Hill's Kannapolis (Cabarrus County, N.C.) City Directory [1953], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1953
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TIRES - TUBES - BATTERIES Radios Bicycles Television


138 WEST AVE. PHONE 6641 ~ 4191


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SALES


Tels. Sales 8176


CHEVROLET


BEASLEY-CROSS CHEVROLET CO.


136 OAK


Night Wrecker Service 2-8067


CHEVROLET


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Maxwell Brothers


Complete Furnishings


115-17 N. Main St.


Tel. 2268


Service Dept. 4171


CABARRUS BANK and TRUST COMPANY LET US HELP YOU WITH YOUR MONEY MATTERS 201 WEST AVE.


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HILL'S KANNAPOLIS (CABARRUS COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY


1953


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, also a


BUYERS' GUIDE


and a Complete


Classified Business Directory FOR CONTENTS SEE INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX ON PAGE III


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Copyright, 1953, by the Hill Directory Co., Inc.


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PUBLISHERS NOTE


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 cor- rectness 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 CO., Inc., Publishers


INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1953 edition of the Kannapolis City Directory, which also includes China Grove and Landis.


Confidence in the growth of Kannapolis' industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be main- tained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Kannapolis to the world.


The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estima- tion of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the ap- proval of every user, and that the Kannapolis Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.


Five Major Departments (Each department beginning with Page 1)


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


I. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business 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 resident of Kannapolis and vicinity, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation.


II. THE BUYERS' GUIDE, the second major department, printed on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Kannapolis and vicinity. The adver- tisements, are indexed under headings descriptive of the business rep- resented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive community like Kannapolis, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. General apprecia- tion of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.


III. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is the third major de- partment, printed on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appro- priate 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 and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other mediun ..


IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, is the fourth major department. In this section the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order, fol- lowed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the resi- dences 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


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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX


at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of tele- phone numbers.


V. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fifth major department.


Community Publicity


The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the com- munity, 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 public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Kannapolis and vicinity. There are more than 600 of these Directory Libraries, installed and maintained in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada through the courtesy of members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose super - vision the system is operated and of which the Hill Directory Co. is a member.


The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with the assur- ance that it will bring a commensurate return.


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers.


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION. THE YELLOW PAGES


Page


A & J Concrete Co. . . left center lines and 45


Aetna Loan & Finance Co.


right center lines and 132


Atomic Oil Co . . right top lines and


81


Austin's Insurance Agency.


right side lines and


121


Auto Finance Co . . left top lines and


133


Auto Sales Co.


21 170


B & B Shoe Shop


left side lines and


34


Barnhardt Bruce T.


.left center lines and


69


Barr Sand & Stone Yard .


left side lines and


165


Barringer's Esso Service Center .


right bottom lines and


101 5


Beaver Lumber & Supply Co. left side lines and


36


Belk's Department Store . left top lines and Bell Cafe .


54 164 57 142


Big Tree Chinchilla Ranch


Bob & Chick 82 and


106


Brook's Novelty & Gift Shop


right center lines and


104 109 168 175 115


C & D Supply Co . . left side lines and 35 Cabarrus Bank & Trust Co. front cover, right top lines and 28 52


Cabarrus Creamery Co Inc . right side lines and


Cabarrus Ice & Fuel Co . left top lines and


44 19


Caldwell Furniture Shoppe


Cannon's Service Station . left bottom lines and


Can-Tex Service Station


Center Motor Court. right bottom lines and


156


Centerview Service Station


100


Centerview Sundries .


171


Centerview Taxi .


172


Central Distributing Co . Tabbed Insert at Numerical Telephone Section


74


Central Service Station


19


Childress Bros Home Furnishing Co left bottom lines and


91


China Grove Furniture Co


97


China Grove Hardware Co left bottom lines and 110


China Grove Ice & Fuel Co . 82 and


117


China Grove Plumbing & Heating Co .


149


Chuck's Cleaners


65


City Tin Shop


114


Colonial Finance Co


134


Colonial Frozen Foods of Kannapolis Inc


left bottom lines and


81


Concord Perpetual Building & Loan Assn


. back cover, right top lines and 32


Corriher's Servicenter right side lines and 103


Cox Motor Co Inc. . . . front lip margin, right top lines, A and Critz-Taylor Plumbing & Heating Contractors .


7


right side lines and


150


Bost Service & Grocery


Brown-Dexter Co Inc


Brown-Massey Co.


Brown-Smoot Typewriter Co


Brumley-Funderburk Furniture Co


right side lines, 87 and


Cabarrus Motor Supply . right center lines and


96 6 101 140


Centerview Radio & Television Service


Central Rewinding Co .


Chicken Boxette . right center lines and 163


B & W Supply Co.


Beasley-Cross Chevrolet Co. . front cover, right side lines and


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page


D & B Grocery


D & R Furniture House


96


Daily Independent The .


right top lines and 141 X


Davis Furniture Co Inc


88


Dellinger Auto Sales


21


Dixie Cleaners


Dove Bill Motor Co back lip margin, left side lines and


Duke Power Co.


Durham B Elwood Real Estate . . . top stencil, left top lines and


Dwiggins J V Jewelers left bottom lines and 126


Easy Loan & Finance Co. left bottom lines and 134


Economy Finance Co Inc . left top lines and


Efird R M Building Supply Co. . back cover, left bottom lines and


137 36 158


Efird R M Contractor . . . back cover, left bottom lines, 47 and Efird's Department Store. . back cover, right bottom lines and 55 Evans College of Commerce right bottom lines and 38 27


Firestone Home & Auto Supplies .


Flower Shop The front cover, right top lines and


right center lines, Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and Foil's Inc .


128


Friendly Finance Co


Gables Inc


right side lines.and


Gaddy Bros


front cover, right top lines and


Gem Automatic Gas Co Inc


left side lines and


Glass Shop The .


left center lines and


Goodman & Fite Refrigeration


left bottom lines and


Graham Earl Studios .


left top lines and


Grant Motor Co. backbone, left side lines, 8 and


Green's Body Shop


right bottom lines and


Haney & Holbrook Inc.


Hardiman's Inc


Hardin Shell Service


left bottom lines and


Hill's Clothing Store


. left side lines and


41 84


Hinson Foy Radio Service


.right center lines and


155 157


Holbrook's Radio & Television Service . . right bottom lines and Home Building & Loan Association


33 38


Horton Rosie Bulldozer Service


Howard Electric Company


70


Ideal Electric Company .


right center lines and


71


Ideal Motor Co


left center lines and


22


Independent Coal Co.


right side lines, 44 and


84 12 107 158


Jackson Park Radio & T V Service.


left bottom lines and


Jewel Shoppe Inc The


. left top lines and


123


Joe's Sandwich Shop


left bottom lines and


Johnston's Furniture Co .


right side lines and


Kakie's Cities Service Center


Kannapolis Construction Co.


left center lines and


Kannapolis Florist. left top lines and


79


Kannapolis Furniture Co right center lines and 93


Kannapolis Ice & Fuel Co.


. bottom stencil, left center lines, 43 and


83


Kannapolis Laundry


131


50


Kannapolis Merchants Association Inc left side lines and Kannapolis Plumbing & Electric Co.


147


135 40 151 99 4 162 37 144 9 10 11 138 97 22


Goodman Lumber Co Inc.


Gregory H J Motor Co.


Hill's Funeral Home


Home Heating Co The . tabbed insert at Streets


Jackson A P Motor Co


left bottom lines and


Jackson Park Grocery .


166 92 23 48 59


Kannapolis Drug Co.


107


Dalrymple Lumber Co


66 Z 68 159


80


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


VII


Page


Kannapolis Real Estate Agency


160


Kannapolis Store Company . right center lines and 111


Kannapolis Taxi Cab .


174


Keene John R General Contractor


46


Keever's Studio


145


Kluttz Lee Piano Co.


146


Kluttz School of Dancing . left center lines and


53


Knight & Deal Upholstery


23


Lady's Funeral Home. front cover, right side lines and


85


Landis Curb Market .


50


Landis Plumbing Co Inc.


left side lines, B and


117


Lee's Tin Shop


left side lines and


169


Leonard W H Jr Jewelers


left top lines and


124


Linoleum Shop The .


76


Loflin's of China Grove


left side lines and


122


Lois' School of Dance .


left side lines and


Y


Lowe's Center Shell Service


Lowery Furniture Co . left bottom lines and


Lowrance Implement Co Inc .


right side lines and


145


Magneto & Electric Service


. left center lines and


13


Margaret's Grocery


108


Martin Drug Co.


59


Martin's Iron & Metal Co


129


Maxwell Brothers Furniture Co


89


Merchants & Farmers Bank


30


Midway Motors


14


Midway Taxicabs


right side lines and 173


171


Mills Florist. left center lines and


78


Miss Deb's .


42


Modern Finance Corp


right side lines and


135 20


Mull Bill Furniture & Appliance Co


right bottom lines and 116


Mullinax Insurance Agency Inc .


front cover, left center lines and


118


Murray's . left side lines and


C


Myers Bootery right bottom lines and


170


Nu-Brite Cleaners .


60


OK Floor Covering Co. right side lines and


77 119


Odell W C Insurance Agency


80


P X Grocery & Grill . right bottom lines, 106 and


164


Parker-Davis Tire Co . left top lines and 15


148


Penney J C Co Inc


left center lines and


56


Peoples Electric Co .


right side lines and


167 108


Petrea M N & Sons .


right side lines and


61


Pig N' Pit Bar-B-Cue


31


Plaza Jewelry Co .


127


Price Furniture Co .


98


Radio Station W G T L


back cover, right side lines and


2


Ramsey's Produce . left bottom lines and Raper Bros .


154


153


136


112


Reliable Finance Co right side lines and Ritchie Hardware Co Inc .. right top lines, left bottom lines and Ritchie J Nestor. .


121


24 98 74


Ludwig's Studio


McManus Curtis F. front cover, right top lines and


143


Motor Parts Service Co.


Parker's A B Plumbing Shop .


Parker's Motel .


left side lines and 139


67


Perkins S D Septic Tank Contractor


Phillips Electric Service


72


Piedmont Cleaners .


left top lines and Outen Florist


Miller Archie Sign Service .


148


Lee R B General Insurance


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page


Roberts Ray R.


. right bottom lines and 120


Rogers Upholstery


176


Ross Laundry Inc . right center lines and 130


Rowan County Building & Loan Association The .


33


Rowan Dairy Inc. . tabbed insert at name in Alphabetical Section Russell Lewis E .


49


Russell's Gulf Service .


25


Salisbury Lumber & Supply Co


Scottish Bank The .


Sealtest Dairy Products


Sechler Service Station


Security Bank & Trust Co.


right top lines and


Service Oil Co


25 and


29 83 161 105


Sloop E A & Co back cover, right center lines and 58


Sprott-Elliott Furniture Co


. right top lines and 95


Sunshine Cleaners


66 and


Taylor's Hatchery


right bottom lines, 75 and


113


Thompson & Nance Garage


26


Towel City Furniture Co.


. right side lines and


26 84 145


Tysinger Hal Studio


U-Needa Cleaners . front cover, left bottom lines and


63


Watkins Building Materials Co


left side lines and


102


Wensil L R Co right center lines and


152


Western Auto Associate Store


back cover, right center lines and


16


White Hill Electric Co.


back cover, right bottom lines and


73


White J Henry


49


White Top Cabs


174


Whitley W H & Sons Inc


front stencil, left


86


Widenhouse Service Inc left center lines and


125


Widenhouse Tire & Recap Store


. right center lines and 17 127


Williams Printing Co.


right side lines, 142 and


154


Wrenn's Cleaners


64


Wyke & Gulledge Cabinet Shop


39


Yoos H R Motor Co Inc. back cover, right side lines and 18


.


side lines, tabbed insert at name in Alphabetical Section, 3 and Whitmire-Falls Inc


right bottom lines and 99


Willeford's Jewelers


right top lines and 90 175


Towel City Theatres Inc.


Towel City Welding & Radiator Works . right side lines, 44 and


Triece's Independent Coal Co.


left center lines and 62 65 131


Sunshine Laundry & Cleaners


30 51 102


Sills N B-Real Estate right center lines and


Smith F L Drug Co Inc .


Rustin Furniture Co The . left center lines and 94 138


Star Dry Cleaners .


37


Weant's Texaco Service


KANNAPOLIS


"THE TOWEL CITY"


(Courtesy City Editor, Daily Independent)


Statistical Review


Population-28, 443 (1950 U. S. Census).


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 $26, - 298, 784 (Dec. 31, 1952), and resources of $29, 218, 112 (Dec. 31, 1952). Security Bank & Trust Co., with deposits of $8, 768, 739 (Dec. 31, 1952), and resources of $9, 536, 490 (Dec. 31, 1952).


Postal Receipts-$155, 000 (1950).


Churches-50, representing 20 denominations.


Industry-Cotton textile manufacturing. Principal manufactured prod- ucts: 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 mov- ing-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 4, 200. 1 golf course near city.


Hospitals-Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, between Kannapolis and Con- cord, 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.


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 prin- cipal business district, while 29-A is the 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.


The Post Office Department estimates the present population to be 35, 000, while the 1950 U. S. Census figure was 28, 448.


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 averages.


The people here are church-goers. They make up more than 50 con- gregations.


And they have a keen civic spirit, working through such organizations as the Masons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, Red Men, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Junior Order United American Mechanics, Busi- ness 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 Associa- tion, Red Cross and dozens of fellowship clubs for all ages.


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Main Street, where the first store in Kannapolis was constructed, in- cludes some of the finest shops in the state.


Center of social and religious life in Kannapolis is the handsome and spacious Cannon Memorial Y. M. C. A.


LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF MOUSE LATES


This large neon sign overlooking the Cannon Mills lake portrays the famous trademark of Cannon products.


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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 in a 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.


Kannapolis' public schools bow to none in North Carolina. Enrollment is a record 5, 364 boys and girls.


Looking south of West Ave., this scene depicts new Colonial-type build- ings now being erected in the multi-million-dollar expansion program under way in Kannapolis.


The First Baptist Church, located in the heart of the "Towel City, " is one of many churches serving residents of Kannapolis.


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Cannon High is known widely for its diversified courses, offering: The prescribed academic studies, home economics, vocational courses, art, dramatics, music, debating, journalism, physical education 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.


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 nationally- 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.


The Cannon organization now employs 21,000 men and women. Thou- sands of these workers have service records extending from 15 to more than 60 years. Those who have been with the company 25 years or longer are entertained at loyalty banquets each autumn.


Approximately 1,300 boys and girls of Kannapolis are enrolled at the J. W. Cannon High School, which includes complete vocational training.


Charles A. Cannon, like his father, had dreams of a model manufac- turing town-a beautiful town to which North Carolinians could point with pride.


In 1937, the fiftieth anniversary of the company, he launched a gi- gantic, multi-million-dollar construction and remodeling program. This expansion, interrupted by World War II, is still in progress.


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Mr. Cannon was impressed with the manner in which historic Williams- burg, Va., had been rebuilt, and he engaged the C. E. Swanson Associates, Chicago architects, to survey Kannapolis' business district and draw plans to be used in the long-range construction program.


A result has been a transformation of the downtown district into Colonial-type architecture.


Little Mt. Vernon in the City Park is a memorial to the more than 4, 000 local men and women who served in the Armed Forces during World War II.


Mary Ella Hall, named in honor of the wife of the "Towel City" founder, is one of the buildings housing employees of Cannon Mills.


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THE CITY DIRECTORY


represents the City and its institutions in every corner of these United States


" The


DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER >>SELLER


ARE YOU PROPERLY REPRESENTED IN IT?


The Classified portion catalogues the professions and goods handled here


ARE YOU LISTED UNDER YOUR PROPER HEADING SO THE PROSPECTIVE BUYER CAN FIND YOU?


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