Baldwin's Salisbury, North Carolina City Directory [1949], Part 1

Author: Baldwin Directory Company.
Publication date: 1949
Publisher: Baldwin Directory Co. and The Salisbury Post
Number of Pages: 926


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THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA PRESENTED BY Rowan County Public Library


C971.80 S16b1 1949


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BALDWIN'S Salisbury NORTH CAROLINA


City Directory


MASTER EDITION


Volume 3


1949


ABCD No. 159


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CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF ALL RESIDENTS 16 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER, WITH DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING EACH; A NUMERICAL HOUSEHOLDERS' DIRECTORY AND STREET GUIDE; A CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY WITH SPECIAL LISTINGS FOR NATIONALLY ADVERTISED BRANDS, AND A COMPLETE BUYERS' GUIDE, CIVIC SECTION, A RURAL ROUTE DIRECTORY, AND A NUMER- ICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY.


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A COMPLETE BUYERS' GUIDE, CIVIC SECTION, PROFESSIONAL BLUE BOOK, NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY AND A RURAL ROUTE DIRECTORY


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DISTINCTIVE ABCD A BALDWIN CITY DIRECTORY


1949 POPULATION


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Salisbury, Spencer and East Spencer 32,298


This population secured by an actual count of persons residing in territory covered by a House-to-House Canvass under Baldwin's Modern ABCD plan.


HONOR ROLL


AND INDEX TO DISPLAY SPACE


C971.80 S/461 1949


Aetna Loan & Finance Co. Rowan County Chapter __ American Red Cross


Appliance Service Co ... _See Buyer's Guide


Arnold's_


See Buyer's Guide


K. W. Arthur. See Buyer's Guide Bamby Bakers __ See Back Supplement Cover and Margin Lines


Bankett Tire & Battery


Co ._ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


C. Parx Barringer


Belk-Harry Co .. See Margin Lines and


Buyer's Guide


Bell Shoe Store


Bernhardt's Jewelry & Watch Repairing L. S. Bradshaw & Sons ____ See Buyer's Guide and Special Margin Lines


Broadwell Tile -See Buyer's Guide Brown - Smoot Typewriter Co .-. See Buyer's Guide


Brown Supply Co. _See Buyer's Guide W. A, Brown & Son Inc .__ See Buyer's Guide Builders Supply Co. Max Busby


T. K. Carlton


Carolina Camera Supply __ See Buyer's Guide Carolina Tire Co .-___ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide Carolina Ventilated Awning Co. Carolina Welding & Machine Works_ _See Buyer's Guide


J. W. Carpenter Agency


Walter Carter, Inc .____ See Back Supplement


Cover and Buyer's Guide


Catawba College See Buyer's Guide


Cheerwine Bottling Co. See Front Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Citizens Building & Loan Assn. See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide City Motor Co., Inc ____ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Hayden Clement


Frank S. Cline


See Buyer's Guide


Cline Shoe Service Dr. Jas. C. Coffey


Coggins -- Krider Motor


T. N. Cohen _See Buyer's Guide Cohen Plumbing & Heating


Co .. See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


H. M. Cooke Pharmacy


Coughenour & Coughenour Craige & Craige Crescent Motor Co. See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


D & M Coal & Fuel Co .____ See Front Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide


Darling Slipper Shop __ See Classified Card Davis-McNair Furnace Co. _. See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Stokes Devereux Cleaners


Dixie Radio Service See Buyer's Guide Duke Power Co. -See Inside Front


Supplement Cover Durham Life Insurance Co. Edwin Earle. see Buyer's Guide East Spencer Motor Co .__ See Buyer's Guide W. L. Elium & Lee McIntire __ See Buver's Guide


Eller-Wood Florist. See Buyer's Guide Empire Hotel Clinton Eudy


F & W Sporting Goods


Co., Inc .____ See Back Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide


Family Studio


See Margin Lines and


Buyer's Guide


Farmers & Merchants Bank.


___ See Margin


Lines


Firestone Stores First Baptist Church


The First National Bank


See Front


Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide J. E. Fisher-Genl Ins .-. -See Margin


Lines and Buyer's Guide


Fisher Upholstery


Co .____ See Buyer's Guide


The Flower Shop


See Margin Lines and


Buyer's Guide


Foil Motor Co.


See Margin Lines and


Buyer's Guide


Freeman Insurance Agency, Inc .__ See Buyer's Guide, Directory Back- bone, and Supplement Backbone Frank W. Fuller


Fulton Street Pharmacy __ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Gables


Gem Automatic Gas Co., Inc .__ See Buyer's Guide General Ins. & Loan Co .__ See Buyer's Guide Goodman Lumber Co .____ See Buyer's Guide and Supplement Tag Guyes-Betty Lou-See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Hardiman & Son, Inc .-


__ See Margin Lines


and Buyer's Guide E. L. Hardin & Co. -See Margin Lines Hardin Electric & Supply Inc .__ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


The Harris Granite Quarries Co. -See Margin Lines Hobson Reynolds and Buyer's Guide Hartman & Cline Cabinet Shop __ See Buyer's Guide


Hatley's. See Buyer's Guide


Haynes Motor Co. See Margin Lines Hedrick Auto Co., Inc. -- See Margin Lines


and Buyer's Guide


Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Home & Garden Supply Co. Home Building & Loan Assn .____ See Back Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Home Ice & Fuel Co .__ See Back Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide


Hospital Care Assn. Inc. Hudson & Hudson Innes Street Drug Co. See Front Supplement Cover, Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Isenhour Brick & Tile Co., Inc .__ See Margin Lines


Isenhour-Freeman Insurance & Realty Co.,. See Special Margin Lines Jacobs Auto Body Shop __ See Buyer's Guide A. L. Jarrell & Sons See Buyer's Guide Johnson Metal Co .. See Buyer's Guide Kirby Sales & Service


Dr. Frank W. Kirk Kirk's Taxi Charles T. Kluttz_ See Margin Lines and


Buyer's Guide T, & S Furniture Co., Inc __ See Margin Lines W. H. Leonard, Jr .- Jewelers __ See Margin Lines


___ See Margin Lines and Lilly Nash Motors. Buyer's Guide Lingle Electric Repair Shop ____ See Buyer's Guide


GIFT OF ROWAN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY


Guide


L. T. Holshouser-Jeweler.


See Front


Co


See Margin Lines and Buyer's


HONOR ROLL-continued


Linn & Shuford


Livingstone College.


See Buyer's Guide


Maeder Cabinet & Fixture Co .__ See Buyer's Guide


Main Drug Co See Margin Lines


See Margin J. P. Mattox Ins. Agency. Lines and Buyer's Guide C. A. Mayfield Furniture Co .- See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide Maynard Music Co .__ See Front Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide


McCanless Motor Co, Inc .. _See Margin


Lines and Buyer's Guide


W. M. McCulley


McGinnis Motor Co. See Buyer's Guide Medical Center Pharmacy A. C. Menius Co.


Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.


Mid-Carolina Broadcasting Co., Inc ___ _See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide Clancy Miller-Florist ____ See Buyer's Guide Modern Finance Corp .__ See Classified Card Moskins Credit Clothing


Robie Nash Body Co .____ See Margin Lines


and Buyer's Guide


Nehi Beverage Co. See Special Margin Lines Dr. Harold H. Newman


Newsom Jewelers See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


B. C. Newsome Roofing Co .____ See Buyer's Guide


R. W. Norman Co., Inc .. -See Back


Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Norman's Watch Shop ____ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


N. C. Employment


Security


Comm.


Norwood School of the Dance __ See Buyer's


Guide


Oakes Motor Co., Inc.


Oestreicher Dept. Store Office Equipment Co .. _See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Owen Inc .____ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Parish Clothing- See Margin Lines


Geo. C. Peeler Funeral Home ____ See Front Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Pet Dairy Products Co .____ See Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Piedmont Insurance & Realty Co.


Piedmont Radiator Works


See Buyer's


Guide


Pilot Insurance & Realty Co.


Pilot Life Insurance Co.


Hugh D. Pinkston Co .__ See Buyer's Guide See Buyer's Guide Plyler Florist


Powles Funeral Home and Buyer's Guide


Paul Propst-Tailor. See Buyer's Guide


Purcell Drug Co., Inc .. See Margin Lines Purcells-Richard Dobkin __ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Radio Hospital.


See Buyer's Guide


Ramsey Realty & Ins. Co .__ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Raney Motor Co. See Margin Lines Dr. Max Rones Rowan Appliance Co .. ____ See Buyer's Guide and Special Margin Lines


-See Margin Lines


Rowan Coop Dairy Inc .. and Buyer's Guide


Rowan County


Rowan


County Welfare Dept.


See Buyer's Guide Rowan Furnitu


Rowan


Furniture Exchange ____ See Margin


Lines and Buyer's Guide Rowan Printing Co., Inc .__ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Rowan Public Library Dr. D. R. Ruhlman


Rustin Furniture Co .__ See Back Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Salisbury Business College. See Buyer's Guide Salisbury Chamber of Commerce. -See


Buyer's Guide


City of Salisbury


Salisbury Commercial College


Salisbury Community Chest Inc. Salisbury Floor Covering Shop __ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Salisbury Granite Industries Inc.


Salisbury Hardware & Furniture Co ____ See Buyer's Guide Salisbury Ice & Fuel Co .__ See Buyer's Guide .


Guide


Salisbury Laundry


See Margin Lines


and Buyer's Guide Salisbury Lumber & Supply Co .__ See Back Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Salisbury Marble & Granite Co., Inc .__ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Salisbury Motor Co


See Margin Lines


and Buyer's Guide


Salisbury Pharmacy


The Salisbury Post.


See Buyer's Guide


Salisbury-Spencer Merchant's Assn.


Inc.


See Buyer's Guide


Salisbury Tile Co ..


See Buyer's Guide


The Salvation Army __


See Buyer's Guide


Security Bank & Trust Co. See Buyer's


Guide


Simpson Peacock Co., Inc.


See Buyer's


Guide Sloop Distributing Co .__ See Buyer's Guide Sou. Bell Tel & Tel Co.


Southern Dairies Inc .____ See Buyer's Guide Southern Radio Service __ See Buyer's Guide -- See Back Sparks Furniture Co., Inc ... Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Spencer Bros. .See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Spencer Post Office


Staf-O-Life Feed Co ____ See Buyer's Guide Star Laundry Inc .____ See Front Supplement Cover and Buyer's Guide Sterchi Bros.


Stoudemire Furniture Store ____ See Margin


Lines and Buyer's Guide Summersett Funeral Home .. _See Margin


Lines and Buyer's Guide Super Service Cleaners __ See Buyer's Guide and Special Margin Lines Superior Oil Co., Inc .____ See Buyer's Guide Swartz & Co. .See Margin Lines and


Buyer's Guide


Taylor Clay Products Inc. _ See Buyer's Guide Taylor Mattress Co .__ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Dr. Wm. C. Taylor


Thomas & Howard


See Buyer's Guide


Toms Drug Store


See Buyer's Guide


Torrence Studio


See Buyer's Guide


Trexler Bros. Inc.


See Margin Lines


and Buyer's Guide


Charles O. P. Trexler U. S. P. O.


Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.


Wagoner Construction Lines and Buyer's Guide See Margin


Walker Motor Co See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


Wallace Building Co.


See Buyer's Guide


Wallace Realty Co.


Wallace Motor Co


See Margin Lines


and Buyer's Guide


Geo. E. Weant


See Buyer's Guide


Mrs. Luther Weant __ Florist ____ See Buyer's Guide


_See Margin Lines


HONOR ROLL-continued


G. B. Weaver & Sons Elec. Co .__ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide Dr. Richard G. Wharton Woodson & Woodson Wright's Funeral Home Inc .____ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide Y. W. C. A.


Yadkin Fuel Co .____ See Buyer's Guide and Special Margin Lines


Yadkin Hotel B. L. Young Youngs Hardware & Electric Co., Inc .__ See Margin Lines and Buyer's Guide


INTRODUCTION


Baldwin Directory Company, Inc., publishers of your city directory, takes pleasure in presenting the 1949 edition to the general public. A large force of trained enumerators and solicitors worked diligently in the preparation of this volume and we are confident that the result is an authentic and useful city directory.


We have faith in the continued growth of your city and we believe that our directory will take its place as one of the vital instruments for the advancement of your community. Subsequent editions will be issued promptly and regularly.


This volume is an example of the ABCD type of city directory as originated and developed by the Baldwin Directory Company, Inc. In the modern business world with its greatly changed sales and credit sys- tems, the old type of directory has become completely obsolete. In adapt- ing the directory to modern conditions the Baldwin organization is the pioneer. The excellent city directory which your city now has is the result of the progressive spirit of this company and its accurate inter- pretation of modern business requirements.


SIX DIVISIONS OF THE BOOK


The principal parts of the Baldwin Directory are as follows:


1. The Buyer's Guide and Civic Section is made up of the adver- tisements of the leading business firms of the city, announcements of churches, clubs, lodges, associations and schools, and professional cards of public-spirited lawyers, physicians and dentists. The display spaces have been carefully grouped and indexed under headings which are de- scriptive of the business engaged in by each firm. The Buyer's Guide, when properly arranged and distributed, is of tremendous value in the building of business in the community.


2. The Resident Directory contains most of the data concerning the individual. The wife's name is given in parenthesis, and the number of dependents under 16 is shown as well as the ownership of homes. This is followed by position, place of employment and home address.


INTRODUCTION


3. The Householders' Directory contains a complete directory of streets and avenues, properly located, gives the names of all householders arranged as they come upon the streets and avenues, indicates ownership of property.


4. The Business Directory and List of Nationally Advertised Brands contains the names of all business firms, professional people and non- profit organizations, properly classified. In this division are also listed the names of nationally advertised brands of merchandise, with the name of the local agents or distributors.


5. The Numerical Telephone Directory contains telephone numbers arranged in numerical sequence ..


6. Rural Route Directory contains names of all rural residents.


SPECIAL ABCD FEATURES


The following valuable information which appears in the ABCD type of directory is not to be found in the old-style city directory:


Number of dependents under sixteen;


Designation of home ownership;


Nationally Advertised Brands;


Numerical Telephone Directory;


Telephone Numbers on Street Guide.


In addition to these valuable features, the ABCD type of directory is more conservatively styled, printed on better paper and more beauti- fully bound, arranged for more convenient use and contains a much more complete civic section. Directory stands are maintained in the business district for the use of the general public.


THE HOUSEHOLDERS' SUPPLEMENT


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After including every conceivable feature which would tend to make the directory as useful and attractive as possible, the originators of the ABCD type of directory made one more bold stroke-they established a' guaranteed HOME circulation for advertising matter by issuing the Householders' Supplement and delivering it to the homes of the commu- nity. Every advertisement which appears in a Baldwin Directory also appears in the Householders' Supplement, making the Baldwin Directory "America's greatest dollar-for-dollar advertising medium" today.


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Salisbury, Spencer and East Spencer


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2,980


1,048


880


1,182


1,395


2,854


97


865


1,066


1,675


2,695


406


290


14


1,525


3,061 1,032


40


104


2,675


222


50


32,298


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Salisbury NORTH CAROLINA


"Where Location Pays An Extra Dividend"


Salisbury, North Carolina, "Where Opportunity Greets You," a modern Southern City, is located in the heart of the industrial Piedmont Section of the South's most progressive state.


More than 24,000 people reside within its 5.19 square miles of incorporated area. while the suburban communities, including the towns of Spencer and East Spencer, place the urban population at approximately 32,500. The trading area of 25-mile radius has a population of approximately 150,000. As a trade center, Salisbury has a total of 311 retail outlets doing an annual business of $44,249,000.


Among the twenty cities in North Carolina with a population of more than 16,000 within their corporate limits, based on the Government Census of 1940, Salisbury was in 1949.


1st in per capita Retail Sales.


3rd in per capita Drug Sales.


5th in per capita Food Sales.


7th in per capita General Merchandise Sales.


5th in per capita Furniture, House, Radio Sales.


9th in Total Retail Sales, $44,249,000.00.


13th in per capita effective buying income, $35,545,000.00.


HISTORY


Salisbury and Rowan County share in the earliest history of this progressive state and it is a history that the descendants of the earliest settlers and the people of today may well be proud to tell the world. The County was first settled in 1720 by Protes- tants from Moravia and a few years later, Scotch and Irish migrated here from their mother country. These were later followed in 1745 by a steady flow of Germans.


The County of Rowan was established at the session of the general assembly of the province of North Carolina on March 27, 1753. Thirty counties in Western North Carolina were later formed from Rowan County. The first Court-the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions-met in Rowan in 1753, the same year of the organi-


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zation of the county. The first court house was erected in 1756 and old records dating back as far as 1750 are still in file in the office of the register of deeds. The deed for Salisbury Township was granted February 11, 1755, and it is a point of in- terest to note that as early as 1757 Salisbury boasted of traffic laws.


Salisbury and Rowan County were especially active during the Revolutionary War and in 1781 Lord Cornwallis made temporary headquarters here. General Nathaniel Greene occupied Salisbury immediately before the arrival of Cornwallis' army. In the spring of 1791 George Washington visited Salisbury.


Near Salisbury today stands the remains of one of the South's most outstanding relics-"The Old Stone House" -- a large building constructed of native granite, built somewhat in the style of a fort, and occupied by Michael Braun, the forerunner of many of the Browns in the city today.


A national cemetery is located in Salisbury in which Federal soldiers held prison- ers by the Confederacy here, Spanish American War veterans and World War veterans are buried.


"Boone's Cave," where the pioneer Daniel Boone sought refuge from the Indians, is located north of the city near the Yadkin River and "Old Trading Ford" on the Yadkin River, established before the Declaration of Independence, is also north of the city.


West of Salisbury, in the graveyard of the Old Third Creek Presbyterian Church, is the modest grave of Peter Stuart Ney, well-known school teacher who came to this country from France and is believed by many to be Marshal Ney, Napoleon's "right hand" man. He was supposed to have been executed for treason to Louis XVII of France, but many believe he escaped through conivance with the firing squad and then came to this country, taking up residence in North Carolina.


Andrew Jackson, at one time President of the United States, studied law in this city.


The mother of James K. Polk, eleventh President of the United States, was born and reared in Rowan County.


Mrs. Frances Christine Tiernan-Christian Reid, a writer of national reputation- was a native of Salisbury. She was author of the volume "The Land of the Sky," from which Western North Carolina derives the name "Land of the Sky."


GOVERNMENT


Since 1927 the city has operated under a City Council-Manager form of govern- ment. The Council is composed of five members elected at large. The Council elects a mayor from its own membership and appoints the City Manager, who is the ad- ministrative head of the city.


Salisbury has a municipal water system ample to supply pure water to care for the city's needs; a modern sewer system and disposal plant; efficient police depart- ment with every modern facility for the detection and prevention of crime.


The fire department has long been a source of pride to the city and through its efficiency has compiled throughout the past number of years an enviable record.


Salisbury and Rowan County has a well-organized health department, ranking among the best in the South.


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INDUSTRIAL


The fact that Salisbury is a manufacturing community of importance is evidenced by the presence of more than 90 diversified industries located here, manufacturing a very wide variety of products and giving employment to approximately 12,600 em- ployees with a total annual payroll of approximately $10,900,000.


Salisbury businesses have a highly diversified industrial structure. Soaps, combed yarns, cotton battings, shirtings, furniture, wash cloths, rubber rolls, hosiery, rubber hose, rubber printing plates, lumber and millwork, florists' supplies, packing plant products, flour and feeds, paving blocks, building ceramics, refrigeration equipment, beverage syrups, proprietary medicines, bakery products, castings and machine durable goods, printing and publishing, building and monumental granites, cotton and rayon finishing, and many other products and types of business help to make a rich indus- trial and commercial community.


Balfour Pink Granite, recognized as the hardest granite obtainable, is said to be quarried exclusively near Salisbury and has been used in the construction of monu- ments and buildings throughout the world.


POWER


Salisbury is located at the center of the immense system of the Duke Power Com- pany (including power dams and steam plants), which provides practically an un- limited source of power at exceptionally low rates. Anticipating possible demands for increased power in this area, an expansion program is underway increasing the capac- ity of the Buck plant in Rowan County to 190,000 K. W.


AGRICULTURE


Rowan County is the leading county in North Carolina in diversified farming. Sixty-five per cent of the farms are operated by owners. Excellent soil and climatic conditions favor the growth of all kinds of vegetables, fruits and berries. Rowan leads the South in the growing of Lespedeza and leads the state in the production of wheat (in the number of acres and production per acre). Rowan County also leads the state in the production of Guernsey cattle.


Every important highway has high tension electric service, bringing this conveni- ence to a majority of farm owners, and an active program is under way to extend this service.


DISTRIBUTION


Probably no city in the South has better distribution facilities than Salisbury. The Spencer Transfer, the largest freight transfer terminals south of Philadelphia, are lo- cated at the Southern Railway's plant, where merchandise is assembled from 'all over Piedmont North Carolina, unloaded and reloaded into through package cars and trains going to the principal commercial centers of the United States.


Exceptional facilities are offered by express service. Modern well-paved high- ways radiating in all directions give additional weight to Salisbury's claim as a dist tributing center and afford speedy motor express service to all points.


A modern airport, equipped with all necessary service facilities and with one of the largest hangars in the state, is located just three miles from the city. Terminal


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