcy Sleuths may even r
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03/04/2025
The Ultimate 1968 Fashion Photo Example!Hold it!! I was not referring to the people in the photo even though being a hippy was popular back then. I was talking about the wrought iron porch pillar posts. Driving now through Searcy's first subdivisions with covenants, Lambert Terrace and Clov
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02/24/2025
