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Barbara S. Duncan, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR

More car dealerships in Searcy AR in 1965.

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?

Aclin Car Dealership

Bolton Cadillac 1965

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.

Hughes and Sons Auto Parts

Richard Wooten Motors from 1965 Yearbook Searcy Arkansas

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.

Richard Wooten Motors 1965

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.

1104 W Pleasure

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.

White County Arkansas resident comes out of hibernation.

I have a friend who just does farms. He loves farms and he is extremely knowledgeable about them. He does not mind getting out and tramping around the farm and specializes in listing or selling farmland.

Now he can take his phone with him and send back interesting pictures. He found this one a lot of fun. He says it is a copperhead coiling up from the hole where he has been hibernating. It wasn't clear to me whether the copperhead comes up head first or tail first. But it is a fun picture, isn't it?

Copperhead from Arkansas

1965 revisited at the Duncan's Used Car Lot on East Race Street, Searcy Arkansas.

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.

Old Beebe car lot building

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

Duncan's Used Cars Searcy AR

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!

OMG! Is that our haunted house in this 1918 Mulberry Street Quitman AR postcard??

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette has this popular feature called Arkansas postcard past by Steven Hanley and they print an old postcard each day. This is Feb 24, 2012 and the card of the day is shown below.

65 Mulberry Quitman AR

It just so happens that we have a house listed on Mulberry that is inhabited by spirits as local legend goes. We have permission from the seller to advertise it this way also. So I peered at this dirt street and read underneath the picture. It reads, "Quitman, 1914. There was no traffic on the Cleburne County rural hamlet's tree-lined Mulberry Street when this photo was taken 98 years ago..."

I looked again and then dragged out the side picture of our listed house and I do believe it may be the one in the background of this picture. See what you think. We know the house is old and we've asked for a local expert to help us determine if the house is indeed the one we have listed now.

65 Mulberry Quitman AR