My Searcy friends and I have a thing going.....where did this property "used to be?" Not having grown up in Searcy and not having roamed the streets of Searcy like my friends Don and Paula and Anita and Ludean, I can't remember these places. My history is only 40 years so I'm a newcomer! Going t
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09/19/2008
This old building dates back to WWI, according to Dr. Ray Muncy's book called "Searcy Arkansas, A Frontier Town Grows Up With America." He reports that the Federal Government gave approval for this building as a Post Office when post office buildings were rare in small towns. Most communities w
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09/17/2008
I posted a picture yesterday and will post it again below. It was this magnificent mansion in Searcy AR, White County, very near downtown, that was torn down many years ago. At least I think it was this house. If not this one, one so similar. Before it was torn down, they held an auction of
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09/16/2008
This house was torn down for progress. I think there is an apartment complex sitting where this old house used to be. My Searcy historians can tell me exactly where it was but I believe it was on Center Street. It shows the fancy architecture that was loved a long time ago. People actually s
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09/15/2008
It was just a pleasant night out with four couples, meaning me and my husband and three other couples. We had a pleasant chip & dip beginning. We had a lovely meal. Someone, possibly me, made some statement like, "Can you believe that...........?" And this pertained to politics and political ca
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09/14/2008
This old picture is another treasure and I believe it is also from our girl scout photography project done by Paula. She took them in the 40's. To take this she must have climbed up to the top of the Court House. The view she took shows the old Searcy Bank which we've featured before. What I
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09/13/2008
A university student called me about needing a reasonably priced home so that he could live there and possibly rent out rooms to a few friends. We went to look at a foreclosure that really is in good shape. It has no fleas!! It was left clean. It has been updated. It has a deck for what I fi
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09/12/2008
Yesterday was a busy day. I had no time to check on my favorite bloggers. The flea house, which still has fleas, is listed again. I told them that I'd just put a warning on the door to watch for fleas or spray or wear waders! ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK! An agent at the office accused me of bei
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09/11/2008
Have you ever heard of a Tonsil Clinic? I am not making this up. It happened in Arkansas and probably other places. Sixty Pangburn Arkansas students underwent tonsillectomies at their school on Oct 17, 1930! A most vivid article was published by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Dec. 10, 2000.
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09/10/2008
My memory of the scouts dates way back. My son wanted to be a scout and he dragged me to a meeting of all interested parents and kids at the beginning of the scout year. I was a busy person. I took care of the house, the spouse, the kids, and attended college and worked as a Junior Auxiliary
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09/08/2008
