Searcy Arkansas was fortunate to welcome a new family named DeVore to Searcy in 1974. Van DeVore came to work with SW Bell, his wife was Letain and their children were Janet and Roger. Letain had been selling Avon.Did you know? Women real estate agents were almost non-existent back then. Leta
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08/17/2023
This is a picture of an interesting change happening outside my kitchen window. Look how the leaf is forming! It appears as a coiled spiral looking thing. And then! Second picture shows it after opening all the way. What a huge leaf on this fantastic plant that was a gift to me after my husb
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08/16/2023
WOW! Look at that large empy lot! What's wrong with it!! House missing! Searcy Sleuths, have you driven by and missed it....just as I did? So close the next picture and your eyes and think! Where is this lot?OK? Give up? I had to go to the court house files to find a picture of the missing
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08/07/2023
Car colors!Look around you now. White is the dominate color for cars and trucks, or it seems that way to me. Hubby, car dealer, indicated one time that colors on cars made the vehicle cost more. This old 50's post card showing cars, and one truck, parked around one of Searcy's favorite eating
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07/18/2023
Is it still there? Interesting!This card is for sale on ebay. I stumbled across it and it brought back memories. I knew about boogers....from my parents....who told me they would get me if I wasn't a good girl. And not a Hollow but a "Holler" so make that Booger Holler.Located at Dover, Arkans
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07/10/2023
You think this looks old?How about this one? You can see it is ancient!The probable date that it was in action. 1942. Perhaps it was carried through the war. Now we see two more interesting items. A poll tax receipt and a receipt for paying White County AR personal property tax. Total tax was
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06/13/2023
Something is missing!I was contacted and told that one of our twin tins (the only one remaining at the corner of S. Oak and Pleasure) is gone. The site looks like this. I did a blog about the twin tins several years ago. So STOP! Go see this blog. https://activerain.com/droplet/8XvDDon't the
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05/29/2023
The Spunky JunkerI walked in, sunglasses on, and heard a nice "Hello" but couldn't tell where it came from. There were so many lovely things in this newly-opened The Spunky Junker antique store that I had to have my sunglasses revert to inside vision. Then I could see Terre McCord behind her de
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05/27/2023
A Jug Full of MemoriesThe Historic Benjamin Clayton Black House is having an exhibit called Artisans and Collectors of Searcy. Here is an item displayed by one artist named Irene Crouch. In my long art loving background I have never seen one of these and she has three of them in her display.
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05/24/2023
Old, old picture of the Methodist Church.While digging through my treasures, I found this picture of the Searcy Methodist Church. Look at the mud in the road in front and the long fence in front of it. I have forgotten wheather that was a house or another church in the background. Perhaps someo
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05/21/2023
