Hill's Gastonia (Gaston County, N.C.) City Directory [1962], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1962
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
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257-59 W. Main Av.


Phone UNiversity 5- 2356


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174-176 W. FRANKLIN AV.


Tels. 865-1236 865-1237


Cocker Machine & Foundry Company Manufacturers of Textile Machinery


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BLACK & DECKER - Electrical Tools


BROWN & SHARPE . Precision Tools CARBORUNDUM - Bonded ond Cooted


Abrosives CARMET . Carbide Tools, Blonks ond Inserts


CLARK . Electricol Controls


CLARK - Steom Trops and Volves


CLIPPER - Belt Locing


COLUMBIA - Ropes


CONSOLIDATED KINETICS . Mounting Pods DIXON - Crayons


DODGE . Tronsmission Equipment


DRONSFIELD - Atlas Emery Fillet


FAFNIR - Ball Bearings


FAIRBANKS . Trucks ond Casters


FAIRBANKS-MORSE - Pumps and Motors


FERRY - Cap and Set Screws GAMISCO · Bobbin Enomel GOODYEAR - Industriol Rubber Goods GRABLER - Pipe Fittings HASKELL - Bolts and Nuts HEIN-WERNER -Hydroulic Jacks INGERSOLL RAND - Air Compressors JABSCO - Pumps


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JENKINS . Volves


JOHNS-MANVILLE - Packings


JOHNSON . Bronze Bors ond Bearings


JONES & LAUGHLIN . Steel


LOWELL - Mill Croyon


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PLEWS - Oilers


PYRENE-CO2 - Fire Extinguishers


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RIDGE - Pipe Tools ond Wrenches


SOUTHERN - Wood Screws ond Stove Bolts SPAULDING . Fibre Cans and Boxes STANDARD - Cutting Tools STANDARD PRESSED STEEL . Socket


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MANUFACTURERS OF TEXTILE MACHINERY


FACILITIES INCLUDE: Patterns, Foundry, Machining, Stainless Steel Fabrication and Sheet Metal Work, Assembly and Engineering.


HIGH SPEED WARPER and CREELS for all synthetic and natural fibres HIGH SPEED SIZERS and CREELS for all synthetic and natural fibres CYLINDER and STEAM DRY SPECIAL SIZE BOXES and DYE BOXES, C( BALL WARPING, SINGEING, LINKING, COI INDIGO DYEING and SLASHER


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HILL'S GASTONIA (GASTON COUNTY, N. C.] CITY DIRECTORY 1962


INCLUDING DALLAS, FLINT MILLS VILLAGES NOS. 1 AND 2, GROVES MILLS VILLAGE, LOWELL, NEW HOPE ACRES, RANLO, SMYRE AND WEST VIEW HEIGHTS


Cantaining an Alphabetical Directary af Business Cancerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directary af Hausehalders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Camplete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephane Di- rectary and Much Infarmatian of a Miscellaneaus Character; alsa a


BUYERS' GUIDE


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The information in this Directory is gathered by an actual canvass and is compiled in a way to insure maximum accuracy.


The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the correctness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors or omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.


The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention of any inaccuracy so that it may be corrected in the next edition of the directory.


Hill Directory Company, Publishers


INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX


HILL DIRECTORY COMPANY, publishers of Southeastern Directories (pub- lishers of the Gastonia City Directory since 1934), presents to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1962 edition of the Gastonia City Directory, which also includes Dallas, Flint Mills Villages Nos. 1 and 2, Groves Mills Village, Lowell, New Hope Acres, Ranlo, Smyre and West View Heights. The inclusion of New Hope Acres is new.


Confidence in the growth of Gastonia'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 Gastonia 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 coop- eration 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 Gastonia Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic in- formation pertaining to the community.


Five Major Departments


The five major departments are arranged in the following order: --


I. THE BUYERS' GUIDE constitutes the first major department, printed on goldenrod paper, and contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Gastonia. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference ad- vertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive community like Gastonia, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is ob- vious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.


II. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is the second major depart- ment, printed on canary 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, industrial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.


III. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns, is the third 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 Gastonia, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the community.


IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AV- ENUE GUIDE is the fourth 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 busi- ness 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 listing of telephone numbers.


V. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY is the fifth major depart- ment, printed on blue paper.


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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX


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 reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Gastonia and vicinity.


The Gastonia Out-of-Town City Directory Library


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Gastonia City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Gastonia Chamber of Com- merce, forfree reference by the general public. This is one of more than 1,000 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities and towns throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico by members of the Association of North Ameri- can 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 COMPANY, Publishers.


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Poge numbers below refer to the Buyers' Guide Section


Page


Able Plating Co . . right top lines and 111 79


Acme Petroleum & Fuel Co Inc. . bottom stencil. right side lines, 67 and


Akers Center Pharmacy Inc


Artistic Memorials Inc. .


Auten Carl W Building Contractor


B & S Machine Co Inc .


left side lines and


Barkley Machine Works


.left side lines and


Beacon The


Belle Chemical Co Inc. back cover, left bottom lines and


Belmont Textile Machinery Co


Bennett Brick & Tile Co


right top cards and


Bradley Flyer & Repair Co .left bottom lines and


Brown-Medlin Drug Store . back lip margin, right side lines and


Brown's Radio & Electric Service.


Bryant Electric Repair Co Inc .


front cover, Insert at Name in


Bryant Supply Co Inc Insert at Bryant Electric Repair Co Inc and


Burrell Melody Center


Caldwell Robert F Insurance Agency.


Caldwell's Drug Store Inc


front cover, right side lines and


Candor Machine Inc.


Carolina Steel Roller Machine Inc


Carothers Funeral Homes Inc .


right top cards, Insert at Name


in Alphabetical Section and 73


Carter Mary Paint Store


right top cards and


Centralized Services Inc .


right top cards and


Citizens National Bank The


front stencil, left top and right bottom


lines, 14 and 15


City Wrecker Service & Garage


10 and


154


Cobb Trucking Co .


.right side lines and


42


Cobb American Service


. right side lines and


123


Cocker Machine & Foundry Co .front cover, left top and right bottom


cards, B, 99 and 128


Cohen's Inc


28


Comer J T & Co left bottom lines and


86


Consolidated Credit Corp left side lines and


96


Cornwell Ernest & Sons Inc right side lines and


31 95


Dixie Concrete Co.


top stencil, right top cards, 39, 50 and


Duke Power Co.


Ferguson Gear Company.


First Federal Savings & Loan Assn right side lines and


121


Franklin Hardware Co right top lines and


Furr's Laundry & Cleaners.


Gaston Body Shop


Gaston Electric Co Inc left side lines and 61 61


Gaston Electric Contractors Inc


left side lines and


Gastonia Belting & Supply Co Inc


148 18


Gastonia Coca-Cola Bottling Co


right side lines and


Gastonia Combed Yarn Division of Botany Cottons Inc. . . right top cards


143 146


Gastonia Floor Sanding & Tile Co


. 43 and 66


Gastonia Glidden Paint Center


left side lines and 109


Gastonia Hearing Aid Service


81


Gastonia Insurance Agency Inc


right top lines and


85


Gastonia Lumber Co . .


right side lires and 21


Gastonia Mill Supply Co The


left bottom lines, A and 148


Gastonia Mutual Savings & Loan Assn.


front cover, left top and right . bottom lines and 122


Gastonia Textile Manufacturing Co Inc right top lines and 144


Gastonia Textile Sheet Metal Works Inc left top cards and 146


. Alphabetical Section and 60 . left bottom lines and 64 104 92 54 126 126


Carter A B Inc .


front cover, right side lines, 102 and 127 108


Cason W H. .


152 2


D & W Leather Products . left side lines and


119 Z 139


First Union National Bank of North Carolina backbone and 16 80


Fulghum James E right top lines and 35 26 10


. and


Gastonia Comber Needling Co .


left top cards and


. left top lines and 52 103 30 124 138 118 24 138 19 125 53 63


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page


Gastonia United Oil Co Inc. . . Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and 68 Gibson Die & Stamping Co Inc . right top cards and 98


H & E Tobacco Co. 149


Haas Textile Parts & Machinery Co


left bottom lines and 129 71


Hagan Oil Co


Harrison Realty Co right top cards and


116


Hawkins Neal Companies .left side lines and 151


Hawkins Neal Contractor . left side lines and


Helen's Dress Shop


Henley Paper Co left top lines and


Hill Directory Company


Holland's Hardware & Builders Supply Co right bottom lines, 20 and 35


. left side lines and


4


Homes Inc . .


right top cards and


32 92


Hopper Jim Insurance Agency


Howe Distributing Co Inc


.left top and right bottom lines, 6 and


Ideal Industries Inc .


right bottom lines, tabbed Insert at Name in


. Alphabetical Section and 130


Ideal Machine Shops Inc


left bottom lines, tabbed Insert at Ideal


131


J & J Electric Service . .


right top lines and


Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co of Greensboro, NC. .. . left bottom lines and 86


Jenkins Cleaners


Jenkins Dairy .left top cards and 45


Jenkins George A Agency Inc


front lip margin and


87


Jenkins Metal Shops Inc .


. left side lines, 100 and 147


John's Toy & Hobby Shop.


Johnson H V & Son of Gastonia Inc left top lines and


left side lines and 78


Kelly R J & Sons Inc .


Kennedy's Rexall Drug Store . left top and right bottom lines and


Kluttz Machine & Foundry Co back cover, left bottom lines, 132 and


133


Kluttz Rings Inc .


back cover, 132 and


133 11


L & S Sales & Service


left top lines and


8


Lee W D & Co


left side lines, Y and 139


36


Lewis Motors Inc of Gastonia left top cards and


11


Lewis Realty & Construction Co


Lewis W D Textile Machinery Co


left side lines and 36 140 42 left top cards and 81


Long Jim Inc .


left side lines and


left bottom lines and


123 140 9


Lytle Buick - Pontiac Inc


.right top lines and


Mann Construction Co


back cover, right side lines and


46


Maxwell Brothers Inc


right side lines and


75 153 66


McClure's Floor Sanding


right bottom lines and


74


McLurd & Babington


left top cards and


29


Moore & Stewart Inc .


left side lines and


12


Morris Jewelry Co Inc.


95 56


Moss Rexall Drugs .


back cover, right top lines and


120


Norris Engineering Co .


17


Norris Supply & Machine Co


84 117


Parker L Jack Realty Co


71


Penegar O G Co Inc . front cover, right top lines and


105


Penner L W Building Contractor


37


Petroleum Transportation Inc


.left side lines and 151


25 62


59


.back cover, right bottom and


83 69


Johnston's Furniture Co . left side lines and 72 55


Leazer's Dock Auto Electric


Lewis Brothers.


Lineberger James R .


Long Ray & Dan Sheet Metal Works


Long Spindle & Machinery Co


left bottom lines, X and 33


Matthews - Belk Co.


McCall Bros Pump & Well Co


McLean & Son Broad Oaks Chapel


left top cards, 93 and 116


Milo Concrete Co


Nolen Concrete Supply Inc. .. back cover, left and right top cards, 40 and Nolen-Smith Concrete Paving Inc .


51


Patterson-Campbell Oil Co


151 28 110


49


Home Appliances Co . .


Howe's T Q Garage Inc


84 7


. Industries in Alphabetical Section and Imperial Chemical Corporation


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Petty Machine Co Inc .


left side lines and


Piedmont Machine Shop Inc


Piedmont Motors Inc


left side lines · · . ·


Quality Cleaners .


Queen's Texaco Service .left side lines and


Rainbow Paint Store. .


Rankin L S & Sons Inc


right top lines and . right side lines and


Rawlings-Lyda Co Inc


left bottom lines and


Rhyne A Leonard Co.


Rhyne M A & Sons Inc.


Rhyne & Simmons.


front cover, left top and right bottom lines and right top lines and


Roach Plating Co


Ro Pat Textile Wood Products


Rosdahl Machinery Riggers & Movers


right top cards and Roseboro William "Bill" Building Contractor


Roy B S & Son Company .


Rudisill Brothers Co Inc.


St Michael's Catholic Church.


Schneider Leon Inc


Sears J C & Sons


right bottom lines and


Seth Lumber Co Inc


Sherrill Manufacturing Co Inc


Shuford J Fred Construction Co.


Smart Shop The. .


Smith Chevrolet Co Inc right bottom lines and


Smith W Z "Bill" Insurance Agency .right top cards and


Smith's Cut Rate Drugs. . Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and


Southeastern Plating Co Inc.


Spencer Lumber Co Inc . .


back cover, right top lines, 23 and


Spencer's Inc .


front cover, left top lines and right top cards and


Stewart Paul Machine Co Inc


Summerrow Furniture Co.


right top lines, 77 and


Summey Drug Co.


Sunrise Dairy Inc


Superior Bolster Co right top cards and


Textile Parts & Machine Co Inc.


137


Thermo Control Service Inc


right side lines and


Vogue The .


left top cards and


Watson Insurance Agency Inc.


Welding & Industrial Supply Inc


Whisnant Howard Furniture Co Inc.


78


Whitesides & Co


left top lines and


91


Wilson & Minges Co.


. left side lines, 3 and 115


Wilson Transfer Co Inc


left bottom lines and 150


Wix Corporation . . left top cards and 13


Yancey W Harrelson


117


Yarborough & Elrod Inc


114


Young Insurance Agency.


left top lines and


93


Young Mercantile Co Inc.


83


82 89 27 90 152


Todd Insurance Agency


88 57 113 97 107 38 141 94 58 44 142


Stewart J H & Sons


left side lines and 106 45 136 112 149 101 37 141 82 25 47 34 left top cards and 22 145 38 48 13


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134 135


59 12 C 70 76 125


Rayfield & Stewart Inc


GASTONIA


"City of Unlimited Opportunity"


(Courtesy of Gastonia Chamber of Commerce)


Location and History


Gastonia is pleasantly and strategically located in the geographical center of the Piedmont Section of the Carolinas. This Piedmont is the section between the Coastal Plain on the east and the mountains on the west; it runs north-east and south-west; its average elevation above sea level is about 800 feet; and it contains the greatest concentration of population and industry in the southeast.


The section which now contains Gastonia and Gaston County was settled by Scotch-Irish and German settlers during the last half of the eighteenth century. These pioneers laid out their farms along the fertile countryside where only the Catawba Indians had previously lived. They treated the Indians fairly, there was no trouble between the races, and the Catawbas fought with them against other Indian tribes and in their struggles during the Revolutionary War. It is no sur- prise that the Battle of Kings Mountain, the turning point of the Revolutionary War, was fought only 20 miles from Gastonia by these same pioneers who were determined to preserve their political and religious freedom.


Photo by Harley Ferguson


Twenty miles west of Gastonia, the Kings Mountain National Military Park, the turning point of the Revolutionary War. Thousands of tourists visit this historic spot every year. This is a picture of the battleground monument.


In 1846 Gaston County, of which Gastonia is the County Seat, was formed by a division of Lincoln County. It derives its name from Colonel William Gaston who was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and a con- gressman from North Carolina serving in the House of Representatives. Gaston is relatively small in area, having only 358 square miles.


Gaston County was only two years old when its first cotton manufacturing plant, the Mountain Island Mill, began operations. In 1852 the Woodlawn of "Pin- hook Mill" began making textiles, and from these small beginnings the county has developed into the foremost textile manufacturing county in the nation -- it consumes more cotton and has more active spindles than any other county.


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This is a reproduction of the Woodlawn Factory of "Pinhook" Mill, as it was more familiarly known. It was built in 1849, in Gaston County, operated by water power, and was the second textile manufacturing plant in Gaston County.


Two modern textile manufacturing plants in Gastonia. Twenty three thousand people are engaged in manufacturing textile products in Gaston.


From a predominantly agricultural economy in the beginning, Gastonia and its mother county have developed during the century into North Carolina's third largest industrial county. While Gaston has maintained its supremacy in textile manufacturing, it has also diversified and added to its long list of products, in the making of which 29,000 persons are employed.


From a crossroads settlement, Gastonia was incorporated in 1877 and has grown to over 37,000, and a metropolitan population of 60,000. Lots of its manu- factured products have an international market, and its good industrial climate beckons other industries to come and enjoy its benefits. With all its rapid, but stable growth, it has not neglected its educational, cultural, religious and rec- reational facilities.


For several generations the predominant industry has been manufacturing, and with this background the people possess an inherited aptitude for mechanical work and an ability to compete successfully. Census reports indicate that 47 % of employed persons are engaged in manufacturing and 32 % in white collar occupations. Those employers who have had occasion to compare Gastonians with those from elsewhere are very positive in their tributes as to their loyalty


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A few of the great variety of textile products made in Gastonia.


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Gastonia's great asset is its people-quick and eager to learn and conservative in their thinking


and the readiness with which they acquire mechanical skills. They are quick and eager to learn, cooperative and friendly in their attitude to their employer, and basically conservative in their thinking.


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Completely adequate transportation facilities are at your "finger tips" in Gastonia. These facilities consist of three railroads, twenty-five motor freight carriers, a network of four U. S. and three State Highways, and the Douglas Air- port, fifteen miles distant, which schedules 100 passenger and freight flights per day.


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All means of transportation are readily available to Gastonia and its varied enterprises.


Retail Trade


Gastonia's trading area includes Gaston County and spills over into three adjoining counties, with an aggregate population of 250,000. The latest estimate by Sales Management gives Gastonia total retail sales of $66,458,000 and Gaston County $114,535,000.


Financial


Supporting Gastonia's spectacular growth is an aggressive attitude on the part of its banking fraternity and a formidable array of assets available from its three banks and two savings and loan associations. There are seven local branches for the convenience of banking customers.


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Shoppers can have their most fastidious needs satisfied at Gastonia's mercan- tile counters.


One of the numerous plants in Gastonia where textile machinery is made.


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Educational and Cultural


The educational facilities of the community are closely adjusted to its in- dustrial, economic and cultural needs. Beyond the level of the splendid public and parochial schools are Belmont Abbey College (Senior), Sacred Heart Acad- emy, a junior school for girls, Gaston Technical Institute with four two-year terminal courses in technology, the North Carolina Vocational Textile School, the Industrial Education Center with vocational courses for high school students and adults, the Evans College of Commerce and the Gaston Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. The Gaston County Nature Museum has had wide acclaim for the great variety of its fossils, artifacts, mineral and animal specimens. Many choral and study groups and associations and clubs add greatly to Gastonia as an attractive place to live and do business. The County Library with 110,000 volumes, has seven branches over the county for the convenience of all the people.




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