The postcard was sitting in the gift shop next to the Daisy Dollars and the leg lamp keychains. Black and white. Old corner building. Didn’t feel like anything special at the time.
It didn’t click right away, but this Daisy Airgun postcard in Rogers, Arkansas ended up being one of those moments where everything lines up a little too perfectly. We picked it up, looked at it, and realized pretty quickly that we were already standing in the same building it was showing — just decades later.
Daisy Airgun Postcard — Rogers, Arkansas, 1941
The postcard shows the Corner Drug Store as it looked in 1941 — back when this building was a working pharmacy owned by Harold Applegate, who bought it in 1925 and ran it until his death in 1951. He had it long enough to cover the entire side wall with what he was selling: Wines & Liquors, Sodas, Cigars, Candies, and Curb Service.
There’s a Coca-Cola sign painted on the brick, a man on a ladder working on the facade, and Juhre’s Meat Market around the corner — a business that opened in 1900 and closed sometime in the early 1940s.
This wasn’t just a random vintage postcard. It was produced by The Friends of the Rogers Historical Museum using a photo from the museum — and sold inside the same building it was documenting.
We bought a piece of the building’s history while standing inside it.
We just didn’t know it when we bought it.
Recreating the Scene in Rogers
We weren’t even in Rogers for the museum. We were there for Flashback Pizza. The Daisy Airgun Museum ended up being a bonus stop because the World’s Largest BB Gun had been on our list for a while.
The giant Red Ryder is attached to the museum, which is attached to this corner building — the same one that, back in 1941, was advertising Coca-Cola, curb service, and liquor along the side wall.
We picked up the postcard in the gift shop and recognized the building right away. Same corner, same layout — just from a different time.
So we stepped outside, crossed Walnut Street, and lined it up — the roofline matched, the corner matched, the second-floor windows were still exactly where they’d always been. It didn’t take much to see it once we were standing in the right spot.
What Changed, What Stayed the Same
The bones are identical — same corner placement, same second-floor windows, same roofline detail. The structure hasn’t gone anywhere, and from the right angle, it’s immediately recognizable.
What changed is everything built around it. The dark brick has been painted. The painted advertisements are gone, replaced with museum signage and the oversized Red Ryder attached to the building. Businesses shifted, names changed, and what used to be a working pharmacy is now part of a museum space.
Juhre’s Meat Market — open since 1900 and gone by the early 1940s — has long since been replaced. The activity that used to define the corner has been swapped out for something entirely different, even though the building itself stayed put.
Harold Applegate ran his pharmacy here for decades. The Daisy Airgun Museum has been part of this space since 1990. Different purpose, different era — same corner.
This post is part of our Postcard Time Machine series — vintage postcards recreated at roadside stops across America.
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Want more on the museum itself? Read our full post about
the Daisy Airgun Museum and the World’s Largest BB Gun.
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