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CITY DIRECTORY 1960
Including Hope Valley, Joyland and Sherron Acres
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numeri- cal Telephone Directory and Much Informa- tion of a Miscellaneous Character; also the
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories (pub- lishers of the Durham City Directory since 1903), present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1960 edition of the Durham City Directory, which also includes Hope Valley, Joyland and Sherron Acres.
Confidence in the growth of Durham's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sec- tions of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly re- flecting Durham 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 Durham 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 :--
I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major department of the Di- rectory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional concerns of the city and vicinity, arranged in alpha - betical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the city and vicinity. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference advertis- ing at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a progressive community like Durham, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common intermediary between buy- er and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the com- mercial, industrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the second major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital sta - tus, occupation and address of each adult resident of Durham, Hope Valley, Joyland and Sherron Acres, and the name, official personnel, nature and ad- dress of each firm and corporation in the community.
III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major department, printed on green paper. In this section the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order, followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences 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 department are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fourth major department.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
Airheart Insurance Agency Inc
Page 1.34
Alexander Motor Co Inc .
left side lines and
11
Allen T E & Sons Mutual Insurance Agency
left side lines and
1.34
Allenton Realty & Insurance Co Inc
right top lines and
1.66
Amey's Funeral Home & Florist
left side lines and
106
Arc Electric Co Inc
left side lines and
88
Avis Rent-A-Car System
left bottom lines and
B & H Tire Co
Bagwell Inc .
Bagwell John R, Jr
right side lines and
Bagwell Viola C Real Estate & Insurance
right side lines, 135 and
1.68
Barbecue Kitchen
left side lines and
1.50 97
Barnhart Insurance Agency
left bottom lines and
1.27 92
Belk-Leggett Co .
right top lines and
80
Bell V E & Sons Inc
right bottom lines, 2 and
1.19 66 194
Borden Brick & Tile Co
back cover, Insert at Name in
Boyce Supply Co
, Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and
Bradsher S M Inc
Bright's T V & Radio Service
Brinkley-Stromsland
Broadway Foods Inc
Broadway Taxi Inc
backbone, right bottom lines and
left top lines and
Brunson's .
bottom stencil, left bottom lines, 9, 185 and
191
Budd-Piper Roofing Co
left side lines and
Car Sales Co .
Carolina Block Co
front cover and
Carpenter A N
Carpenter's Inc
back cover, right side lines and
Carroll Adrian M
Carver Realty & Insurance Co
Christian-Harward Furniture Co Inc
left bottom lines and
Citizens National Bank of Durham The . . front cover, right top lines and
Clark Electric Service right bottom lines and
Clements & Edwards Insurance Agency Cole Construction Co Inc
left bottom lines and Comfort Engineers Inc .
right side lines, 3 and
Commercial Equipment Co
Concrete Delivery Inc .
Constructors Supply Co Inc
right top lines, 53 and
Crabtree Pharmacy
Daniel Wade Cabinet Shop
Dillon Supply Co
Dixie Awning Co
Downey L A & Son
Duke Power Co .
front cover, right top lines and
Durham Awning Co
Durham Bank & Trust Company
Durham Beauty Academy Inc
back cover, right side lines and
Durham Builders Supply Co right side lines and
Durham Business College
Durham Coca-Cola Bottling Co Inc
right side lines and
Durham Dairy Products Inc .
right top lines and
78
Durham Distributing Co Inc
right side lines and
32
Durham Furniture Co Inc The
left side lines and
108
Alliance Company .
1.64
Arnold Floor Sanding & Covering Co
right side lines and 99 23 1.86 right side lines and 54 66
Barnes Supply Co
Barton Electric Construction Co Inc
Birmingham Construction Co Black Tree Expert Inc
Broughton R E Electric Co
Alphabetical Section and 35 left top lines and 36 55 right side lines and 1.84 73 25 182 92
Business Machine & Equipment Inc
177 44 1.2 37 197 67 1.3
Carolina Venetian Blind Co
168
169 107 27 89
right side lines and 135 56 120 45 52 right side lines and 76 84 47 right side lines and 1.43 24 67 86 23 28 31 38 51 33
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Durham Industrial Bank .
136
Durham Insurance Service Co
145
Durham Marble Works
142
Durham Mattress Co
1.43 96
Durham-Orange Farm Center Inc
1.59
Durham Plumbing & Heating Co Inc . . front lip margin, left top lines and
Durham Realty & Insurance Co. . front cover, right bottom lines, 1.28 and
1.67 177 181 146
Durham Sporting Goods Co
Dutch Village Motel . .
39
Dutchville Builders Supply
left side lines and
Earnhardt J W
Eckerd's Drug Stores
Edwards' Florist
left bottom lines and
Elkins Motor Co
right side lines and
Epes Transport System
left bottom lines and
Erwin Oil Co Inc
right side lines and
Five Points Furniture Co
back lip margin, right side lines, 103 and
Fowler M M Inc
Friendly Florist right bottom lines and
Garrison Insurance Service
General Telephone Co of The Southeast
Georges' Trailer Sales Inc .
right side lines and
Gibson Insulation & Weatherstripping Co
Green Oil Co
Guess Road Cabinet & Building Supply Co Inc
back cover, right side lines and
H & O Concrete Block Co
left side lines and
Harvey's Cafeteria Inc
right side lines and
Herrin C A General Contractor
Hill Directory Co Inc
left bottom lines and
123
Hotel Malbourne .
right side lines and
Howard Johnson's Restaurant
Hull Claude Florist
right side lines and
Independent Pest & Termite Control Service
left top lines, 1.88 and
Ingold Tire Co
Ingram's Inc .
left side lines and
Interstate Piping Co Inc The
right side lines and
Jobe-Blackley Plumbing Co
Johnson-Forrester Inc
left side lines and
Johnson Motor Co Inc
right side lines and
Johnson O L
front cover, right bottom lines, 34 and
Kane George W
front cover, right bottom lines, 104 and
Kenan Oil Co Inc
left top lines and
Kimball W W .
La Cock's Shoe Center
left top lines and
Latta Earl J .
left bottom lines and
Long Meadow Farms Inc
right bottom lines and
Lovette Electric Construction Co Inc
right side lines and
M & J Finance Corp
1,85
Mac's Television Service
left top lines and
Malbourne Hotel .
right side lines and
123 16 157
Maus Piano Co Inc
front stencil, right bottom lines,
198
May D C Co Inc
right side lines and
173
Mayola's Chili House
right side lines and
68 117 77
Mead Containers Inc, Durham Division
left top lines and
30
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
right top cards and
91
Modern Electric Company Incorporated
left bottom lines and
17 138
Monarch Motors Inc
right side lines and
7
Montgomery & Aldridge Appliance Co Inc
left bottom lines and
190 18
Montgomery & Aldridge Tire Co Inc
backbone, left top lines and
Morgan Motors Inc
Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section, 153 and . right top lines and
74
McClamroch W L
McDaniel-Ervin-Hinshaw Hardware Co Inc
138
Model Laundry of Durham Inc left top lines and
right side lines and
59 149 145 1.79 70 79 90 98
Jeffries Paul Electrical Contractor
1.72 102 186 189 160 1.61 93 164 139 15 58
Home Insurance Agency Inc
left top lines and
183 144 1.26 105
left side lines and
42 40
171 68 82 1.30
Ellis Refrigeration Service
69 83 100 14 170 193
Durham Sandwich Co
left side lines and
Durham Millwork Co
back cover and
Montaldo's . .
Matthews & Farrow Inc
May Claude M Inc
105 109 1.48 102 1.29
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Muirhead Wm Construction Co Inc . . top stencil, tabbed Insert at Name
Municipal Forms & Systems Co Inc in Alphabetical Section and 60
Murray Thelle R Painting & Decorating right bottom lines and
43
Mutual Savings & Loan Association
Myers-Glenn Inc
Neil Upholstery Co . left side lines and
New Method Laundry & Dry Cleaners
left side lines and
North Carolina College at Durham
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co
left top lines and
O'Brient's Music Store
Olan Mills Studio . left side lines, 147 and
Paschall Brothers Inc front cover, left bottom lines and Perkins Glass Company 25 and Perkins H T Co . .
Phillips Insurance Agency Inc
Pine State Electric Supply Company Inc
Poplar Apartments Incorporated .
Pritchard Paint & Glass Company
Proctor W T tabbed Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and
Public Hardware Inc
Quality Control Products Inc
Reagan Edward F, Jr
Register Leon Inc .
Rigsbee Tire Sales Inc
Riley Paint Co .
Riley's Paint Warehouse Inc
Robbins of Durham
right bottom lines and
Roberts Brothers Builders
Roberts Construction Company
Rollins-Bloodworth Inc
Rose Agency Inc The
Rowe Typewriter Co
Royal Ice Cream Co
Royal Sandwich & Food Co
Sanitary Septic Tank Service
Scott Coal & Oil Co
Scott & Roberts Inc .
Security National Bank
Shaw Decorating Co Inc
Shaw Paint & Wallpaper Co Inc
Shaw's Venetian Blinds
Smith's Furniture .
Smith's Furniture Exchange
Smoake Lumber Co .
Soles Adjustment Service
Southernair Company
Southgate J & Son Inc
Speight's Auto Service
Star Realty Inc . ..
Strickland Coal & Oil Co
Strickland & Williford .
Style Craft Interiors Inc
right side lines and
Superior Packing Co .
Superior Roofing Co Inc
right side lines and 1.75
Teasley Percy L
right side lines and
Teer Nello L Co
Thomas &' Howard Co Inc
Thomerson Electric Co
left side lines and 93
Tilley's Acme Plumbing & Heating Co of Durham Inc
1.63 69
Tire & Appliance Center Inc The .
left top lines, 10 and
Turnage's Barbecue
right top lines and
Typewriter Supply Co .
left side lines and
University Motors Incorporated
right side lines and
Uzzle Motor Co Inc .
left bottom lines and
195 21 22 165 166
Walton Roofing & Heating Co Inc
left top lines and
1.21
Watkins J B .
1.24
Watson Lumber Co
142
. right side lines and 113 115 left side lines and 1.18 right side lines and 48 72 C right top lines and 191 1.51 152 81 left side lines and 61 62 right side lines and right side lines and 8 147 46 1.25 26 178 left side lines and 49 left side lines and 85 26 right top lines and 1.54 152 197 A A 41 136 4 and left top lines and 122 133 20 169 50 62A 110 left side lines and 1.50
155 63 116
Tillman & Horner General Contractors Inc
Transport Corp The
192 1.93 1.74
W DN C & W DN C-FM Radio Broadcasting Station W T I K Radio Station
right bottom lines and 75 178 1.9 196
140 B 131 158 156 162 114 1.58
right top lines and
132 87 5
front cover, left top and side lines, 9, 10 and
left bottom lines and
back cover, left top lines, 137 and
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Wellons Realty Company
Wells-Lloyd Florist Inc right side lines and 101 141
West Durham Lumber Co . back cover, right bottom lines and
West Durham Plumbing Co
165 6
Whitley Electric Co
left top lines and
94
Whitley-Strawbridge Inc
left side lines and
Winters J C, Jr
left bottom lines, 65 and 95
87
Wrenn's Auto Sales
196
Wyatt R H Insulation Contractor right top lines and
71
Y And J Upholstering Co back cover, left bottom lines and
111
Yellow Cab Company Inc
181
Young Roofing Co Inc The
right bottom lines and
176
Zuckerman S and Son left side lines and 112
Page 180
Westover Park Apartments right top lines and
156 64
Williams Walter
Woods W T Electric Co
DURHAM
"FRIENDLY CITY OF INDUSTRY, EDUCATION AND MEDICINE"
(Courtesy Durham Chamber of Commerce)
History
In April, 1865, at a log cabin known as the Bennett Place, near Durham Station, there occurred one of the most historic events in the history of the na- tion. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, and the future looked dark indeed for the Southern states. Jefferson Davis and his cabinet had escaped to Greens- boro, North Carolina, and there had held fiery debate as to the advisability of continuing the Civil War. Some members of the cabinet favored continuing hos- tilities at any cost, even though it meant carrying on a guerrilla warfare, while others took the position that the cause of the Confederacy was forever lost and
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that no good could be accomplished by further bloodshed. Finally it was de- cided to instruct General Joseph E. Johnson, commander of the Confederate Armies of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, to negotiate terms of peace with General Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Federal Army that had broken the backbone of the Confederacy by reason of its famous march to the sea. These two generals met at the Bennett Place and signed a tentative peace agreement. This agreement was so favorable to the South that General Grant refused to approve it, but after several days' conference, it was amended to meet General Grant's demands and was signed and approved by the govern- ments of the North and South, and the War between the States came to a close.
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Marking the place of surrender, just four miles from Durham, there has been erected, through the generosity of Mrs. S. T. Morgan, a beautiful monu- ment consisting of two columns, one representing the North and the other the South, joined together by a crosspiece on which is the word "Unity." This his- toric spot, the birthplace of a reunited nation, is visited each year by thousands of people.
The death of the Confederacy gave birth to the city of Durham, and out of the ashes of the hopes of the Southern people has been built a great and beauti- ful city. In 1865, Durham Station was a small and insignificant point on the North Carolina Railroad, inhabited by less than 100 persons. There was one lone business enterprise here, a crude and unimportant tobacco factory with total assets of less than $2,000, including not only products on hand, but representing also the entire investment and replacement. History and tradition unite in say- ing that this factory was broken into by Sherman's soldiers and a large part of the stock carried away. Tradition further says that the product carried away was so well made and of such quality that when the soldiers returned to the pursuit of civil life, letters came back to Durham to ascertain if there was more of the product upon the market. To supply this demand a broken business was rebuilt.
In 1865, Washington Duke, & Confederate soldier, walked from New Bern to his home in Durham, and with the same stout heart that had carried him through the vicissitudes of a lost cause, turned his attention to the battle for bread, which was doubtless as crueland bitter as the war from which he had returned. He built the second factory in Durham, composed of a log cabin 20 x 30 feet, and with his own hands manufactured a product out of a small supply of tobacco that the Federal soldiers had not found. This he called Pro Bono Publico. The annual output of this factory was originally four or five hundred pounds, and in 1872, had grown to 125,000 pounds.
In the meantime, W. T. Blackwell had moved to Durham to engage in the tobacco business. He was to the early development of the tobacco industry in Durham what Napoleon was to France, or Caesar to Rome. The Durham Bull got upon the map and in a few brief years his sonorous voice, like the shot at Lexington, was heard around the world. In 1872, the two small tobacco factories had grown into twelve.
James Buchanan Duke, becoming convinced that it was neither practicable nor profitable to compete with Bull Durham smoking tobacco, turned the vision of his great genius into the cigarette field, and from that day to the present hour the increasing volume of the tobacco industry has become the common property of mankind.
On April 10, 1869, almost exactly four years after Johnston surrendered to Sherman, Durham was born. There were only 258 inhabitants in the village, and the total municipal revenue was $357.44. The largest taxpayer paid $ 40.62 in taxes. In 1870, there were probably less than 100 wage-earners in industrial pursuits in the town.
The tobacco industry grew at a very rapid rate, using large quantities of bright-leaf tobacco. While much of this type of tobacco was grown around Durham, it was sold at tobacco markets in Richmond and other Virginia cities, and local manufacturers had to pay the cost of transporting the tobacco from Virginia to Durham. This condition made desirable the opening of warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco in Durham, and resulted in this city becoming one of the largest bright-leaf tobacco markets in the world, now selling from 40 to 57 million pounds each season.
During all this time there were no banks in the town, practically all the banking being transacted in Raleigh, and on days of big sales at the tobacco warehouses it was necessary to obtain cash from the merchants in order to pay the farmer for his product. Such inconveniences could not long continue, and soon two banks were established.
The next step in the industrial and commercial history of the town was the bringing in of additional railway lines. By the cooperation of manufacturers, merchants, and the city and county governments, the Seaboard Air Line Rail- way, the Southern Railway, and the Norfolk & Western Railway were given ac- cess to this market. Later the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the Durham & Southern Railway were added to the railway lines serving the city, giving a total of five railway companies with five lines radiating in every direction.
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