Hill's Durham (Durham County, N.C.) City Directory [1963], Part 1

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Publication date: 1963
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CONTAINS:


. Buyers' Guide and a complete classified business directory


. Alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens


. Complete street and avenue guide, including householders, and occupants of office buildings and other business places


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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX


HILL DIRECTORY COMPANY publishers of Southeastern Directories (pub- lishers of the Durham City Directory since 1903), presents to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1963 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 BUYERS' GUIDE constitutes the first major department of the Di- rectory, printed on yellow paper. In the first section of this department, grouped under appropriate headings, are included the advertisements and busi- ness cards of firms and individuals desiring to make a complete presentation of their products or services. Following this is the Classified Business sec- tion, which embraces a list of the names and addresses of all business and professional concerns of the community, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the community. The Buyers' Guide represents reference advertising at its best, and merits the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a busy and diversified 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 buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, indus- trial 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, mari- tal status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Durham, and the name, official personnel, nature and address 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 section are the des- ignation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and the listing of telephone numbers.


IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY is the fourth major de- partment, printed on blue paper.


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


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the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Durham and vicinity.


The Durham Out-of-Town City Directory Library


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Durham City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Durham Chamber of Com- merce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 1,000 Directory Libraries installed in cities and towns throughout the U. S., Canada and Puerto Rico by members of the Association of North American Di- rectory 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 confi- dence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Page numbers below refer ta the Buyers' Guide Section


Page


Airheart Insurance Agency Inc


120


Aldridge Power Mower Co. . right top lines and 139


Alexander Motor Co Inc right side lines and 8


Allen David G of Durham


180


Allen T E & Sons Mutual Insurance Agency .left side lines and


Alliance Co


157


Appliance & TV Center


right top lines and


Arc Electric Co Inc


97


Art Neon Sign Co


.left side lines and


176


Ashford Donald .


left bottom corner cards and


146


Associated Scaffolders & Paint Co


.left top lines and


174


B & H Tire Co


186


Bailey Walter


left side lines and


149 98


Barnes Supply Co.


Barnhart Insurance Agency left bottom lines and


121


Barton Electric Construction Co Inc .left top lines and 92


Bates Beauty Nook .left top lines and 27


Belk-Leggett Co back cover, right top lines and


Bell Noel R .left side lines and


Beltone- Maddrey Co


right side lines and


Berens Frederick W Inc


Best Exterminating Service Inc


Bethea Artemus Jr ..


left top cards and


130 192 190


Black Tree Experts Inc


Borden Brick & Tile Co backbone, insert at Street Guide and


34 35 71


Bradley James L


. . left top lines and


54


Bright Homer left side lines and


130 24


Broadway Foods Inc.


Broadway Yellow Cab .


right bottom lines


Broughton R E Electric Co


right top lines, A and 93


Brunson's


· left bottom lines


Brunson's Merchandise Mart


left bottom lines and


Brunson's Tire & Seat Cover Mart


left bottom lines and


Budd- Piper Roofing Co.


Burke John Bar- B-Que


left side lines and


Bynum Leonard O


left bottom lines and 75


Carolina Block Co


. front cover and 36


Cates Willie J


left side lines and


Chicken Box


right side lines and


Cole Construction Co Inc


left bottom lines and 56


Colley Fred .


Comfort Engineers Inc


Commercial Equipment Co Inc


Concrete Delivery Inc . .


Constructors Supply Co Inc


right top lines and


Covenant Book Room The


· right side lines and


Crabtree Pharmacy .


.left side lines and


Crest Co .


right side lines and


Daniel Wade Cabinet Shop


right side lines and


Daughtry's Trailer Sales


Davis Bakery.


Dennis & Thomerson Electric Co Inc


right top lines and


Dixie Awning Co ..


22


Dixon's Radio & TV right side lines and 160


Downey L A & Son ..


67


Durham Auto Body Service.


21


Durham Builders Supply Co


.left side lines and 37 X


Durham Business College.


Durham Coca-Cola Bottling Co Inc · right side lines and 49


Durham Dairy Products Inc .


right top lines and 83


84 53 117 137 147


Bishop Upholstering Co left side lines and


Boyce Supply Co. tabbed insert at name in Alphabetical Section and left side lines and


Bradsher S M Inc


4 182 172 168


Carver Realty & Insurance Co Inc


161 55 168


left side lines and 130 C 45 52 51 28 87 73 46 187 23 95


128


Amey's Funeral Home & Florist .left side lines and


107 3


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Durham Institute of Barbering . right side lines and 26


Durham Insurance Service Co


left bottom lines and 122


Durham Marble Works .


136


Durham Plumbing & Heating Co Inc


front lip margin,


Durham Realty & Insurance Co.


. front cover, left bottom lines and


162


Durham Scale Co.


right side lines and 175 138 38


Eastern Finance Co


100


Eckerd Drug Stores


.left top lines and 88


Edwards Bros Plastering Contractors left bottom lines and 79 101


Edwards' Florist


Elkins Motor Co


left bottom lines and 9


57


Five Points Furniture Co


right bottom lines and


109 Y 141 123


General Telephone Co of the Southeast


George's Garage. left side lines and


Georges' Mobile Homes of Durham Inc .


.left side lines and


Goodwin & Hunt


.left side lines and


Graves Boiler Repair Co right side lines and


Gray Construction Co


right side lines and


Green Felix J.


Green Oil Co


Guaranty State Bank . right top lines and


Guess Road Cabinet & Building Supply Co Inc right side lines and 39


H & O Concrete Block & Pipe Co . back cover, right side lines and Hall- Wynne & Co Inc .. .bottom stencil, left side lines and 40 108 Hammock George Paint Contractor · right side lines and 146 67 Harris Construction Co Inc .left side lines and right top lines and 169 86


Hillside Realty Co .. 68 and 163 155


Hobbie Brothers Plumbing & Heating Contractors


Home Building Supply Co Inc .left side lines and


Home Insurance Agency Inc left bottom lines and


Hunt Construction Co Inc .


Hutchins Construction Co Inc


· back cover,


I-85 American Service


right bottom lines and


17 183


Ingram's Inc


.left side lines and


155 103


J & J Cabinet Shop


left bottom lines and 46


Jefferies Paul Electrical Contractor right side lines and 95 Jenkins Robert 29 Jobe- Blackley Plumbing Co . right side lines and right top cards and 156 131


Johnson-Forrester Inc


right bottom lines and


Johnson Motor Co.


.left top lines and 10 59


Johnson's Garage


right side lines and left side lines and


18


Jones Brothers Bakery Inc right top lines and


24 60


Kenan Oil Co Inc. . . front cover, right bottom lines and


106


Kennedy's Auto Service & Manufacturing Co


.left top lines and 11


Kimball Monument Co Inc.


Kirby Center of Durham


Leathers John Lee


.left side lines and 150


Lee James A


. . left side lines and 145


Lee N E Plumbing & Heating Co Inc


left bottom lines and 157


Log Cabin The.


· right side lines and


158 81


Long Meadow Farms Inc


.left top lines and


96


Lowe Tile & Marble. right side lines and


181


Lynette's Restaurant right side lines and 169


M & J Finance Corp


.left side lines and 99


41 124 68


Ivy's Florist


. right side lines, 33 and 112


Ingold Tire Co


left top lines and


179 17 134 133 58 28 31 71 105 25


Ferrell J A


Forest Hills Sunoco (R & R No 1) Fowler M M Inc .back lip margin, right side lines, 104 and


Garrison Insurance Service. . right bottom lines and


Glover Albert G


Harvey's Cafeteria Inc .


Hill Directory Company


Johnson O L


Kane Geo W Inc. front cover, right bottom lines, 32 and


136 192


Lovette Electric Construction Co Inc. right bottom lines and


left top lines and 152


Dutch Village Motel.


Dutchville Builders Supply .


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Mac's Television Service .


Page 180


Maddox-Stafford Stone Works Co Inc · right side lines and 135


Maitland's Top Hat left side lines, 164 and 165 Markham Charles .left side lines and 80


Matthews & Farrow Inc right side lines and


front stencil, right bottom lines,


193


May D C Co Inc


Mayola's Chili House.


left side lines and


McDaniel- Ervin-Hinshaw Hardware Co Inc


right side lines and 115


Mc Gee Willie


left side lines and 76


McQueen Ernest right side lines and


Medical-Dental- Hospital Bureau of N C Inc.


Miller Oscar Contractor Inc right side lines and


Miller Truck Sales & Service Inc right side lines and


Model Laundry of Durham Inc. right top cards and 131


Montaldo's of Durham N C .. right side lines and


Montgomery & Aldridge Appliance Co Inc. .


Montgomery & Aldridge Tire Co Inc .... front cover, left bottom lines and Moore's Restaurant


left side lines and 170


Morgan Motors Inc


left top lines and 13


Muirhead Wm Construction Co Inc .


.top stencil,


, .tabbed insert at name in Alphabetical Section and


61


Municipal Forms & Systems Co Inc


right bottom lines and


44


Murdaugh Typewriter Co


.left top lines and


Myers-Glenn Inc.


right bottom lines and


19 2


Nelms & Watkins


118


New Method Laundry & Dry Cleaners


left side lines and


132 B


North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co


right top lines and 125


Nu-Tread Tire Co


left top lines and 185 69 148


One Hour Martinizing Inc


89


Paschall Brothers Inc


Peabody Drug Co Inc The


Perfection Sewing Center


left side lines and 191


Perkins H T Co


148


Phillips Insurance Agency Inc . .


right top lines and 126


Piedmont Communications Co Inc


Pine State Creamery Co


.left side lines and


Pine State Electric Supply Co Inc.


Pogue Ponce DeLeon .


left side lines and 133


Proctor W T tabbed insert at name in Alphabetical Section and 72


Public Hardware Inc


left side lines and 116 47


Quality Electric Co .


right side lines and


94 Y


Ray James A


.left side lines and 151


Register Leon Inc. .


. back cover and 62


Rhodes H E Contractor


left bottom lines and 69


Richardson Willie A. .left side lines and 30


Rigsbee Tire Sales Inc


. front cover,


Riley Paint Co and Warehouse Inc . left top and side lines, 7, 19 and 186


Roberts Brothers Builders. left bottom lines and 63


Rollins- Bloodworth Inc right side lines and 6


Rose Agency Inc The right bottom lines and


140 27


Rose & Neal Garage


Roxboro Road Pure (R & R No 2)


25


Scott Coal & Oil Co


.left side lines and 48


Scott Tailors .left side lines and 178


Sears Albert


.left side lines and 144


Service Printing Co Inc


. right side lines and 158


190 173


National Cash Register Co The


.right top cards and


North Carolina College at Durham .


O'Briant Masonry


O'Brient's Music Store .


left side lines, 140 and


Parks Esso Station .. right side lines and 176 153 89 left bottom lines and


160 82 90


Pritchard Paint & Glass Co.


right side lines and 113


Quality Control Products Inc .


Ranson & Ross Service Station


. . right top lines and 143


Rose Beauty Salon left side lines and


20 Y


Royal Sandwich & Food Co.


12


Mays Henry J


May Claude M Inc tabbed insert at name in Alphabetical Section, 142 and . right top lines and 77 164 29


147 50 78 18


129 5 184


Mutual Savings .& Loan Assn


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Smith Alfred .


.left side lines and 145


Southgate J & Son Inc


left top lines and 127


Speight's Auto Service


. right side lines and 14


Style Craft Interiors Inc. front cover, right side lines and 110


Suggs Plumbing & Heating Inc.


156


Taylor Samuel Teer Nello L Co.


.left side lines and 79 64


Thalhimers Ellis Stone.


left side lines and


85 114


Thompson Percy & Co .


left side lines and


71


Tilley's Acme Plumbing & Heating Co


right side lines and


154


Tilley's Lakewood Hardware & Sporting Goods Tip- Top Fish House Inc


right side lines, 166 and


167 96


Triangle Brick Co


Triangle Steel Co


right side lines and


189 7 170


Turnage's Barbecue.


right bottom lines and University Motors Inc


. right top lines and


15 16


W T I K Radio Station


Warner Roosevelt


Wells-Lloyd Florist Inc . .left side lines and


102


West Durham Lumber Co.


. front cover and 43


West Durham Seafood Market


right side lines and 175


White Star Laundry & Cleaners Inc


. right bottom lines and


90 97


Williams Walter


.left side lines and


65


Winters J C Construction Co


back cover, right side lines, 66 and


119


Woods W T Electric Co.


91


Wrenn's Auto Sales


20


Wyatt R H Insulation Contractor


right top lines, Z and


74


Y & J Upholstering Co. .


back cover, left bottom lines and 111


Young Roofing Co Inc The


. right bottom lines and 171


117


Toole E N Electric Co


right side lines and


Transport Corp The


right top lines and 188 42 177


Triangle Travel Agency


Tucker's Service


Uzzle Motor Co Inc .


left bottom lines and


159 70


Whitley Electric Co


.left top lines and


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Thomas & Howard Co Inc


DURHAM


"FRIENDLY CITY OF INDUSTRY, EDUCATION AND MEDICINE" (Courtesy Durham Chamber of Commerce)


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 has escaped to Greensboro, North Carolina, and there had held fiery debate as to the advisa- bility of continuing the Civil War. Some members of the cabinet favored con- tinuing hostilities 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 that no good could be accomplished by further bloodshed.


Duke University Chapel Tower


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Duke University Stadium; Seating Capacity 56,500; Scene of Rose Bowl Football Game, Jan. 1, 1942.


Part of the Main Quadrangle, Duke University, West Campus


Finally it was decided to instruct General Joseph E. Johnston, 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' con- ference, it was amended to meet General Grant's demands and was signed and approved by the governments 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 historic spot, the birthplace of a reunited nation, is visited each year by thou- sands 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 re- presenting also the entire investment and replacement. History and tradition unite in saying 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 re- turned 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, a 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 cruel and 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 fac- tories 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 indus- trial pursuits in the town.




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