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1421 Battle Ground Ave. PHONE 2-2175
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Phone 3-6921
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(GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C.)
CITY DIRECTORY
Vol. 1950 XXXV
Including Bessemer, Guilford College, Hamilton Lakes, Pomona and Starmount Forest
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide; also a
BUYERS' GUIDE
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GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations .Pages 24 and 25
Alphabetical List of Names Page 25
Apartment Buildings Classified Section
Banks and Trust Companies Classified Section
Buildings-Office and Public .Classified Section
Bus and Coach Lines-Motor Classified Section
Buyers' Guide following Alphabetical on Goldenrod Paper
Cemeteries
Classified Section
Churches
Classified Section
Classified Business Directory .following Buyers' Guide on Canary Paper
Clergymen
Classified Section
Clubs
Classified Section
Convents .Classified Section
Greensboro-City of-Board of Education Alphabetical Section
Greensboro-City of-Fire Department Alphabetical Section
Greensboro-City of-Government Alphabetical Section
Greensboro-City of-Police Department Alphabetical Section
Guilford County Government Alphabetical Section
Halls Classified Section
Homes and Asylums Classified Section
Hospitals and Dispensaries Classified Section
Hotels
Classified Section
Libraries Classified Section
Museums
Classified Section
Newspapers Classified Section
North Carolina State Government Alphabetical Section
Organizations-Benevolent and Fraternal Classified Section
Organizations-Business Classified Section
Organizations-Patriotic
Classified Section
Parks and Playgrounds
Classified Section
Railroads
Classified Section
Schools-Parochial
.Classified Section
Schools-Public
Classified Section
Schools, Colleges and Academies
Classified Section
Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders
following Classified on Pink Paper
United States Government Alphabetical Section United States Government Post Office Alphabetical Section
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION
Page
A-1 Venetian Blind Mfg Co
171
Adamson Cadillac-Olds Co night side lines and 3
Allied Lumber Products Inc. . left side lines and 122 Amos Ins Agency backbone, left
side lines and 98
Anderson W 1 & Co.
. left top cards and
146
Art Shop Inc The right bottom cards
141 and 142
Aspden Associates right side lines and 113
Atlantic Builders Supply Co Inc
right
side lines and 28
Atlantic Coal & Oil Co
.right
top lines and 135
Atlantic Insulation Co Inc
right
side lines and 95
Atlantic Life Ins Co
97
Brainbridge-Dance Well Drilers
left
top cards and 49
Bakers Auto Service 17
Ballard's Auto Service 17
Bank of Greensboro
25
Banks Clothing Co left side lines and 40
Barnes H D Ine right bottom lines and 49
Baxter Furniture Co left side lines and 83
Baylor's Insurance Service Inc right side
lines and
108
Beaman's Inc right side lines and 172
Beane Lumber Co left side lines and 126
Beauford L O left side lines and 59
Beck Motor Co right bottom lines and 12
Belk's Department Store left bottom
lines and
65
Benner & Fields right side lines and 142
Berry Coal Co Inc 43
Berry's Used Auto Parts Co right
side lines and 18
Bessemer Improvement Co
. left
bottom lines and 151
Binswanger & Co Inc front cover . left
top lines and 87
Blue Bell Inc right bottom cards and 137 Bluebird Taxi of Greensboro Ine . 168
Bob's Sea Food Market 162
Bontiz Insulation Co The lift side lines and 97
Bowling Sound Service right side lines and 73
Boroman-Smith Auto Upholstery Shop 18
Brewer Paint & Wallpaper Co Inc left
Greensboro Coca-Cola Bottling Co right bottom cards and 59 bottom cards and .79
Brogdon-Harvell Bronze Foundry left
Brown-Hamel Mortgage Co Inc .left
bottom lines and 156 top cards and
Brown's Funeral Directors 83
Bryant's Fuel Oil Co right side lines and 80
Burtuer Furniture Co 86 bottom cards and . right Butler Bros Construction Co right Greensboro Motor Co left side lines and 6 50 Greensboro News Co left side lines and 132 top lines and Campbell's Garage 18 Greensboro Printing Co Inc .left
Carolina Sales & Engineering Co Inc 28 Works 159
Carolina Steel & Iron Co Inc B Cecil Contrancting 59 top lines and 163
Central Floral Gardens left side lines and 76 Groome Tire Co 20
Central Oil Co right bottom lines and 80 Gross Upholstering Co 81
Chandler Motor Co right side lines and 4
Citizens Loan & Finance Co left side lines and 122 City Industrial & Savings Bank left
top lines and 25
City Lumber Co 124
City Welding & Supply Service Co right side lines and 175
Clegg-King Motors Inc right side lines and 12 bottom lines and . 75
Clendenin Kemp C 156 Coble H L Construction Co back cover .left bottom lines and . . . 44
Coble Sporting Goods Co Inc right side lines and 164
Commercial Credit Corp 121
Commercial Electric Co 50
Continental Motors Inc 13
Cooper W A & Son Lumber Co right bottoni lines and 124 Cox Radiator Co 7
Craven E F Co C
Crawford Paint Co left top cards and 51
Crutchfield-Browning Drug Co 68
D & W Auto Glass Shop 89 Danjohn's right top lines and 161
Davis Starr Co left bottom lines and 96
Davis Tire Co Inc right side lines and 19
Dependable Machine Co Inc .. 127 cover and
Dick's Laundry Co front cover and 119
Dickson Transfer Co Inc . 170
Dillard Paper Co right top cards and 140
Dixie Sales Co left side lines and
13
Dixon & Christopher Co Inc right side lines and
143
Dixon Ice Co Inc
95
Dize Awning & Tent Co left bottom cards and
Dockery Lumber Co .
126
22
Downs John O back cover and 112
Duke Power Co back cover and 147
Edmonds Summit Center Drug Store right
top card and 68
Ellis-Stone & Co. 65
Emory N B left side lines and 160
Eubanks Upholstery Co 19
Felicia Studios of Dance right top lines and
63
Ferree J S Sr
59
Ferree Motor & Equipment Co 19
Findley W M Heating Co 93
Fleming-Shaw Transfer Co Inc bottom lines and 170
Forbis & Murray Funeral Home Inc . right
top lines and
81
Foxworth Norman E
116
Franklin K C Co The right top cards and 166
Frazier Piano Co Inc 142 Friendly Broom Work 26
19
Fry Fielding L & Co Inc top stencil and 100
Frye & Webster Cleaners left side lines and . .
69
Gate City Paint Company 139
Gate City Roofing Co Inc
159
5 Gate City Motor Co Inc right top line and Gate City Savings and Loan Association ... left side lines and 132
General Insulating Corp left side lines and .. 96
Gibbs Machine Co right side lines and 79 77 Gilliam's Florist right top cards and 51 52 68 20 23
Greensboro Bonded Warehouse Inc right
top cards and
173
Greensboro Broadcasting Co Inc
right
top cards and
149
Greensboro Central Labor Union
118
top lines and . 26
42
Greensboro Mattress Co right side lines and
Greensboro Metal Awning Co Ine
23
bottom lines and 145
Griffin J H & Sons Roofing & Sheet Metal
Griffin Roscoe Shoe Co Inc
right
Guaranteed Waterproofing Co 29 and 53
Guilford Builders Supply Co Inc . left top lines and 29
Guilford Memorial Park Inc left top cards and 34
Guilford Mortgage Co 156
Guilford Plumbing & Heating Co Inc 145
Guilford Tractor & Implement Co right
H & H Clothing Co right side lines and 39
Hall-Putnam Clothing Co Iac right
top lines and 40
41 Ham Coal Co backbone left side lines and Ham Leon M 156
Hanes Funeral Home Inc front cover and 82
Hardia Oil Co right bottom lines and 80
Henderson H A left bottom cards and 53 22 61
Hertz Driv-Ur-Self System Inc
Hickory Dale Goat Dairy right side lines and Hodge Emile Appliance Inc right
94
bottom lines and right Hodgin Roofing & Supply Co Inc 160 side lines and Holden Recapping Co right side lines and 20
Holt's Snack Bar
Home Federal Savings & Loan Assn
. hack
158
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Home Security Life Insurance Co 107 Home Service Venetian Blind Co 172
.left
Fruitt Paint & Body Shop
Gate City Electric Co Inc
73
Gold Star Company Inc right bottom cards and Grantham Waterproofing Co left top lines and Greene St Drug Co left bottom lines and Greensboro Auto Parts Co Inc left side lines and Greensboro Bay Co
Greensboro Ice & Coal Co right side lines and Greensboro Marble & Lile Co . right 52 83
Carlton Phil R Inc left bottom lines and 99
Carolina Jack Service 18
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
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Hospital Care Association Inc The-Durham NC. . right side lines and 107
Hughey Tile Company left top lines and 54 Huntley I Clothing Co 39 Ingram Motor Co right side lines and 14 Robbins John Motor Co Ritter's Flower Shop right side lines and 78 21 176 97 139
Jamestown Insurance Agency Inc 110 Roberts Cbas D Co right bottom cards and Rock Wool Insulating Co of N C
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co stencil and A Rogers Paint Products Inc
Jennings Plumbing Co . 143
Johannesen Electric Co Inc 7:2
Jobnson G E 70
Jones Amoco Service Station 3 Jones Bros Bakery Inc left side lines and 23 Schenck Paul W Agency
Jones-Lewis Furniture Co Inc The
84
Kane George W front cover and
45
Kearns Paint Co Inc left side lines and Kellett Harry D Inc left top lines and
138
Scott Seed Co left side lines and Seaside Grill ...
Seawell Realty & Insurance Co 157
Seburn's left side lines and 116
Security National Bank bottom stencil and Shafter Construction Co
24 60
Sills Robert A Co Inc left side lines and Smith Concrete Block Co right side lines and 32
Smith-Douglass Co Inc left top lines and 75
Smith Ivy H Co 74
Smith S C Plumbing & Heating Inc right
Sonny Service Oil Co left side lines and 1€ South Atlantic Bonded Warhouse left side and 173 Southern Converting Co Inc 117 Soutbern Dairies Inc right top cards and 62 Southern Life Insurance Co 111 74
Southern Mapping & Engineering Co Southern Plate & Window Glass Co .. . back cover right top lines and 88
Southern Sales Inc left top cards 17 and 95
Southern Waterproofing Co .left side lines 60 and 174 92
Southside Hardware Co Inc right side lines and Springfield's Flowers 78
Staley Lumber Co 126 Stamper Optical Co right
bottom lines and 136
Stanley R L Electric Co right top lines and 73
Starr Electric Co Inc front cover left
top lines and 71
Starr & Welker
60
State Farm Ins Companies right side lines and 111
Stevens Insurance Inc left side lines and 109 Stewart Motors Inc right top cards and 10 Stone Joseph J & Co right side lines and 134
Strickland Realty & Mortgage Co 155
Sullivan W H Co Inc front and back lip
margins right side lines and 16 Sutton's Florists Inc right side lines and 77 78 Talley Electric Co left bottom cards and 57
Tatum-Dalton Transfer Co right bottom lines and
174
Taylor John R Co. . . left hottom lines and 57
Thomas Ed J Transfer left top cards and 93 Thompson-Arthur Const Co Inc right bottom lines and 17
Thornton Refrigeration Co right side lines and 157
Traders Chevrolet Co Inc right top lines and 11 New Home Building Supply Co .left top cards 30 and 125 Truck Lease Service Inc 171
New Method Laundry back cover and 120 Truitt Manufacturing Co back cover right top
Newman Machine Co Inc . 128 cards and 167
North Carolina Equipment Co left
side lines and 128
North State Chevrolet Co Inc. left side lines and 9
Oakmont Inc right side lines and 56
Occidental Life Insurance Co 110
Odell Hardware Co . front cover right top lines andn 91
Office Supply Co .. .. left bottom lines and
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On Location Cleaners 161
Owen Construction Co left top cards and 60
Owen Harry R left bottom lines and 108
Warden Henry F right side lines 61 and 163 Warren's Inc right side lines and 170 Owen P D 157
Patton's Specializing Grocery 90
Peebles Electric Co left side lines and 74
Pegram-West Inc left top cards 31 and 130
Pennisi & Lowdermilk Inc 110
Phillip's Pure Oil Service Station 21
Phipps Hardware Co Inc left top lines and Pickett's Inc
72 3
Piedmont Auction Co
Piedmont Employment Service 74
Piedmont Insurance Agency
109
Piephoff Melvin Co 168
Pitts J R . Lumber Co Inc 127 Willard J A Co 129 Pittsburg Plate Glass Co .left Wills Book & Stationery Co 134
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co 111 and 106
Pure Oil Oo The left bottom lines and 135
Ready-Mixed Concrete Co right side lines and 43 Redden Thomas Gresham Ins 103
Regal Jewelers left side lines and 116
Richardson C E 158
Richardson Realty Inc right . bottom lines 105 and 152
Richardson Trailer Manufacturing Co 94
Richardson's Anto Service right side lines and 16
Rierson Bros left side lines and 175
Riser Printing Co Inc left bottom lines and 146
Royal Cleaners right side lines and 69 Rustin Furniture Co Inc left side lines and St Benedict's Catholic Church Saslow's Inc right top lines and 86 35 114 111 Schiffman Jewerly Co right side lines and 115 162 15
Kirk's Sineath Motor Co right
'bottom lines and 14
Kiser Radio & Appliance Co left side lines and 150 Kool Vent Metal Awning Co. . left top cards and Y Lakeview Memorial Park. 34
55
Lambeth Construction Co left top lines and
Lassiter J Hal
157
Lawndale Garage & Body Works 15 top lines and 144
Luois F D & Son Inc rigbt
bottom lines and 55
Lindley Nurseries Inc left top lines and 133 Lowdermilk R E & Son 154
Lowman Motor Co left side lines and 15
Lynch Motors Inc left top lines and 18
M & J Finance Corp left side lines and 121
Martin Co & Sons .. . left top cards and 56
Martin Furniture & Carpet Co left top card's and 85
Martin's Studio right bottom lines and 141
Marus Marble & Tile Co Inc 129
Matthews Lumber Co
125 68
McDade's Inc right bottom lines and
McLees Chas W
32
McRae Taxi
169
Medearis J Iva
168
Melvin Coal Co 79
Mendenhall Lumber Co Inc right
bottom lines and
30
Merrimon Insurance Agency Inc .right
side lines and 101
Meyer's Department Store left top lines and 64
Miller Furniture Co Inc. .. . left top lines and 86 Mitcbell J Elwood Co left top lines and 102 Modern Home Builders Supply Co right
bottom lines 27 and 123
Montaldo's right top lines and 36
Montgomery Ward & Co . 66 Sykes Florists Co Inc .
Moore & Turner right top lines and 154
Moore's Grocery Co 90 Morrison-Neese Furniture . left Co bottom lines and 85
Motor Finance Co of N C 122
Murray Arthur School of Dancing right side lines and 63
Neas Earl G 110
Tuck Photo Supplies Inc. 141
Tucker-Jones Furniture Co Inc left side lines and 86
Underwood Insurance Agency front cover and 104 United Taxi 169 Uptown Storage Garage left side lines and . 21 W B I G Radio Broadcasting Station Vanstory Clothing Co 37 148
W F M Y Radio Station left top cards and 150
Wades Drug Cleaning Co 70
Weaver Buck & Son Building Contractors
Inc . right bottom lines and 58
Weaver W H Construction Co Inc left top cards 48 and 153 West Bros Co 31
West Harvey Music Co left bottom lines and 131 White & Lewis Realtors left top lines and . . 155 Whittemore Plumbing Co right top cards and 144 Wilkerson-McFalls Drug Co Inc left bottom lines and 67
Wilkins J D Co right bottom lines and 165
Wimbish Insurance Agency Inc front cov
Winkelman D W Carolina Co left bottom lines and 58
Wood L Lumber Co left side lines and 127
Wyrick S T & Co . . . right side lines and 135 Wysong & Mills Co right side lines and 129 Yellow Taxi Co Inc 169
Young's Landscape Service right side lines and 133
Younts-DeBoe Co left top lines and 38
92
side lines and 89
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King-Hunter Inc left side lines and 54
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163
McAden's Dry Cleaners & Dyers
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INTRODUCTION
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1950 edition of the Greensboro City Directory, which also includes Bessemer, Guilford College, Hamilton Lakes, Pomona and Starmount Forest.
Confidence in the continued growth of Greensboro's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Greensboro to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty co- operation 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 community.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following order :-
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the first major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Greensboro and vicinity, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, the second major department, printed on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and pro- fessional interests of Greensboro and vicinity. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference adver- tising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize them- selves with sources of supply. In a large commercial and industrial center like Greensboro, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately avail- able, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is the third major department, printed on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVE- NUE GUIDE, on pink paper, is the fourth major department. In this section the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order, followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residencs and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.
Community Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the community, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing 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 Greens- boro and vicinity.
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The Greensboro Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Greensboro City Directory, 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 more than 600 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. 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 pro- gressive 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., Inc., Publishers.
GREENSBORO "The City of Charm" "Pivot of the Piedmont" (Courtesy Greensboro Chamber of Commerce)
LOURE HOUSE ******** *** ***** ******
Monument to Gen. Nathanael Greene, Hero of the Battle of Guilford Court House
Statistical Review
Form of Government - Council-city manager.
Population-city proper, 59,319; met- ropolitan district, 73,055 (1940 U. S. Cen- sus). Local estimate of city population in 1948, 82.000; metropolitan district, 105,000. American-born, 99.8%.
Area-18.1985 square miles.
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