I have recovered slides. My friend Larry DeGroat loaned me his device for taking old slides which no one ever looks at anymore and putting the image on the computer. With me it was almost like the "Lost Years" recovered because the slides had not been viewed in probably 40 years or longer. I es
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02/14/2010
This photo was loaned to me by my friend Sherry, whose mother was Frances Hall Quattlebaum. Frances was a colorful lady who was admired by the folks who lived in Searcy. Frances passed away on Sept 15, 1999 and upon hearing of her death the newspaper editor received a call from a lady who call
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02/13/2010
An assignment for the 4-H Club in the 70's, if you took photography as a project, was to do a photographic sequence of events, wordless. Here's one that is even funnier now than it was then. It was done by my son using his friend as a model. Here's the young man unhappy with home life. He grab
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02/11/2010
Activerain friends contribute. They add comments to our blogs, provide pictures, and generally keep us on our toes looking for new blog ideas. One of my activerain friends came to my house today and made me wireless!! Of course, those same activerain friends can stir up stuff. I didn't know I
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02/10/2010
This old picture of a bridge just says that it is near Searcy Arkansas. I'm thinking that it is the bridge that connected Judsonia with Kensett without folks having to drive miles around. If so, it is the bridge that is now closed with the county trying to find the money to make repairs. Bein
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02/09/2010
We once had filling stations/service stations on every corner of Searcy Arkansas and other towns across the country. They're dwindling. Here's one that is gone. I'll let you see if you know where it was, Searcy readers, and report back to me. A hint. The house in the picture is still there.
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02/07/2010
I wrote a blog about a spooky voice saying to me, "Have a nice dinner. I will call you tomorrow." It was from a landline text. The voice is robotic and mysterious sounding because you don't know who it is from. A blogging buddy sent me this fantastic web link and you need to visit it just as
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02/06/2010
This picture is so interesting. This was loaned to me by Bob and Anita Fuller. It shows a wrecker pulling in a wrecked car and dates around the 1930's. In the background is First Methodist Church. The filling station was called Pershing Service Station and is no longer there. I have another
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02/04/2010
They say you can't safely walk the streets of New York in a fur coat or you might get violated in some way. Wonder what New York would think of this remnant of the past. Look at these fashionable Searcy ladies walking in Hot Springs Arkansas. Two of them have their fur collar pieces which consi
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02/03/2010
This photo was loaned to me by Anita Hart Fuller, one of our blogger queens. Anita has a vast knowledge of Searcy as it was before it got so big. She loves Searcy but lives 40 minutes away. I ask her why she does not move back and she says, "Searcy has changed too much." Hubby says this is a
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02/02/2010
