About Searcy's Old Searcy Arkansas

Seems as if Security Bank, which is now First Security Bank, was a lovely building where lots of photos were taken. First Security Bank in Searcy Arkansas has just remodeled this bank to look original as in these pictures.

These two ladies are posing at the same spot.

The first lady below in the fur coat (which we're afraid to wear now) is unknown unless some of my readers can identify her. Notice the old city lamp post reflected in her picture. Reportedly these antiques were later on sold and replaced with more modern ones. What's that thing under the lamp post?

The second lady is our famous Corrine Hart, Anita Fuller's mother, who lived to be 100 and actually suggested the name Security Bank. Notice at the end of the street is First Methodist Church, a landmark and still in existence

Of interest to the fashion conscious, note the shoes.....almost the same.....gotta have fashion just as we have today! And the skirts then had to be the same length to be in style.

Notice the title says the house is "going away." That is better than saying "being torn down."

I've always felt that this big old house located on the very edge of Highway 16 North (1105 N Maple Street) was a mystery house. It stood starkly and was empty of people, shrubs, fences or anything to make it look occupied. It was just there, a landmark. I always wanted to go inside and find out it's history and mystery.

It was always too close to the highway. Even when the highway was a little two-lane one.

Driving past it today, my old heart flipped again. It's going down! Someone is tearing it down! I hate that!!

But what does that sign on the front say? It says that it is being moved! And saved!

Steve Ghent is a builder in our town who loves history and saving historic homes. He will move it someplace where it will fit in and have a new life.

While being happy that it was to be restored and I didn't have to do the old "Another one bites the dust," I started looking at the construction.

Look at the boards! Real boards! Where's the wiring?

The house was built in 1937. Evidently it had absolutely no insulation in the walls.

Times are changing....have changed....will change more!! And even though I liked to see this old house, I wouldn't trade my super energy efficient house for this one. Green is the way to go!!

Here's a historic view of West Arch Street in Searcy Arkansas. Notice the building on the right was under construction. Notice the streets look like mud! Looks like a wagon with passengers heading West. On the South side you can see a Drug Store sign and that must have been Stotts which is still in existence.

And look at all those poles! Telephone poles, light poles, poles to hold up awnings!

This picture should make us appreciate how thing have changed. When we feel like griping about a pothole, remember this picture. Also look at our lovely areas where the utilities are all underground.

A second view shows the street in the 50's.

A couple of days ago I put the hospital news from March 18 1980 in my blog.

It was a regular part of the Searcy Daily News and highly read.

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Today I think it's fun to put up another feature.

This one is the society news column that was written by Helen Bauer for many years.

Lots of people laughed even then about how it was totally unimportant if a person went shopping in Little Rock or a kid came home from college to visit.

Reading through this brings back smiles and memories. I still know a lot of these people and we all considered them part of high-society if they were in this column.

Read back and enjoy old memories, Searcy folks! I was a little taken back by the mention of a Sherry party. I assume they meant Sherry Wine???

When you feel adventurous now and dig into old drawers or cubby-holes you have a new goal!

Blog fodder!!

Goodness!! Look what I found!! I gotta show this to my Activerain friends.

So look what I found!

This old sheet out of a note pad was probably a give-away in 1948!! And look at the picture. The priority at that time may have been baseball instead of today's passion sport of football!

Of importance to me, however, is this. There is no 8th Street in Searcy Arkansas. It has somehow and somewhere been changed to some other name. There is definitely no Ramsey Printing and there is no phone number in the entire world now that would be Phone 170!!