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HILL'S GREENSBORO
(GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C.)
CITY DIRECTORY 1960
Including Guilford College
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, a Numerical Telephone Directory and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also the
YELLOW PAGES
With a Special ADVERTISING SECTION and a Complete CLASSIFIED LIST
FOR CONTENTS SEE INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Dillard Paper Co
right top cards and
Dixie Sales Co Inc
left side lines and
Dixon & Christopher Co Inc
. right side lines and
Dodson Used Auto Parts Co
. left side lines and
Donnell Lacy B Landscaping
right side lines and 128 80
Duke Power Co . .
back cover, right side lines and
175
East Sunoco Service
right bottom cards and
Edwards Oil Co
right side lines and
Edwards-Touchstone Oil Co
right top cards and
Electric Supply & Equipment Co Inc
Elliott Plumbing Co
Ellis-Stone .
right bottom lines and
Farabee Machine & Parts Co Inc
right side lines and
Fields & Leftwich
. left bottom lines and
Firestone Stores
right side lines and
Florida Street Barber Shop
right side lines and
Forbis & Dick Funeral Service
top stencil, right bottom lines, 3 and
Friendly Center Inc .
tabbed Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and
Fry Fielding L & Co Inc
right top lines and
Frye & Webster Cleaners & Laundry
Gallagher Insurance Agency
right side lines and
Gate City Motor Co Inc .
back lip margin, right top cards and
Gate City Paint Co .
right top cards and
143
Gate City Roofing Co Inc
left side lines and
General Linen Supply Service
left top cards and
173 129 154 111
Glascock Distributing Co Inc
Glenn Construction Co .
Glidden Drive-In Paint Center
Goodwin Inc .
left side lines and
Gospel Book Store
right bottom lines and
29
Gourley Jack W
. left top cards and
124
Grant Chemical Co of N C Inc
left side lines and
Gray Oil Co Inc
Greensboro Association of Certified Day Nurseries The .
Greensboro Auto Parts Co Inc
Greensboro Bag Co Inc .
154
Greensboro Business College .
left top cards and
34
Greensboro Coca-Cola Bottling Co
right top lines and
46
Greensboro Ice & Coal Co Inc . .
right side lines, 45 and
92
Greensboro Laundry & Cleaners Inc
. left top cards and
Greensboro Marble & Tile Co
left bottom lines and
Greensboro News Co .
left and right side lines, 2 and
Greensboro War Memorial Auditorium and Coliseum
tabbed Insert at beginning of Alphabetical Section left side lines and
171 176
Groome Furniture Co Inc .
101
Guaranteed Waterproofing Co The
left top cards, 34 and
60
Guilford Builders Supply Co Inc
. left top lines and
33
Guilford Galleries Inc .
left bottom lines and
100
Guilford Insurance Agency Inc
left bottom cards and
125
Guilford Memorial Park Inc .
right top cards and
36 158
Hall-Putnam Clothing Co Inc
left bottom lines and
38 44
Ham Coal Co
left side lines and
Hamilton Well & Pump Co The
left side lines and
68
Hanes-Lineberry Funeral Service
front cover, right top lines and
95
Hardin Oil Co Inc
left side lines and
93
Hardware Distributors Inc
left bottom lines and
109
Hargett Funeral Home
right bottom cards and
97
Haymore-Whitley Plastering Co
right side lines and
67
Hennis Freight Lines
left top cards and
140
Hiatt Homes
left side lines and
31
Higgins A W Furniture Co Inc
right side lines and
100
Hill Directory Co Inc
74
Hill Harry L .
left side lines and
65
Hinnant W V & Sons
left side lines and
148
Hinshaw Tile Co .
left side lines and
187
Hodgin Roofing & Supply Co Inc
left side lines and
169
Hollady David M . .
158
Holland Furnace Co
left top cards and
97
Page 146 6
151 18
Dwiggins West Lee Street Sunoco Service
. right top cards and
176 93 91
right top cards and 83 X 71 22 91 18
28 94 177 124 128 121 7
168
Gate City Savings & Loan Association
General Radio Service .
60 144 149
37 92 142 14 24
Greensboro Broadcasting Co Inc
129 86 141
Griffin J H & Sons Inc
Griffin Roscoe Shoe Co Inc
Guilford Mortgage Co
Hewett A J Contractor
61
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Holly Hill Gifts
Home Credit Co of Greensboro Inc
Home Credit Co of Guilford Inc .
Home Federal Savings & Loan Association of Greensboro
172
Home Finance Co of Greensboro Inc
Home Specialty
Hotel O'Henry The
Howell Iron Works
Hunt W B & Co
right bottom lines and
Jackson Plumbing & Heating Co
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co front stencil, A and
Jessup Co .
Johnny's Repair Shop
Johnson & Aulbert Clothing Co
Johnson Motor Co
Kane George W .
. front cover and
Kearns Paint Co Inc
left side lines and
Kellett Harry D Inc
right bottom lines and
Key Realty Co
right side lines and
Key & Thomas Oil Co
right top cards and
Kidd Sheet Metal & Roofing Co Inc
King's Business College
Kirk's Sineath Motor Co
right bottom lines and
Kirkman & Koury Inc
right top cards and
Kirkman's Airport Transportation
back cover, right side lines and
Kivett's Kash & Karry
right top cards and
Kyle's Friendly Service
right side lines and
Lamb Furniture Co
right top cards and
Lambert's Barbecue
left side lines and
Lambeth Construction Co left top lines and
Lambeth-Troxler Funeral Home
front lip margin, right top lines and
Lancaster J M Inc
left side lines and
Lewis F D & Son Inc right bottom lines and
Lewis Roger W .
Libby Hill Sea Food Restaurants Inc
right side lines and
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co The
Loring Studio
left side lines and
Lowdermilk Realty & Insurance Co
left bottom lines and
Martin's Studio
left top cards and
Mayfair Cafeteria Inc
right top lines and
166
Mayfair Suburban Restaurant Inc
right top lines and
McDonald's Hamburgers
right top cards and
Mendenhall Lumber Co Inc
right bottom lines and
Meyer's Department Store
right top lines and Mid-Carolina Industrial Bank
Midtown Hotel Court
left bottom lines and
Milton's Esso Service Center
right top cards and
Mitchell J Elwood Co
. left top lines and
Monroe N C Construction Co Inc
right top cards, Y and
Monsees-Wrenn Lumber Co Inc
Montaldo's .
left top lines and
Montgomery Ward & Co
right bottom lines and
Moore Realty & Mortgage Co
left side lines and
Morgan's Trailer Court
Moser C E & Sons
National Cash Register Co The
right top cards and
National Insurance Agency .
, left top cards and Nesbit J G & Son .
121 65 182
North Carolina Broadcasting Co Inc
backbone, right bottom lines, 3 and
North Carolina National Bank front cover, left bottom lines and
North State Chevrolet Co Inc
left side lines and
North State Engraving Co .
right bottom lines and
Oaks Motel The .
left side lines and
139 186
Office Service Company
129
O'Henry Cleaners
77
O'Henry Hotel The
112
One Hour Martinizing
left top cards and 78
138 99 176 117 57 I33
42 73 160 190 62 29
Newland Pool Supply Co
153 26 10 85 86
North State Pyrophyllite Co Inc
Odell Mill Supply Co
right side lines and
103 130 130
front cover, Ieft top lines and Ieft side lines and 131 87 112 left side lines and I26 61 149 116 149 18 41 15 55 144
8 159 93 170 34 9 159 21 105 19 89 100 166 56 96 135 48 62 174 125 147 83 164
Lowdermilk Electric Co
Marsh's Garage & Body Shop
15 147 164
Matlock's Inc
Miller Furniture Co Inc .
166 167 33 72 28
Knight's Auto Service .
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
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Owen Harry R Insurance Agency
Parks' Flooring Co
Pegram-West Inc left top cards, tabbed Insert at Millwork in Classified Business Section and
32 16
Perdue Bros Auto Body Repair
66
Perma-Shade Awning Co Inc
right top lines and
23
Pet Dairy Products Co
right side lines and
Phillips Motor Sales Corp
. left top cards and
Phipps Hardware Co Inc
right side lines and
107
Pick's Used Cars & Garage
. left top cards and
19
Piedmont Canteen Service Inc
right top cards and
194
Piedmont Natural Gas Co Inc
right bottom lines and
102
Piedmont Radio, Television & Appliance Corp
186
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
105 and
Plaza Amoco Service
right side lines and
Pollard W F & Co
Ready-Mixed Concrete Co
left bottom lines
Reddick G D Inc
102 112
Remco Supply Inc
right side lines and
Reserve Life Insurance Co
. right side lines and
Rice Auto Sales
right side lines and
Richardson Motor Co
Richardson Realty Inc
left side lines and
Robbins John Motor Co Inc
right side lines and
Robins & Weill Inc
161
Robinson Sid .
Routh L W Construction Co
Routh Real Estate Co .
Rudd Clyde & Associates Inc
Rummage E L Construction Co left top lines and
Ryder Truck Rental Inc right bottom lines and
Saferight W C Grocery
Sanitary Barber Shop
Sapp Robert L Jr
right bottom lines
Schenk & Co .
right top cards and
122
Schiffman Jewelry Co
right top cards and
127
Scott Seed Co . left side lines and
Scruggs Florist
Sears, Roebuck And Co
Senn, Forbes & Senn .
right side lines and
Sharpe Terry D Agency
left top lines and
123
Shaw J Bernard .
Shepherd Brothers Carpet Shop
Shoe's Welding Service
Shores Saw, Lawnmower & Key Service
129
Shue Plumbing Co
left side lines and
Sikes Paul L . .
left side lines and
Siler City Monument Co
Sink Edwin M
Slater C H Realty & Mortgage Corp
46 and
93
Smith-Courtney Co . .
left bottom lines and
137
Smith R H Plumbing & Heating Co
Smith Roy Brick Contractor .
right bottom cards and
150 66 97 154
Smith's Radio & Television Service
left side lines and
Smith's Ranch Motel & Ranch Restaurant
. right side lines and
139 22
South Atlantic Bonded Warehouse Corp
195
Southern Converting Co Inc left top cards and
173
Southern Elevator Co .
84
Southern Life Insurance Co front cover, left top cards and Southern Mapping & Engineering Co
118 85
Southern Sales Co Inc
189
Southern Tractor-Power Mower Co back cover, left bottom lines and
152
Southern Waste Paper Co .
196
Southside Hardware Co Inc left top lines and
108
Standard Roofing & Sheet Metal Co
170
Star Electronics .
186
Starmount Company
right side lines and
155
22 125 99 11 17 160 87 192
Robbins Floor Covering
125 49
right side lines and 161 left top cards and 183 C 193 106 right side lines and 28 1.64
Saslow's Inc
174 89 72 123 63
Setzer E B Grading & Construction Co Inc
165 35 197
148 66 138 165 162
Smith Coal & Oil Company.
Smith's Funeral Service of Greensboro Inc
Smyre Sunset Service .
right side lines and
Page 122 66
Perkins Frank O
68 14
144 16 152
Rent-A-Car Inc
Rhodes Furniture
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Starr Electric Co Inc
front cover, left top cards and
State Engineering & Sales Co Inc
. left top cards and
Stay-Right Septic Tank Co Inc
Steed Brothers Body Works
Stephens Construction Co
Stevens Insurance Inc
right side lines and
Stone E B Finance Co Inc
right side lines and
Stradford's Drapery Shop
Strong Tire Service Inc
right side lines and
Summers Distributing Co
left top lines and
Superior Stone Co
left top lines and
Sykes Drug Co Inc
right top cards and
Talley Electric Co Inc
right top lines and
Talley Laundry Machinery Co
left top lines and
Telephone Answering Service of Greensboro, N C Inc
left side lines and
Thomas Electrical Contractors Inc
left top cards and
Thompson-Arthur Paving Co Inc
back cover, right bottom lines and
Traders Chevrolet Co Inc .
right top lines and
Truitt Construction Co
Tuck Photo Supplies Inc
right top cards and
Urban Tile Co .
Vaden J B Jr Interior & Exterior Painting Contractor
Vanstory Clothing Co .
left bottom lines and
Vestal's Flower & Gift Shop
right side lines and
W BI G Radio Broadcasting Station backbone, right bottom lines, 3 and
W G B G Broadcasting Station
Wachter Surveys Inc
Wade's Dry Cleaning Co Inc
right top lines and
Walker & Shuler's Auto Service
left side lines and
Waynick Paint & Wallpaper Co
right side lines and
Weaver Realty Co . left side lines and
West Realty Co .
White David J Realtor
bottom stencil, left top lines and
Wilkerson Rexall Drug Co
front cover, left bottom lines and
Wilson-Legare Inc .
left side lines and
front cover, left top lines and
right side lines and
Wrenn Lumber Corp
right side lines and
Wyrick S T & Co .
right side lines and
142
Wysong & Miles Co
right side lines and
135
Y M C A Business Men's Health Club
110
Younts-DeBoe Co
right top lines and
40
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153 154 182 78 17 146 162 163 156 76 136 180 163 120 64 134
Willard J A Co .
Williams Steel Co Inc
Wimbish Insurance Agency Inc
Winkelman D W Carolina Co .
left top lines and 100 119 68 145 39 88
Tucker-Jones Furniture Co Inc
Twentieth Century Life Insurance Co
Tatum-Dalton Transfer Co
Summers J D Construction Co
GREENSBORO
ONE OF THE SOUTH'S IMPORTANT DISTRIBUTION CENTERS (Courtesy Greensboro Chamber of Commerce)
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Monument to Gen. Nathanael Greene, Hero of the Battle of Guilford Court House
Greensboro, located in almost the geographical center of North Carolina, has long been a trans - portation focal point that in early years contributed much to the city's present size and position.
Because of its central location, Greensboro was placed on the main railroad lines and highways. And when airline facilities were being installed around the country in the 1920's, the city was included in the first north-south mainline service. These transportation facilities and its location were among the more important factors that have made Greensboro natural as an industrial and distribution site, both wholesale and retail.
In its early years, Greensboro became the home of several colleges and is now one of the educa- tional centers of the nation. This, of course, has contributed much to the cultural growth so that the city is a well-rounded, progressive community.
Greensboro, known as "The Insurance Center of the South," is also the home of the world's leading textile manufacturers, a leader in education, and the location of one of the world's largest cigarette manufacturers, P. Lorillard Co.
P. Lorillard Co.
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INTRODUCTION
Statistical Review
FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Council, City Manager.
POPULATION-City, 128,000; Greensboro-High Point metropolitan district, 250,000. 99.9 per cent American-born.
AREA-50 square miles.
ALTITUDE-839 feet above sea level.
CLIMATE-Mean annual temperature, 69.2 degrees; average annual rainfall, 42.5 inches; days of clear sunshine annually, 136; humidity, 42.4 per cent.
PARKS-93, with 564 acres.
ASSESSED VALUATION-$394,725,299, with $1.20 per $100 tax rate.
BONDED DEBT-$28,674,000.
COMMERCE-Latest business census shows 1,096 retail establishments and 338 wholesale firms. One-sixth of the State's population lives in Greensboro's 12-county trading area, one-fifth of the retail sales are made there, and one-fourth of the State's manufactured goods produced there.
FINANCIAL DATA-4 banks, with total deposits of $808,754,380 (Dec. 31, 1959) and total resources of $899,008,351: 3 savings and loan associations with total assets of $78,443,371; one industrial bank with total resources of $1,740,694.
POSTAL RECEIPTS-$3,900,458 for 1959 calendar year.
TELEPHONES IN SERVICE-65,241.
CHURCHES-206, representing all denominations.
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-Value of building permits for 1959, $30,201,554.
REAL ESTATE-37,412 homes with 58 per cent owned by occupants.
TRADE AREA-Retail and wholesale area has radius of 50 miles with a population of about 1,400,000. NEWSPAPERS-2 dailies and 3 weeklies.
RADIO STATIONS-WBIG, WGBG, WCOG, WPET, and WMDE-FM.
TELEVISION STATIONS-WFMY-T V (100,000 watts), and WUNC-T V (100,000 watts).
RAILROADS-Southern Railway operates 18 passenger and 14 freight trains daily.
HIGHWAYS-U. S. 29, 70 (main east-west), 220 (main north-south), and 421.
AIRPORT-Greensboro-High Point Airport is 6 miles from the city on U. S. 421. Served by Eastern, Capital and Piedmont Airlines with 37 flights daily.
AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATIONS-33,651.
HOSPITALS-4, with total of 570 beds.
EDUCATION-Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro College, Guilford College, Greensboro Division of Guilford College, Bennett College, Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, and Immanuel Lutheran College.
35 public schools, including 4 senior high and 10 junior high; 4 parochial schools, including 1 high school. Number of pupils in public schools, 21,058; parochial, 848. Number of teachers in public schools, 857, parochial, 37. Value of public school property, $19,000,000; parochial, $1,900,000.
9 institutions of higher education in the county with about 9,740 students; 34 rural public schools. PUBLIC LIBRARIES-2 in Greensboro with 161,646 volumes. Including college libraries, books total 560,500.
CITY STATISTICS-Total street mileage, 532 with 402 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 205, sewers, 375. Number of water meters, 30,644, electric meters, 81,956, gas meters, 9,867. Pumping capacity of municipal waterworks, 60 million gallons daily; daily average pumpage, 12 million gallons; 360 miles of mains.
Fire Department has 149 men with 9 stations and 17 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 182 men and 29 women with 1 station and 55 pieces of motor equipment.
General Review
GUILFORD COUNTY-Settled chiefly between 1750 and 1770 by Ulster Scots Presbyterians, English Quakers and German Lutherans and Calvinists (German Reformed), the county was established in 1771 from parts of Orange and Rowan counties. It was named after the Earl of Guilford. Containing some 624 square miles, Guilford County in 1950 had a population of 191,057.
GREENSBORO-The county seat was chartered in 1808 and named after Gen. Nathanael Greene, American leader in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. U. S. Census figures show steady growth: 1890- 3,317; 1900-10,035; 1910-15,895; 1920-19,861; 1930-53,569; 1940-59,319; 1950-74,389; 1960-128,000. The population is 99.9 per cent American-born with Negroes making up twenty-five per cent of the total.
POINTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST-Guilford Courthouse National Military Park is located on the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Here Gen. Greene fought one of the final and significant battles of the Revolution in North Carolina and the losses Cornwallis suffered contributed in large part to his surrender at Yorktown several months later. Maintained as a national park, the site has a historical museum and many monuments, including Gen. Greene, Winston, Caldwell, and the famous "giant" Peter Francisco.
O. Henry, one of the most famous writers of this country, was born in Greensboro. A bronze tablet on the Masonic Temple identifies his birthplace. O. Henry exhibits are to be found in the Greensboro Historical Museum, at the Greensboro Public Library and the O. Henry Hotel.
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Dolly Madison's Well-This site, identified by a marker near Guilford College, marks the birth- place of the wife of the fourth U. S. president.
The home and famous classical school of Dr. David Caldwell, first pastor of Buffalo and Alamance Presbyterian Churches, Guilford County's first first-citizen, minister, educator, physician and states- man, are marked by plaques on Friendly Road near their sites.
The Greensboro Historical Museum, containing many well-preserved relics from the city's past, is located in the Municipal Center on Church Street.
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COMMERCE AND TRADE
Greensboro is easily accessible to a 50-mile trade area with a population of about 1,400,000. Re- tail sales for the area in 1958 totaled $1,372,091,000.
Greensboro is the principal market of the northern Piedmont section of the State. There are some 1,500 retail, service and professional outlets and nearly 2,000 salesmen and agents who distribute a wide variety of merchandise of a much larger territory.
The home offices of several large insurance companies, plus territorial and general agencies of many national firms, have given the city its title of the "Insurance Center of the South."
Although not the largest tobacco market in the Old Belt, Greensboro's market is growing the most rapidly of any in the section. Reactivated in 1949 after twenty-five years of inactivity, the market has increased its sales faster than any other in the Old Belt. This growth is due mainly to the excellent management and Greensboro's location in the center of one of the nation's finest tobacco-growing areas.
United States Post Office, Greensboro, N. C.
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GOVERNMENT
Greensboro is administered by a non-partisan council of seven members elected at large who employ a full-time city manager, an office now held by Gen. James R. Townsend.
Good management of the city is reflected in nationally-recognized superiority in public health ad- ministration, reduction of fire losses and low insurance rates, salability of municipal bonds, efficient police protection, well-paved streets, and modern sewage and sanitation facilities. These and other evi- dences of good government have given Greensboro an atmosphere of enterprise and well-being.
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