Beautiful old doors!Some interesting Searcy AR history has just surfaced and there are beautiful antique doors for sale. At the corner of Market and Gum in Searcy stands Bliss Salon in an old building that the court house says was built in 1884 and was renovated a few years ago by Bliss Salon ow
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07/13/2022
Spring Street, Looking North, Searcy ARKTo really appreciate this old card and this blog you need to enlarge the picture and see the small details. Ads on the buildings told me something I didn't know. The barber shop had baths! Go to the barber shop and get yourself a shave, haircut AND a bat
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07/11/2022
Another sad photo of Judsonia AR tornadoI can't remember where I got this picture but it brings back sad memories of the 1952 tornado that practically wiped out the Arkansas town of Judsonia and did damage to other towns nearby. Perhaps someone can tell us the location of this destruction. It i
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06/28/2022
From this drawing in 1979....to this exhibited art work at Searcy Art Gallery, 300 East Race St.I was teaching Art in 1979 at Searcy High School. One of my most talented students was a young man named Bill Reames. He loved art and did lots of illustrations in the year books. The 1979 yearbook
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06/22/2022
Graduation? Big Party? Where?Searcy AR had several places for parties way-back-then? This one has lots of young people so it may be a school prom. What I wonder is where it was being held. The Mayfair had big rooms, I think. So did the very popular Rendezvous Restaurant. Roseann Motel? It i
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06/22/2022
Governor Orville Faubus visits Searcy and the band greets him.These are interesting old pictures of the then Governor Faubus arriving in Searcy AR for some function that was important enough to bring out the band. Searcy Sleuths can tell the year by the vehicles, I predict. To the left would be
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06/14/2022
Parade downtown Searcy. Here's an interesting picture of a parade in old down-town Searcy AR. The original brick streets are visible and interesting. The court house is in the distance. To me, most interesting is the service window that has now been closed but once was a part of what is now Qu
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06/13/2022
Karen Fuller in Searcy ARKaren Fuller has returned to Arkansas. She was a top TV news anchor a few years back in Arkansas....so good that she was stolen away by other news stations in other states. She has returned and is working for KTHV 11 as an early morning TV anchor. Her mother, Anita Ha
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06/05/2022
Early look at Arch Street in Searcy ARI stumbled across this old card that is for sale on ebay right now. We often wonder what the old buildings originally looked like. Here is the possible answer. Only Baugh Drug Store appeared to have a protective covered sidewalk and the streets were dirt.
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05/23/2022
Fred Stewart, cartoonist, did this scary, wonderful picture using pen and ink. It has just been discovered after having been packed away for many years. The lower one shows it framed and the top one shows the fantastic pen strokes that make up the picture. It was done in 1972. We wrote a blog
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05/17/2022
