Who were they?I'm curious. This is another one of Elvin Davenport's pictures. As we have repeated several times, Elvin walked or rode his bike all around the city of Searcy and the surrounding towns way back in the 50's and 60's. He carried his camera and snapped pictures all the time. Sherry
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03/31/2018
We have shown several Elvin Davenport old photographs, loaned by Sherry Quattlebaum Person, on this blog. Reportedly, he roamed the countryside on his bike with his camera handy and loved taking pictures of trains. These two say Kensett on the depots even though you have to enlarge them to re
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03/27/2018
Spring Park in Searcy AR??Yes, we do think so. This is another of the Davenport photos loaned to us by Sherry Person and taken years ago by Elvin Davenport, a young man who rode around the countryside and citysides and took pictures with his camera. This appears to be looking East across Main S
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03/20/2018
Girls ride bikes on the sidewalk is Searcy AR?We have shown several other pictures taken by Elvin Davenport as he roamed around Searcy and surrounding towns on his bike in the approximate 50's and 60's. Reportedly, the first two girls shown here are Clydell Neal and Mary Kay VanPatten. The que
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03/19/2018
See if your situation is the same as mine. I had 8 mm film of kids. I had the film transferred to VHSs. VHSs are now practically extinct so I had them transferred to CDs. I had lots of old family photos and I had them copied for family members..... AND I had to send them all off each time.NO
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03/15/2018
Worth noticing is this old 1979 phone book from Searcy AR. It turned up at a sale where folks kept lots of items, including this old phone book. Imagine our surprise to find two phone numbers in this book. One was for Duncan, Rodger W. (Wives didn't count back then but I lived there too.) And
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03/07/2018
1965 photo of yard and small houses.Here's another interesting picture loaned by Sherry Person from her dad's collection. Her dad, Ivan Quattlebaum, was a history lover and saved everything. These pictures, we have found, are from a collection of snapshots possibly taken by a long-ago resident
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03/03/2018
