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(CABARRUS COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1951
Including China Grove and Landis
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 Numerical Telephone Directory, Rural Routes and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also a
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Direc- tories, present to subscribers ani the general public, this, the 1951 edition of the Kannapolis City Directory, which also includes China Grove, Landis and the rural routes emanating from the Kannapolis and China Grove Post Offices.
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Six Major Departments (Each department beginning with Page 1)
The six major departments are arranged in the following order :--
I. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and busi- ness and professional concerns is the first 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 res- ident of Kannapolis, and the name, official personnel, nature and ad- dress of each firm and corporation in the city. A special feature of this section is the designation of the number of children under Di- rectory-listing age in each household.
II. THE BUYERS' GUIDE, the second major department, printed on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufac- turing, business and professional interests of Kannapolis. The adver- tisements, are indexed under headings descriptive of the business rep- resented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a sur- vey by all buyers eager tofamiliarize themselves with sources of sup- ply. In a progressive community like Kannapolis, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
III. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is the third major department, printed on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. Thisfeature constitutes an invaluable and indis- pensable 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 commer- cial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, onpink paper, is the fourth major department. Inthis 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 or .- der 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 RURAL ROUTES DIRECTORY, covering the rural routes out of the Kannapolis and China Grove Post Offices, is the fifth major department, printed on white paper.
VI. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the sixth major department.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION. THE YELLOW PAGES
Page
Aetna Loan & Finance Co right center lines and 91
Allen's Trim & Upholstering
19
Auto Finance Co . right bottom lines and 92
B & W Building Contractors
33
B & W Supply Co back cover, left side lines and
22
Barnhardt Archie Y Co
102
Barnhardt Bruce T
51
Beasley-Cross Chevrolet Co . front cover, right side lines and
3
Beaver Lumber & Supply Co right lip margin and
Z
Belk's Department Store back cover, left top lines and
36
Bell Music & Stationery Co right center lines and
98 100
Bob & Chick 62 and.
Brigman Transfer Co
Brown-Dexter Co Inc . . right center lines and
121 52
Brumley-Funderburk Furniture Co right side lines, 66 and 80
Burton's Cabinet Shop left center lines and 27 23
C & D Supply Co . left side lines and
Cabarrus Bank & Trust Co front cover, right top lines and 20
Cabarrus Exterminating Co right bottom lines and
Cabarrus Ice & Fuel Co . left side lines and
Cabarrus Motor Supply . right center lines and
Caldwell Furniture Shoppe
Can-Tex Service Station
Cannon's Service Station . left bottom lines and
Centerview Taxi
Central Furniture Co
left side lines and 118 68 86
Childress Bros Home Furnishing Co left bottom lines and 69
China Grove Furniture Co. . . back cover, left top lines, 69 and China Grove Hardware Co left bottom lines and
79 77
China Grove Ice & Fuel Co 31 and 82 92
Colonial Finance Co
Colonial Frozen Foods of Kannapolis Inc.
61
Concord Perpetual Building & Loan Association
Cox Motor Co back cover, right top lines and 53
right bottom lines and
4
Cress Refrigeration right bottom lines and 53
Critz-Taylor Plumbing & Heating Contractors
Daily Independent The
right top lines and
99
Dayvault's
39
Dixie Cleaners
46 A
Duke Power Co
46
Durham B W Real Estate left top lines and 107
Durham B Elwood Real Estate . top stencil, left top lines and 108
Dwiggins J V Jewelers . left bottom lines and 86
Easy Loan & Finance Co left bottom lines and 93
Economy Electric & Refrigeration Service
left center lines, 51 and 110
Economy Finance Co Inc right side lines and Efird R M Building Supply Co
back cover, left bottom lines and 23
Efird R M Contractor back cover, left bottom lines and 34
Efird's Department Store . . back cover, right bottom lines and
37
517298
right side lines and 104
Davis Thrift Store
38
Dove Bill Motor Co
left lip margin, left side lines and
95
54 31 12
68 12 13
Chapman's Jewelry right top lines and
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Electric Motor Service
52
Fabric Shop The
55
Firestone Home & Auto Supplies
front cover, right top lines and 18
Flower Shop The
Forty Four Shop The
Fox C F Cash Grocery
left bottom lines and 59 27 75 93
Friendly Finance Co
Gables Inc right side lines and
Gaddy Bros
Glass Shop The left center lines and
Godfrey & Ridenhour Cabinet & Carpenter Shop
Graham Earl Modern Photography left top lines and
Grant Motor Co. backbone, left side lines, 6 and
Gregory H J Motor Co. right bottom lines and
Hall Motor Co left top lines and
Hardiman's Inc.
Haywood-Richmond Hardware left center lines and
Hill's Clothing Store left side lines and
Hinson Foy Radio Service
Holbrook's Radio & Television Service. . right bottom lines and
Home Building & Loan Association. . right top lines and
Home Heating Co The tabbed insert at streets
Howard John A
Ideal Electric Co
Ideal Motor Co
Insulators Inc right bottom lines and Jackson Park Grill left side lines and
14 82 110
Jackson Park Grocery left bottom lines and
75
Jewel Shoppe Inc The
left top lines and
87 112
Joe's Sandwich Shop
left bottom lines and
70
Kannapolis Drug Co left center lines and 39
Kannapolis Florist left bottom lines and
59 71
Kannapolis Furniture Co right center lines and Kannapolis Ice & Fuel Co. . bottom stencil, left center lines and Kannapolis Laundry
30
Kannapolis Merchants Ass Inc left side lines and 35
Kannapolis Plumbing & Electric Co
103
Kannapolis Real Estate Agency
109 Y 122
Kannapolis Well Drilling Contractors
right side lines and Keller Motor Co Inc
112
King. J H & Sons right center lines and
34 60
Kiser's Florist
left side lines and
101
Lady's Funeral Home
left side lines and
91
Lee R B General Insurance left side lines and
83
Lee's Tin Shop
left side lines and
115
Leonard W H Jr Jewelers
. left top lines and 87 56
Lowery Furniture Co.
left center lines and Martin Drug Co.
14 40
Maxwell Bros Furniture Co. front cover, right top lines and
67
Mckinley's Service left bottom lines and 15
Merchants & Farmers Bank right top lines and
19
Midway 5 & 10c Store left bottom lines and
74
Mills Florist
left center lines and
60
Miss Deb's 29
9
Ketner's Seafoods
Kluttz Lee Piano Co.
front cover, right side lines and 64
Launderite
Linoleum Shop The
left bottom lines and
71
Magneto & Electric Service
28 B 74 26 101 7
8 13 70 78 28 106 107 24 47
48
Johnston's Furniture Co right side lines and
89
Kannapolis Store Co
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
VII
Modern Finance Corp
Modern Floor Covering Co left side lines and 57
Motor Parts Service Co. . left side lines and 15
Mull Bill Furniture & Appliance Co right bottom lines and
81
Mullinax Insurance Agency Inc left center lines and
Murray's left side lines and
Myers Bootery
North Side Lumber Co 24 and 96
O K Floor Covering Co .
58
Odell W C Insurance Agency . left top lines and
84
Outen's Florist
61
Penney J C Co Inc left center lines and
38
Perkins Sam D
113
Pethel Motor Co Inc
10
Petrea M N & Sons
76
Phillips Electric Service
49
Piedmont Cleaners
41
Price Furniture Co
72
Prim Neon Sign Co .
117
Puritan Laundry & Cleaners
front cover, right center lines, 45 and
89
Query-Goodman Co
116
Reliable Finance Co right side lines and
94
Ritchie Hardware Co Inc. . right top lines, left bottom lines and
78
Roberts Jewel Shoppe right side lines and
88
Roberts Ray R
right bottom lines and
Ross Laundry Inc right center lines and
Rustin Furniture Co The left center lines and
Sanitary Cafe
right top lines and 21
Service Oil Co .
16 and
62
Sides Maytag Co left bottom lines and
121
Singer Sewing Machine Co
114 76
Sloop Brothers Grocery
Smith F L Drug Co Inc . right center lines and 40
Solomon's Ted Cleaners & Furriers
42
Sprott-Elliott Furniture Co right top lines and
73
Standard Service Station
right center lines and
16
Star Dry Cleaners .
X
Sunshine Laundry & Cleaners
front cover, left top lines, 45 and 90
Taylor's Hatchery . right bottom lines, 55 and
79
Towel City Finance Co
95
Towel City Furniture Co
right top lines and
73 120
Trexler C L & Co right center lines and
54
Triece's Concrete Plant right side lines and 32
Triece's Independent Coal Co right side lines, 32 and
63
U-Needa Cleaners Inc left bottom lines and
43
Wagner A A Co.
Wagner C C Motor Co left center lines and
Wensil L R Co.
. right center lines and
17
White Hill Electric
50
White Top Cabs
119
Whitley W H & Sons Inc
front stencil, front cover, left side lines, 2 and 65
Whitmire-Falls Inc left center lines and 85
Willeford's Jewelers left center lines and
88
Williams Printing Co right side lines, 100 and
106
Wrenn's Cleaners right bottom lines and
44
Wrenn's Men's Shop. . left center lines and
29
Wyatt Transfer & Storage Co back cover and 118
Yoos H R Motor Co Inc . back cover, right side lines and
11
Towel City Theatres Inc
77 17 105
Western Auto Associate Store
right center lines and
Page 94
83 C 116
84 90 72 111
Security Bank & Trust Co
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KANNAPOLIS
"THE TOWEL CITY"
(Courtesy City Editor, Daily Independent)
Statistical Review
Population-U. S. Post Office Department estimate, 35,000.
Area-30 square miles (estimated). Boundaries are arbitrary, not official.
Altitude-803 feet above sea level.
Financial Data-Cabarrus Bank & Trust Co., with deposits of $24,598,096.69 (Oct. 4, 1950), and resources of $ 27,213,328.03 (Oct. 4, 1950); Security Bank & Trust Co., with deposits of $ 6,020,426.52 (Oct. 4, 1950), and resources of $ 6,594,464.30 (Oct. 4, 1950).
Postal Receipts-$155,000 (1950).
Churches-50, representing 20 denominations.
Industry-Cotton textile manufacturing. Principal manufactured products: Towels, sheets, pillowcases and other household textiles.
Newspapers-1 daily and Sunday.
Railroads-Southern Railway.
Highways-U. S. 29 and 29-A.
Airports-2
Amusements-Largest auditorium in city (theatre) seats 1,100. 6 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 4,200. 1 golf course near city.
Hospitals-Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, between. Kannapolis and Concord, serves this area.
Education-9 public schools, including 1 senior high. Number of pupils in public schools, 5,364; teachers, 179.
Public Libraries-1, with 9,389 volumes.
Main Street, where the first store in Kannapolis was constructed, includes some of the finest shops in the state.
X
INTRODUCTION
General Review
Astride the Cabarrus-Rowan county line, Kannapolis is thirty miles north of Charlotte. U. S; Highway 29 runs a few blocks east of the principal business district, while 29-A isthe town's main street.
There are ample transportation facilities. The New York-New Orleans line of the Southern Railway and Carolina Coach-National Trailways buses serve Kannapolis.
Center of social and religious life in Kannapolis is the handsome and spacious Cannon Memorial Y. M. C. A.
The Post Office Department estimates the present population to be 35,000.
Kannapolis' 340 retail firms did $28,000,000 worth of business in 1948. Effective purchasing power of Cabarrus County that year was $862 per capita, which compared favorably with state and national av- erages.
The people here are church-goers. They make up more than 50 congregations.
And they have a keen civic spirit, working through such organiza - tions as the Masons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, Red Men, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Junior Order United American Me- chanics, Business Men's Club, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Lions International, Pilot Club, Credit Women's Breakfast Club, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and their auxiliaries, War Dads, War Mothers, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Independent Student Aid Association, Red Cross and dozens of fellowship clubs for all ages.
The heart of the community is the Cannon Memorial Y. M. C. A. which claims one of the largest memberships under one roof in the world-wide organization. At the end of the 1950 campaign, the rolls listed the names of 9,500 men, women, boys and girls.
It operates ina Colonial-style structure that cost $500,000 in the years before World War II, when money went much farther than it goes today. Facilities include two large gymnasiums, three kitchens, a library that ranks with the finest in North Carolina, a spacious swimming pool, a health club, handball and volleyball courts, bowling alleys, billiard and tennis tables and numerous club and conference rooms.
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This large neon sign overlooking the Cannon Mills lake portrays the famous trademark of Cannon products.
Kannapolis' public schools bow to none in North Carolina. Enroll- ment this year is a record 5,364 boys and girls. W. J. Bullock is superintendent.
Cannon High is known widely for its diversified courses, offer- ing: The prescribed academic studies, home economics, vocational courses, art, dramatics, music, debating, journalism, physical edu- cation and Bible.
The public school music program begins in the first grade and extends through Cannon High's senior class. The organizations stand out in high school competition, and in July, 1949, the Cannon High band represented North Carolina at the Lions International convention in New York City.
Kannapolis' key industry is the Cannon Mills Co., the world's largest manufacturer of household textiles-towels, bath mats, wash cloths, dish towels, sheets and pillowcases, also nylon stockings.
The town has been developed around the Cannon Mills.
Looking south of West Ave., this scene depicts new Colonlal-type buildings now being erected in the multi-milllon-dollar expansion program under way in Kannapolis.
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The First Baptist Church, located in the heart of the "Towel City," is one of many churches serving residents of Kannapolis.
Kannapolis, which derives its name from the Greek word meaning "loom city", was founded by the late James W. Cannon in 1905, when the great demand for Cannon towels prompted him to purchase a 600 acre tract of land in this section for the location of a new plant.
The village mushroomed.
Mr. Cannon, whose dream was a model textile city built around a booming industrial plant, contributed land and funds for construction of churches and schools.
He made, back in 1898, the first hand towel manufactured in the South, and by the time he died in 1921, Cannon towels had become na- tionally-famous.
After the founder's death, his son, Charles A. Cannon, became chief of the vast industry, and developed a textile trade far beyond his father's fondest hopes.
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