Few can remember this.....The Roseann Motel-Restaurant in Searcy AR. was a popular spot and this menu opens and prices the food. Hamburger 35 cents, coffee 10 cents and it goes on and on with those cheap, cheap prices of food. It is now for sale on ebay. If the Historical Society does not have
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04/12/2024
Blogging appreciation from WCHS! Thanks!Searcy has noticed my blog! I have written 2008 blogs since about the year 2008. Activerain is a wonderful blog site and somehow lots of history has gone into my blog. It was a surprise to receive this certificate of appreciation at the last meeting of
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04/04/2024
Dressed with class. Over 100 years ago?This is an old, old picture but it shows how styles change through the years and how the men and women copied the styles. Women evidently liked the ruffled collar and the fancy sleeves. Note two bracelets alike, two necklaces alike, slim waists and pins!
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04/03/2024
Searcy AR grows. Library grows also.Barbara S Duncan, that's me, presented a lovely drawing of Searcy's first library to Darla Ino, Library Director of the White County Regional Library System. The present library (remember it is moving to a larger one) did not have a picture of the first librar
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03/28/2024
Lovely farmhouse.....now history.This charming house had its space on Country Club Road. Land, barns, storage. It was a typical outside-of-town farm, owned and operated by the same family for so many years. Here is the remaining chimney. The house is gone.And here are a few of the typical farm
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03/27/2024
Remember this? Library in Spring Park, Searcy AR.This card does not have a date on it but the place to put a stamp asks for a one cent stamp. So how long ago was that? Some of the old one cent stamps have become collectible. When I became a Searcy resident, my children and I went to this libr
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03/21/2024
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
