About Searcy's Old Searcy Arkansas

Here are two more car dealerships that were active in 1965 in Searcy Arkansas as seen in a 1965 high school yearbook. Sleuths, do you know who they are and where they were?

And while we are at it, we might as well show this dealership that is slightly out of Searcy but not very far. They advertised New and Used Parts, Car Parts Galore, Lots of Good Used Cars, A Bonanza of Bargains and Wrecker Service.

Old yearbooks are a great source for historical pictures. I borrowed one from 1965 and it was the year that my brother-in-law Montie Duncan graduated. Because of his being from a car dealer's family and also being on the yearbook staff, they must have called on all the car dealers in town. Here's a good one to show you.

This one was located at 1104 W Pleasure Street in Searcy Arkansas. Phone number was CH 5-5536 and his ad bragged,

"King of the Cleanest Used Cars & Trucks in the State."

And there is still a car lot but just not as populated with vehicles.

Sadly, Montie Duncan passed away this year but I think he would enjoy knowing that we are enjoying pictures that he had a hand in creating.

Just a blog or two ago I talked about little old office buildings that served as offices for car lots. I put this one up as an example of how they are just about gone and are showing lots of wear and tear. This one is in Beebe Arkansas.

Imagine my surprise when I was browsing through a 1965 Searcy High yearbook and saw this picture in the advertisements.

I hollered to Hubby (who was part of the Duncan crew) and said, "Well, look at this old picture of the car lot with the College Church of Christ in the background!" He looks and says, "Oh, yeah. We sold that old building to someone in Beebe and it is still down there on Highway 31 South."

The building still lives! Unoccupied, but it's still there!

And don't you love those old cars!

Now I can feel safe driving between two of Searcy's most historic homes. They are located on E. Center Street and the tree looked like this. It was obviously diseased and depending upon which way the wind blew we had two homes in danger.

To the East we had the historic Pascall house. Those limbs would have demolished it.

To the West we had the Deener house, in whose yard the tree dwelled.

Driving between the two of them was little ole me....but not little ole me if the weather was stormy.

While driving to work a few days ago, I noticed a crew in there working on that tree. For several days they worked on that tree because it was a giant. Now the tree is down and here's a present picture of the giant.

Correction. Here is a picture of PART of the giant. It filled up a lot more space than this but this picture shows the problem and why the tree had to be sacrificed.

Here's an old picture of the historic Deener house. The tree had probably just been planted!

For sale right now on ebay!

Photo of Leo Stotts of Stotts Drug Store.

On the back of the picture it says Leo Stotts Hendrix College, Conway Searcy Ark, Stotts Pharmacist.

It is beautifully hand tinted and should hang in Stotts Drug Store if it is one of the original owners of the drug store.

Stotts has been redone within the last two years so that it has its old original look as shown here. We in Searcy Arkansas appreciate the character that has been preserved by the owners of this drug store.