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Photo Album

Album Name: Vintage Photos, Vol. 3 Return to Albums
Album Date: Feb 9, 2011
Description: Vintage Photos of Baxter County and the Twin Lakes area.
(click an image to enlarge and start a slide show)
Cotter High School Band, Fair Parade, 1958. Cotter High School Band, Fair Parade, 1958. This photo was made from a negative in the Ray Grass collection. It was marked Athel and Helen Dooley, 1940s, Dooley's Store in Mountain Home. Players on the 1915 Buford Baseball team.
Fair Queen and Maids, 1959: Dianne Nystrom, Donnie Dilbeck and Willadean Stevens. Hiram Lonon at the Cotter Cooperative Store, about 1930. Cotter Bridge under construction, late 1920s-1930. Cotter Bridge under construction, late 1920s-1930. Cotter Bridge under construction, late 1920s-1930.
Mountain Home Beauty Salon, 1947-48. Standing: Velga Vanzandt and Ruby Jones. The lady under the hair dryer is Mrs. Evans (who owned the Evans Theater). 1961-62 Boy Scout Troop. Can you tell who these guys are? A full caption will be posted in the January-March 2011 quarterly. Watch for it! Before there ever was a Lake Norfork. That's the Henderson Bridge, which is now under water. The Old America Parade entry at the first Baxter County Fair, held at the Fairgrounds in Buford in 1911. The Young America entry for the Buford Fair parade, 1911. The girls were dressed in white, with red and blue sashes. The wheel spokes were covered with red, white and blue streamers. Very patriotic!
The Cotter Train Depot. Dr. and Mrs. Rollins in front of the Rollins Hospital in Gassville. Main Street in Gassville in the early 1900s. Interior shot of Hardy's Fisherman's Inn at Lakeview. This was a great place to eat.
Exterior shot of Hardy's Fisherman's Inn at Lakeview. Denton Hotel at Gassville, early 1900s. 2/16/1952: Sheriff J.D. King present badges to Junior Deputies Earl Crawford, Bobby Crawford (both from Clarkridge), Dean Rorie (Mtn. Home), Donald Hall (from Old Joe) and Bob Harrison (Mtn. Home). Taft Green is in the background. The Lathrop Lodge on Lake Norfork. The Leffel J. Smith store at Henderson (location is now under Lake Norfork).
North side of the square in Mountain Home. Cedar Grill Motel, one block north of the square in Mountain Home (on the west side of Main Street). Back in the day, it was called The Peoples Bank (now First Security Bank on Ninth Street in Mtn. Home). The Willow Court on Hwy. 62 East (where Town East Centre is now). Looking North up Main Street (intersection of Main, 8th, and US 62B), around 1937.
The Mountain Home Band, 1920s, from the Ray Grass collection. Photo was marked The Mountain Home Band, July 4, 1900. The bass drummer is George Kirkwood and “Peck Haley” (Edwin Thomas) is on the snare drum. Standing are: Laurel Talbert, Cliff Livingston, Henry Aylor, Vin Truman, Emmett Case, Rudolph Brown and Don Casey. The man in the suit is unidentified. Nelson's Ferry across the White River. Shady Grove Basketball team, 1924-25. Third from left is Cleo Movie Poster from the silent movie
A movie The outlaw gang from Trotlining on the White River. Cotton Day, 1912, north side of the square (looking east) in Mountain Home. A cotton field at Mountain Home. From the Ray Grass collection. Negative was marked
Pilgrim’s Rest School (Monkey Run School) about 1916, located about ¾ of a mile west of the Four Sisters Store. Family names are: Carson, Dilbeck, Fisk, Hodges, Lackey, Marler, Martin, Megee, Messick, Powell, Sinor, Stafford, Trimble, White. The teacher, Miss Arkie Owens, is at the right. From the Keller Collection; flood conditions at Cotter, 1927. From the Keller Collection: DeVall Day, a cream separator was given away by Mack Curlee; band house is on the left; Mtn. Home square. From the Keller Collection; labeled From the Keller Collection: Saturday afternoon on the Mountain Home Square.
South side of the square in Mountain Home, 1949. Hwy. 62 Ferry, looking from the West side of the lake. School at Jordan, late 1800s. Railroad Day Parade, Nov. 26, 1914.
   

 

 

 

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