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(GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1963
Including Allen Jay, Archdale and Emerywood Estates
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
. Numerical telephone directory
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY COMPANY , publishers of Southeastern Directories (pub- lishers of the High Point City Directory since 1933), presents to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1963 edition of the High Point City Directory, which also includes Allen Jay, Archdale and Emerywood Estates.
Confidence in the growth of High Point'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 High Point 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 High Point 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 business cards of firms and individuals desiring to make a complete presentation of their prod- ucts or services. Following this is the Classified Business section, 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 High Point, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Di- rectory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and profes- sional 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 status, occupation and address of each adult resident of High Point, and the name, of- ficial personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the com- munity .
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 designation of tenant- owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY is the fourth major de- partment, printed on blue paper.
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The High Point Out-of-Town City Directory Library
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Page numbers below refer to the Buyers' Guide Section
Page
Acme Saw & Tool Co
174
Albertson Auction Co left bottom lines and 5
Alderman Studios Inc right top lines and 141
Allison Knitting Mills Inc
38
Anderson's Drug Store No 2 .
Anderson's West End Drug Store
Anvil Brand Inc right top and left bottom lines and
Archdale Mattress Co 126
Atlantic Insurance & Realty Co 110 and 166
Atlantic Savings & Loan Association
171
Autry F M Plumbing & Heating Co
144
B B S Studios Inc right bottom lines and
142
B & R Builders . right top lines and
B & T Construction Co right bottom lines and
Bailey Bruce A Associates Insurance Agency
Bailey's Flowers & Shrubs right top cards and
right top cards and 155
Beeson Hardware Co Inc
Blackwell Insurance Agency Inc right side lines and
Blossom Shop . .
Bob's Pure Oil Truck & Auto Service
Bolin Roofing Co
Boren Clay Products Co right top cards and
Boyles Insurance Agency Inc The back cover, right bottom lines and
105
Bray Electric Co Inc left side lines and
Bray Electric Motor Repair Co
Brower Oil Co .
Brown Raymond Well Drilling Co
Bryant Electric Co Inc left top lines and
Carolina Auto Glass Co
Carolina Truck & Trailer Sales Inc
191
Carrick Turning Works Inc right side lines, Z and
Causey's Furniture Co Inc
Central Ice & Coal Co
Central Monument Co
City Shoe Repair . right top cards and
left bottom lines and 1.79
City Transfer & Storage Co . . right side lines and
133
City Transit Co of High Point right side lines, 32 and City WeIding Co right side lines, 181 and
36 194 74 25
Coltrane J Wiley Contractor left bottom lines and
50 90
Conrad Donald W Agency
left top lines and 166
Conrad James S Inc .
156
Consolidated Bus Lines Inc
190
Corn Oil Co . back cover, right bottom lines, 80 and
Cornelison's Florist
Countee Radio & Television Service
Cranford Roy T .
139
Craven, Johnson, Pollock Inc left bottom lines and
157
Craver's T V and Appliance
187 149
Crown Printing Co
Cumby Mortuary Inc
front cover, 3 and Curt Manufacturing Co Inc
Darr J L & Son
. left side lines and
Davis Harold C Inc
right side lines and 87
Davis John C Plumbing & Heating Co
right bottom lines and
Davis W A Milling Co Inc
left bottom lines and
Deluxe Saw & Tool Co
Dependable Frame Co
right top cards and
174 99 12
Dillon Auto Parts Inc
72 71 82 195 66 17
Banks Septic Tank Service
115 50 110 77 175
Beard W H Realty Co .
right side lines, 32 and 102 113 78 12 170 26
93 91 79 1.27
Clinard Milling Co Inc left side lines and Coca-Cola Bottling Co of High Point right side lines and
Commercial Finishing Co
135 77 153
Creative Print Shop The
149 86 94 43
51 73
Allred Metal Stamping Works right side lines, Y and 127 62
62 37
tabbed Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and
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Dixie Realty & Insurance Co
Dixon H C .
Dobbins Electric Co
Duke Power Co . .
Duke Refining Corp
Dutch Laundry Inc
Electrical Living Services Inc
right side lines and
English Motor Co Inc .
. right top lines and
English Radio & T V Service Inc
. left top lines and
Farlow John W, Jr
right side lines and
Flex-O-Lators Inc
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
Forrest J Howard Insurance
Fowler R D Motor Lines Inc
. left top lines and
Furniture City Gulf Service
left bottom lines and
Furniture City Motel Inc
G & J Machine Shop Inc
right top cards and
Gallimore J Ray Concrete Finishing Co
Garner Motors .
General Heating Service
General Tire Service Inc
Glenola Frame Works Inc
Go-Forth Exterminators
Gragg J F . front lip margin, right bottom lines and
Gragg Paint Company
left side lines and
Graham J R & Son Inc
Granville Bonded Warehouse
right side lines and
Gray Concrete Pipe Co Inc
Guil-Rand Realty Co . left bottom lines and
Guilford Memorial Park Inc
Guilford Monument Co Inc
H-B Custom Tailors
Haley Transfer & Storage Inc
Hall Printing Co . . .
Harmon Realty Co
Harris Music Co Inc
left side lines and
Harris Realty Co .
Haywood & Rankin Inc
front stencil, right side lines and
Hedgecock Lumber Co Inc
Heilig R L Roofing Co right side lines and
Henderson & Mooney Mfg Co Inc left bottom lines and
Herndon John W Agency
right bottom lines and
High Point Boiler & Tank Co Inc
High Point Broadcasting Co Inc
High Point Canvass Shop Inc .
right side lines and
High Point Chamber of Commerce
High Point Coal & Oil Co
High Point College . right top lines and
High Point Concrete Products
High Point Hardware Co Inc . left top lines and
High Point Laundry Inc left bottom lines, 64 and
Highland Motors Inc left top and right bottom lines and
Hill Directory Company
Hilliard Motor Co
Hilton J C Garage
Hotel Sheraton The
Hunter Air Conditioning & Heating Inc . 2 and Hunter Coal & Oil Co Inc front cover, left side lines, 38 and
A and 104 103 82
Hunter & Co . right top lines and 193
153
Hutchens-Justice Electronics right top cards and
53
Hylton Bill Inc
right bottom lines and
Ilderton Horace G Inc .
Industrial Lithographic Co Inc
148 178 114
Jacobs Tin Shop
Johnson B F Agency Inc left side lines and
150
Johnson Electronics
Jones & Peacock Inc left side lines and
112
right side lines and 59
Julian Tile Co The
Page 158 116 71 149 23 117
back bone, right top cards, 63 and
Ellington's Florist & Greenhouses
left side lines and
. right bottom lines and
.left top lines and 66 75 7 186 113 100 left top lines and 34 111 130 177 left top lines and 128 125 56 13 103 8 96 72 51 138 44 · 131 41 159 33 127 182 132 146 168 134 160 left top lines and 111 28 52 96 114 52 24 151 20 35 79 39 40 102 118 9 61 13 14
Idol-Green Co Realtors
161 167 14
Hutton Joseph E Masonry Contractor left top lines and
front cover, right top cards and
Hester Ralph Building Contractor
right top cards and tabbed Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and
right side lines and
right side lines and
right top cards and
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Karen Inc
Kearns Tent & Awning Co
. back cover, right bottom and side lines, 19 and 101
Kennedy Oil Co Inc back cover, right side lines, 81 and 136
Kennedy's Mobile T V Service . left side lines and 187 125 Kester Machinery Co 97
Kitchen-Queen Inc right side lines, B and
Koonce Funeral Home Inc left top lines, 4 and 88
Koonts Realty Inc . left top lines and Lester's Jewelers
162 115
Linthicum W E & Son Inc
Lowder Supply Co Inc . right side lines and Lyn-Mar Camera Shop . . . . top stencil, tabbed Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section, 42 and 57 29 143 M & Y Garage . 15 98 Madison Frame Co Inc 60 Mail-O-Tronic Inc right top cards and Mangum Concrete Co left bottom lines and 55 Marietta Paint & Color Division of Martin Marietta Corp 92 · Marietta Paint Store left side lines and 137 114 24
Marsh G Reid . right side lines and
Marshall's Beauty Salon
Martin Marietta Corp front cover
15
McEwen Lumber Co Inc
123
Mendenhall Auction Co Inc right top cards and 6
Mendenhall-Moore Realtors
front cover, right top and left bottom lines, 106 and
163
Mickey Printing Co
Midway Seafood Restaurant
Mitchell Septic Tank Service
175 95 164
Monk George Realty Co .
back cover, left side lines and
168 19 2
Myrtie's Shop
195 60
National Bureau of Investigation
Neill Pontiac Inc . right top cards and
17
New Service Laundry Inc left side lines, 64 and 118
New South Service Station left side lines and 177
New York Life Insurance Co right side lines and 114
North Carolina National Bank
front cover, right top and left bottom lines and 21
North State Telephone Co right top and left bottom lines, 184 and
185
Oakview Printing Co right side lines and
149 17
Paramount Furniture Co Inc
91
Payne Truck Sales Inc .
192
Peace's Trailer Court
189 79
Peerless Wood Yard
Perpetual Savings & Loan Association right side lines and
172
Phipps R A & Son . . back cover, right top lines and 45
Piedmont Auto Finance Co
. left side lines and 121 68 and 69 83
Piedmont Savings & Loan Association
front cover, left bottom lines and 173
Piedmont Trailer Repairs Inc
right bottom lines and 190
Powell, Kistler & Co
182
Powers Wire Staple Co Inc
right top cards and
181 180
Purcell Supply Co
3 and
144
Putman J C & Son
53
R & H Insulation Co Inc
Radio Station W M F R Inc right top cards and 152
Rent-A -Car Inc 18 and
191
Reynolds J C, Jr . C and 54
Rhodes Auto Repair
right side lines and 17
Rich's Auto Service
16
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May J Sturgis & Co Inc
Mauldin W F Inc . right top lines and 27
148 169
Monarch Furniture Co Inc
Moore Malcolm G Realtor
Murrow Clyde L .
Odell's Auto Repair
Piedmont Electric Repair Co Inc
Piedmont Petroleum & Fuel Co Inc
Pugh's Sporting Goods Inc
left side lines and Queen Carving Inc
98 58
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Ring-Harris Pharmacy Inc .
Rose Radio & T V Sales & Service
154
Royals Insurance Agency
112
Ruth Machine Service
180 119
Sartin's Cleaners and Launderers left side lines, 65 and
Scottish Bank The . back cover, left top lines, 22 and
120
Sechrest J W & Son Inc back cover, right top lines, 4 and
89
Servisign Company The
left top lines and
Shaver Oil Co . .
Sheppard Motor & Supply Co right top cards
. A and
Sheraton Hotel The . .
right side lines and
Siceloff Oil Co
Simpson Taylor M Co
Sloop Auto Service
right top cards and
Smith J C Remodeling Co
Smith Paul Studio .
left side lines and
Smith's Home Improvement
bottom stencil and
Snow Lumber Co Inc
left side lines, 30 and
Snyder Paper Corp
Southeastern Marble & Tile Co Inc
Southern Motors Inc . left side lines and
Southern Saw & Tool Co Inc
Southern Welding & Machine Co Inc left side lines, 58, 182 and
Southland Factors Corporation right side lines and
Southland Supply Co Inc right bottom lines and
Spivey's Oil Co .
Stanford-Marley Inc left side lines and
right bottom lines and
Stewart R K & Sons
right side lines, 54 and
Street Paint Co
Summey Plumbing Co
Tar Heel Paving Co Inc
Taro's Restaurant
Teague R A Pump Co
Texaco Inc .
.right bottom lines and
Turpin Electric Co front cover, right side lines and
Underwood G W Paving & Grading Inc
United Auto Salvage Co Inc
United Cab Associates Inc
left bottom lines, 54 and
Vick Paint & Wallpaper Co Inc left side lines and
Viking Sprinkler Co
W H P E Radio Station front cover, right top cards and
W MR F Radio Station left top cards and
Wachovia Insurance, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co left top lines and
right side lines, 11 and
Warner's Transfer and Storage Co
Warrell's Archie Garage
Washburn Oil Co
Welborn Allen B Inc
left top lines, tabbed Insert at Street Guide, 108 and
109
Wheeler L F & Son Inc
right top cards and 48
White Murray M Inc
right bottom lines and
113
White & Wright Realtors
. left side lines and
168 78 76
Williams Flowers & Gifts
left side lines and
124
Wilson Machine Co .
left side lines and
116
Witcher E M Landscaping
90
Wood-Armfield Furniture Co Inc
74
Wood Geo T & Sons Inc
126
Wright Frame Works
36
Wright-Womble-Pitts Inc
91
Yokeley Furniture Co
right bottom lines and Younts E E Inc
49
104 129 84 169 18 59 143 46 165 122 100 60 10 189 194 121 31 84 167 47 138 145 59 170 2 85 129 70 140 16
Town House Motel .
Varner Electric Inc
right side lines and
left side lines and 183 71 139 180 151 152
Wagner Tire Service Inc
114 188 133 18 176
Whitlark's Flowers & Gifts
left side lines and
62
147 83
Sheraton Motor Inn & Restaurant
Smithdeal Curtis Inc
HIGH POINT
AN INDUSTRIAL CENTER, WHERE IT IS ALSO A PLEASURE TO LIVE
"HIGH POINT, AN ALL-AMERICAN CITY OF 1963"
(Courtesy High Point Chamber of Commerce)
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Aerial View of High Point
Statistical Review
Form of Government-Council-Manager.
Population-1960 U. S. Census for city proper, 62,063 (1963 estimated 63,900). American-born, 99.5 per cent. Predominating nationality of foreign- born residents, Greek, .5 per cent. Total Negro population, 18.0 per cent. Area -- 30.3 square miles.
Altitude-940 feet above sea level.
Climate- Mean annual temperature, 58 degrees F .; average rainfall, 47.17 inches.
Assessed Valuation for 1962, $215,392,844 with $1.20 per $100 tax rate. Bonded Debt-$13,644,000.
Financial Data-5 banks with total deposits of $75 million (Dec. 31, 1962) and total resources of $85 million (Dec. 31, 1962). 3 savings and loan associa- tions with total assets of $39,000,000.
Postal Receipts-$1,369,229.54 (Calendar year 1962).
Telephones in Service-31,250. Exchange area coverage 290 square miles; 86 PBX systems; 289 toll circuits providing nationwide and overseas long distance service.
Value Building Permits-$9,499,700 (1962).
Churches-137, representing 17 denominations.
Industry-Chief industry of city and surrounding territory is manufacturing.
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420 manufacturing establishments employing 12,600 men and 8,400 women, total 21,000 and paying wages of $70,000,000 annually. Principal manufactured prod- ucts: Hosiery, textiles, furniture, chemicals, metal products, electronics, etc.
Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 25 miles and population of 450,000; wholesale area-radius of 50 miles, and population of 1,350,000.
Newspapers-1, daily and Sunday.
Broadcasting Stations-WMFR, WHPE and WNOS.
Hotels-3, with total of 300 rooms.
Motels-14, with total of 429 rooms.
Railroads-2: Southern; High Point, Thomasville & Denton.
Bus Lines-Greyhound Lines, Carolina Coach Lines, Queen City Lines and Greensboro-Fayetteville Lines.
Highways-U. S. 29, 70, 311, 68, 61 and 62. Interstate 85 and 40.
Airlines-Eastern Airlines, Piedmont Airlines and United Airlines.
Airports-3: (1 commercial and 2 private for small planes).
Amusements-Largest auditorium in city (school) seats 1,300, next 1,000 persons. 3 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 5,000 persons. Golf Courses-3.
Hospitals-1, with 240 beds.
Public Libraries -- 2, with total of 60,000 volumes, and Book Mobile with 1,000 volumes.
City Statistics-Total street mileage, 282.29 with 191.01 miles hard surfaced. Miles of gas mains, 91; sewers, 255; number of water meters, 16,088; light meters, 16,254; gas meters, 6,369. Capacity of water works (municipal), 12,000,000 gallons; filtered water storage, 13,000,000 gallons; daily average pumpage capacity, 7,000,000 gallons; and capacity of sewage treatment plants, 12,000,000 gallons daily; miles of mains, 195; value of water and sewer plants, $6,000,000. Fire department has 97 men with six stations and 1 new station under construction, and 17 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $535,500.00. Police department has 93 police with 1 station and 27 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 3 meter checkers, 5 clerks and 17 school crossing guards.
Origin of Name
High Point was originally on the Indian Trail extending from the sea-shore to the mountains.
High Point derived its name from a statement made by Captain Gregg, chief engineer of the surveyors of the North Carolina Railroad, from Goldsboro to Charlotte (now leased by the Southern Railway); in which he said, "This is the highest point along the whole survey, so we will mark it High Point."
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Industry
High Point occupies the unique position of being the Southern center of two major industries-furniture and hosiery manufacturing.
The first furniture factory was established in 1888-today there are 100 furniture factories located here manufacturinga complete line of wooden house - hold furniture including office desks and other equipment.
Located here are six furniture exhibition buildings for the exhibition of furni - ture, rugs, floor coverings and other household furnishings to the dealer-the fourteen-story Southern Furniture Exposition Building, the Tomlinson Exhibition Building, the Merchandise Mart, the Southeastern American Furniture of Mar- tins ville, New South Furniture Building and the Manufacturers Furniture Market, with combined floor space of 619,920 square feet. Over 555 manufacturers of household furnishings exhibit their products in this-This Southern Furniture and Rug Market, SFE Building has 23 acres of exhibit space.
The daily capacity of the 30 hosiery mills of High Point exceeds 60,000 dozen pairs of hose. The manufacture of hosiery ranges from infants' hose to full- fashioned hose. The volume in men's half hose being predominant. First hosiery mill established in 1905.
There is a wide diversity of manufacturing in High Point-in addition to 100 furniture factories and 30 hosiery mills, there are 290 other diversified manu- facturing plants. Among these are plants manufacturing : Overalls, work shirts, men's summer clothing, mattresses, box springs, pillows, veneers, plywoods, fibre glass boats, art glass, paints, enamels, varnishes, lacquers, sealers, stains, fillers, undercoats and reducers, building material, mirrors, glass furniture and novelties, toys, hosiery transfers, embossers' labels and seals, silk and rayon weaving, hosiery and underwear yarns, dyes, chemicals and tex- tile oil specialties, paper boxes, corrugated shipping containers, television cabinets, textile spools, polyether foam, electronics, tools and dies, etc.
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