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HILL'S GREENSBORO (NORTH CAROLINA) CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1929 XVII
CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS CON- CERNS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS, A DIRECTORY OF HOUSE- HOLDERS, OFFICE BUILDINGS AND BUSINESS PLACES, INCLUDING A COMPLETE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE
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GENERAL INDEX
Page
Abbreviations 96
Alphabetical Directory 97
Apartment Buildings 742
Associations and Clubs-Commercial 743
Banks
746
Buildings-Office and Public.
750
Buyers' Directory
21
Cemeteries
751
Churches
752
City Government
257
Classified Directory
741
Clergymen
754
Clubs
756
County Government
263
Courts
263
Elks
219
Fire Department
257
Halls 767
Homes and Asylums 768
Hospitals and Dispensaries 768
ICOF 307
Index to Advertisers 8
Insurance Companies
769
Junior O U AM 327
Knights of Pythias 337
Libraries 259
Mascnic Orders 366
Mocse Loyal Order of 397
Parks and Playgrounds 784
Police Department
258
Preface
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Schools-Public 791
Schools, Colleges and Academies 792
Societies 793
Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders. 585
United States Post Office 536
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
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A & B Store 42
Hammel Wm C A ...... left top lines and 68
Hanes Funeral Home Inc ... 53
Alvis & Perdue Motor Co ... left bottom lines and 35 Hanner Bros ... Armfield Motor Co. . right side lines and 31 .left top lines and 59 Hardie Jack W Inc. 83 Hargett Funeral Parlors.
Atlantic Bridge Co Inc. .right bottom lines and 52
Auto Tire Accessory Co ... left side lines and 29 Bales & Truitt Inc. . right side lines and 27 Beaman R J & Co. . left bottom lines and 23 Benner & Fields ..... right top lines and 85 Biddell Harry G .... right top lines and 85
Big Frosty Bottling Co .. 40
Brooks-Wilson Co.
.right bottom lines and 74 77
Brown Geo C & Co ...... back cover and Burgess & Grissom Motor Co. 35 Burroughs Adding Machine Co. 24 Hunt Brothers Bynum H F. 73 Hurdle Motor Co. left side lines and
Callum-Sapp Inc. 61 Hutton Frank R. front cover and Jefferson Motors Inc .. 91 33
Campbell Walter E .... left side lines and 74 Carlton Phil R Inc .... left side lines and 67
Carolina Insurance & Loan Agency. .. Carolina Steel & Iron Co. 3
67
Carolina Warehouse. 57 Jewel Box The.
Central Industrial Bank.
right side lines and 37 Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co .... 95 Citizens Coal Co ...... left side lines and 45 Columbia Laundry Co.
.. right bottom lines and 75
Cooper Insurance Service Inc .. .right side lines and 71
Craven E F Co .... left bottom lines and 47
Crescent Chevrolet Co.
Daniel & Stabler. .right top lines and 36
Dick's Laundry Co ...... back cover and
75
Direct Advertising Service. left top lines and 24
Dixie Fire Insurance Co 62 28
Dixie Sales Co. .
Dorsett's Gun Key & Lock Shop 77
Durham Life Insurance Co. . 71
Eagle Coffee Shop ... right side lines and 93 49
Edwards Dry Cleaning Co.
Ellis Sign Co. . 94 22
Fetter A W. right top lines and Five Points Motor Co, right top lines and Franklin-Knight Motor Co ..
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right top lines and 31
Franks J D. front cover and 87 Fry & Stevens. . top edge and 63 Gate City Building & Loan Assn. .left bottom lines and 41 Gate City Motor
right bottom lines and 30 Gordon's Restaurants Inc. . 93 Greene Street Grille. right side lines and 93
Greene Street Tire Co.
.right top lines and 28
Greensboro Auction & Salvage Co. 25 Greensboro Auto Electric Co 26 Greensboro Hardware Co. .left top lines and Greensboro Motor Car Co. back cover and 32 Greensboro Music Co. . left top lines and 81
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Greensboro Nehi Bottling Co ... 40 Greensboro Nurseries.
right side lines and 83
Greensboro Paint Co. . left side lines and Guaranty Loan Corp
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right bottom lines and Guardian Life Insurance Co of America . right top lines and Guilford Building & Loan Assn ..
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Phipps Hardware Co. . left top lines and Pickett Storage Battery Co .. 40 Piedmont Ice & Coal Co 46
Piedmont Motors Inc .. 36
Pilot Life Insurance Co. . front cover and 66
Poole & Blue Inc. front cover and 54
76 29 Z
Oettinger Lumber Co. . left side lines and Patterson Bros Inc.
Peerless Cleaners Inc.
. left top lines and 33 79 58 42
Philadelphia Battery Service Co. .right side lines and 25 59
42 70
.right side lines and 38 44 Moskins Credit Clothing Co. Mutual Insurance Agency The. .ribbon book mark and 65
National Cash Register Co The. left bottom lines and National Surety Co. . right side lines and New Method Laundry Co .. .. right side lines and New Process Tire Co. .. left top lines and New York Life Insurance Co North State Motors Inc ..
57 92 50 79 93 72 46
Moore A K Realty Co.
Moore-Mitchell Co .... left top lines and Morris Jas C.
Morris Plan Industrial Bank.
Michael-Bivens Electrical Co Inc. . left side lines and Miller Furniture Co .. . . right bottom lines and Millikan Realty & Insurance Co .. Milton R H Electric Co. . back cover and Monarch Machine & Mfg Co Inc ... .left bottom lines, 51 and
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Mail-Ad Folks The ..
Maness A M Furniture Co.
Mason J W & Co. .. left top lines, 71 and Matheson-Wills Real Estate Co.
Mayes Mary E Inc .... left side lines and Maynard Music Co ..
McClamroch Co The. right side lines and McIver Lock Co The ....
Meredith Novelty Shop.
Merrimon Insurance Agency
.right side lines and 69
Johnson-Forbis-Simmons Co.
Jones W H.
Keeley Institute The
King's Business College.
Koonts Henry V. . front cover and Krahnke F H jr .... left bottom lines and Kriegsman Bros ..... right side lines and Lambeth Insurance Agency .. .front cover and
Latham J E Co. .bottom edge and
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co .. .right side lines and 64 72 56 84 94 2 88 94 57 69 89 44 25 57 76 4 71 81 81 77 83
left bottom lines and
Home Detective Co Inc .. back cover and Hotel Annex
line inside front cover and 86 36
Holland Radio & Appliance Co Inc ... .. left top lines and 86 Hollowell-Gorham & Co.
22 .right top lines and Home Building & Loan Assn ... .right top lines and 41 48 60
... right bottom lines and 55
Heath B D Motor Co .right side lines and 32
Guilford Lumber Mfg Co. .right bottom lines and 41
.right side lines and 78 H & H Clothing Co 43
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Everett D H & Co ...... front cover and Farley Jas H .. 43
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Pullen A M & Co. 23
Star Credit Clothing Co
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Record Co The. . right bottom lines and 82 Starr Raymond ...
Redden Thomas Gresham Inc .. 72
State Industrial Bank. 39
Reliance Sales Co. 73
Robins & Weill .. .front edge, 70 and 91
Rock Creek Dairy Sales Co. right top lines and 48
Ross Harold L. . .right top lines and 52
Schiffman Jewelry Co ..
left side lines and 73 34
Sineath J I Garage. . right side lines and Smith Auditing Co. 24
Union Clothing Co
44
Vanstory Clothing Co .... back cover and Varner M S & Co.
43 60 87 45
Smith Tire Co ... 29 Walker Tom Co ..
Smoot W J ....... right bottom lines and 55 White Realty Co ........ front cover and Young John A & Sons. .right side lines and 83
Southern Public Service Co ... .left bottom lines and 46 Southern Real Estate Co. . backbone and 90 Younts-DeBoe Co.
State Investigation Agency Inc 49 Steed Turned Column Works. 95 53 Sykes Florists Inc .. T & H Motor Co ........ back cover and 35 94 Tatum-Dalton Transfer Co. 51
Thompson Inc .. right bottom lines and Turner's Transfer .... right top lines and U-Drive-It Co.
95 27
Smith Austin & Son. . left side lines and 80 Smith Chester Motor Co. 34
Vaughn's
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INTRODUCTION
HILL DIRECTORY CO., publishers of the Greensboro City Directory, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1929 edition of the Greensboro Directory.
Confidence in the continued growth of Greensboro's wealth, industry and population, and in the advancement of its municipal and social activ- ities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting Greensboro to the world.
The enviable place occupied by HILL'S directories in offices, stores, libraries and homes, has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Greensboro Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
Population
The estimated population of Greensboro is 59,262, based on the number of individuals' names in the alphabetical section of the directory, with due allowance for children and for women whose names are not listed separately from those of their husbands. Territory immediately adjacent, which is part of the city, as far as business and social life are concerned, is included in the directory.
Four Major Departments
The several essential departments are arranged in the following or- der :-
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 21 to 96, printed on tinted paper, con- tains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and profes- sional interests of Greensboro. These pages will be found particularly in- teresting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The advertise- ments have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference adver- tising at its best and, as such, merits a survey by all buyers anxious to famil- iarize themselves with sources of supply. The city's activities, in many in- teresting phases, are authentically pictured. In an ambitious and progres- sive community like Greensboro, the necessity of having this kind of infor- mation immediately available, is very great and, frequently, pressing. Gen- era! appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 97 to 584. Features of this section are the inclusion of the wife's name in parentheses following that of the husband, and the designation of colored persons with "(c)".
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, covers pages 585 to 738. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order; the residences and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of householders and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 741 to 797. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."
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Municipal Publicity
The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, de- picting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Greensboro, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.
The Greensboro Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Greensboro City Direc- tory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce for free reference by the general public. This is one of the 450 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the United States and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Publishers.
GREENSBORO
"Pivot of the Piedmont"
Form of Government-City Manager-Council.
Population-59,262. Native white, 79 %. Negroes, 21 %. American- born population, 98% of whole population
Area-17 square miles.
Altitude-843 feet.
Assessed Valuation-$105,594,954.
Parks-4, with 1,054 acres valued at $3,000,000.
City's Bonded Debt-$5,645,120.49.
Financial-6 banks, with total deposits of $25,415,673, resources of $36,349,069, and clearings of $312,689,000 annually.
Post-Office Receipts (1928)-$468,953.01.
Telephones in Service-9,491.
Churches-52, leading denominations.
Building and Construction-Value of building permits, $5,048,295, with 395 new dwelling units constructed (1928).
Real Estate- Number of homes, 12,100, with about 75% owned by occu- pants.
Industry -- 141 establishments, employing 8,700 workers, paying wages of $12,000,000 annually, and having products valued at $47,500,000 annually.
Trade-Territory (retail) serves 600,000 people in a trading area having a radius of 25 to 50 miles. Jobbing territory service 790,000 people with- in a radius of 75 to 100 miles.
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Newspapers-2 dailies, 1 weekly.
Hotels-8, with total of 900 rooms.
Railroads-2: Southern and A & Y., the latter connecting with Nor- folk-Southern, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air line and Norfolk & Western.
Amusements-Largest auditorium seats 1,985 persons. There are 8 theatres, with a total seating capacity of 6,000 persons.
Hospitals-8, with 400 beds.
Education-North Carolina College for Women, a $6,750,000 plant, a faculty of 180 and an enrollment of 1,867 regular students, in addition to 1,634 summer students; Greensboro College for Women, founded 1838, with an enrollment of 400; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College; Bennett College and Immanuel Lutheran College for the Negro Race; King's Business College, Greensboro Business School, and Greensboro Bible and Literary School. Number of preparatory schools, 24, including 2 high and 2 parochial. Number pupils in public schools, 10,271; in private, 150. Total of all teachers, 375. Value of all school property, private and public, ap- proximately $5,000,000. In the immediate vicinity are other well-known educational institutions, including Guilford College, five miles west of the city, a Friends' School of more than a hundred years standing, co-educa- tional, 300 students; value plant and endowment, $1,000,000. Eighteen miles east, Elon College, founded 1887, by the Southern Christian Conven- tion, co-educational, enrollment 396. Fifteen miles southwest, High Point College, Methodist Protestant, co-educational, enrollment 286. Eighteen miles northwest, Oak Ridge Institute, Junior R. O. T. C., 225 enrollment representing 12 states.
Volumes in Libraries-136,000.
City Statistics-Total street mileage, 270, with 138 miles paved and 15 under construction. Miles of gas mains laid, 96; of sewers, 130, and of elec- tric street railway, 16. Capacity of water works (municipal) 1,020,000,000 gallons (21,000,000 gallon reservoir) ; daily average pump, 4,000,000 gallons; standpipe capacity, 750,000 gallons; number of fire hydrants, 1,238; plant valued at $2,750,000. Fire department employs 58 men, with fully motor- izer equipment: in 5 station houses strategically located in the city. Value of fire department with property, $350,000. Police department has 58 men, with 1 station and 11 pieces of motor equipment.
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PITCAIRN AVIATION NORTH CAROLINA INC.
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The Regular Northbound Mail Plane at the Greensboro Airport, with New York-New Orleans Mail.
Greensboro
Some Notable Events of the Year in Greensboro
Establishment of a modern airport and the opening of air-mail service, with Greens- boro as one of the regular stops on the New York-New Orleans line.
Complete modernization of fire protection and water supply. the lowering of fire in- surance rates, and the winning of the prize awarded by the United States Chamber of Commerce for first place among cities of 50.000 to 100,000 population in the Inter- Chamber Fire Waste contest.
Initiation of a city-wide plan for the elimination of grade-crossings of railroads,
and the vigorous execution of this $2,000.000 project.
Adoption of a modern building code.
The continuation of a progressive pro- gram of street-widening and improvement.
The initiation of a $2,000,000 program of improvement in the public schools of the city. The extension of the school district to include most of the metropolitan area.
Appropriation secured for a new post- office and federal building, and the way cleared for its immediate construction.
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The Curry Building at North Carolina College for Women, Home of the School of Education and of the Training School.
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The Statue of General Nathaniel Greene on the Battleground of Guilford Court House.
Greensboro Today and Yesterday
Greensboro was incorporated in 1808, and the act of incorporation was the first sig- nificant event in its history, for there was only open country on the site until the county commissioners paid Ralph Gorrell $98 for 48 acres on which a new seat for Guilford County's capital was laid off, the court house in the center.
Before that time the county seat of Guil- ford, since the county was established in 1770, was at Martinsville, five miles to the north of Greensboro. The old court house site was the scene of the historic battle between the Continentals of General Na- thaniel Greene and the British Red Coats of Lord Cornwallis. The new county seat was named in honor of the great American mili- tary leader.
Even in those early days, Greensboro's central position in the state was the chief factor in its growth and remains so today. Here the main highways of the young state converged on the tiny village which sprang up around the crossroads, and as the state grew stronger, so Greensboro grew. Its his- tory was uneventful for many years. The first railroad came in 1856 and a second in Civil War days. Greensboro had only a few thousand people, but gave its share of men and supplies to the Southern cause, and it felt in full the exhausting poverty in men and resources, which killed all chance for growth in the days of reconstruction.
It was genuine reconstruction however, and there was the gradual accumulation of a reserve of new power. The opening of a new century found the city ready for its flowering. In the '90s came the Cones and, after them, other industrial and business leaders who have transformed the trading settlement into the modern city. Greensboro remains the most strategically located city in North Carolina and that position is a domi- nant influence on its manufacture as well as its trade. Its destiny has always been peculiarly that of the state, and North Caro- lina's amazing advances of recent years have been directly reflected in Greensboro. Here
is the meeting point for people, for raw ma- terials, for communication and for finished products.
Other factors are playing powerfully for Greensboro's advancement. The back-coun- try is a region of rich and diversified agri- culture and one which is rapidly showing further improvement. The entire region is thickly dotted with industrial communities which look to Greensboro as the central point for supplies and materials. Raw materials essential in major lines of manufacture are at its doors: cotton, hardwoods, clay pro- ducts, stone, wood pulp and the like. Native- born labor, intelligent, loyal and easily train- ed, is present in abundance. Electric power at reasonable rates and in any desired amount, is to be had. One of the chief factors is a progressive city and county government with a friendly attitude and a fair one. Climatic conditions are as ad- vantageous as can be found in the entire country. Neither excessive winter cold nor summer heat is experienced, and the year 'round, a pleasing, equable weather is ex- perienced. The average temperature is 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the average rainfall, 46 inches.
Greensboro lies at the center of the north section of the Piedmont, that great new kingdom of industry and business which runs through the middle of the South At- lantic States. It lies equally distant from New York and Atlanta, about 12 hours by train from each. It lies equally distant from the ocean on the east and the Caro- lina mountain border on the west.
"Pivot of the Piedmont"
Greensboro, "The Gate City" of the Pied- mont in other years, is now "The Pivot of the Piedmont," a focal point for the north- ern part of that great new kingdom of in- dustry, commerce and agriculture. Accept- ing the title in all due modesty, the city is seeking to offer its very best facilities in the public service owed by it on account of its unique position. A review of its ser- vice institutions reveals them to be the equal of any in the country.
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Southern Railway Passenger Station.
The city water department has an average daily pump of around 4.000.000 gallons, this coming from a billion-gallon reserve on Reedy Fork Creek, and coming through a completely modernized plant from pumping station to water meter. Recent installations afford a maximum daily pumping capacity of 28,000,000 gallons. This reserve strength, together with a splendid fire department, affords the last word in fire protection. The quality of water supply and fire protection were the chief factors in the city's securing, last year, lowered fire insurance rates, and also in its winning the national fire waste prize for cities from 50.000 to 100,000 popu- lation, as awarded by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
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