At least four church steeples can be seen -- the back of the Cathedral of St. Andrew at the right. The Masonic building burned in 1920.

Ray Hanley is a retired health care and IT executive, historian, producer of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's "Postcard Past" feature and author of 20 Arkansas history books.

The motorist with a bear on his hood was parked at the Happy Hollow outdoor photo studio located on what is today Fountain Street, behind the hotel. The business kept a black bear, usually on a chain, ...