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Kannapolis 101 S. Ridge Ave.
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HILL'S KANNAPOLIS (CABARRUS COUNTY, N. C.)
CITY DIRECTORY 1961
Including China Grove and Landis
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Including Rural Route Residents, a Directory of House- holders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory and much In- formation of a Miscellaneous Character; also the
YELLOW PAGES
With a Special ADVERTISING SECTION and a Complete CLASSIFIED LIST
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories (pub- lishers of the Kannapolis Directory since 1950), present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1961 edition of the Kannapolis City Directory, which also includes China Grove, Landis and Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Kannapolis' 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 Kannapolis to the world.
The enviable position occupies by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public throughout the country, 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 approval of every user, and that the Kannapolis 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 YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major department of the Di- rectory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional concerns of the city and vicinity, arranged in alpha- betical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the city and vicinity. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible inthe catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a progressive community like Kannapolis, 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, industrial 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, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Kannapolis, China Grove and Landis, 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 designation of tenant- owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fourth major department, showing a section for Kannapolis followed by a sepa- rate section for China Grove and Landis.
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
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
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Aetna Loan & Finance Co
left side lines and
64
Antique Shop The
4
Atomic Oil Co front cover, right top and left bottom lines and 44
Austin Insurance Agency right top lines and 58
B & G Esso Service . left side lines and
12
Ballard's Appliance & Television Service . left side lines and
5
Barber-Scotia College left side lines and
24
Barefoot Oil Co
left side lines and 47
Barnhardt's Sheet Metal, Heating & Air Conditioning
left side lines and 29
Belk's Department Store
left top lines and 31
Bob & Chick
top stencil, left bottom lines, 45 and 66
Brothers Tire Sales
right bottom lines, 12 and
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Cabarrus Bank & Trust Co
backbone and
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Cabarrus Creamery Co Inc
right side lines and
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Cabarrus Ice & Fuel Co .
right top lines
Carpenter's Tire Service
. left side lines and
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Childress Bros Home Furnishings
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China Grove Ice & Fuel Co
left bottom lines, 23 and
43
China Mart The
left top lines and 5
City Tin Shop
left side lines and 3
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Coin-Co
right side lines and
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Colonial Frozen Foods of Kannapolis Inc
right top lines and
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Concord-Kannapolis Broadcasting Co .
right side lines and 67
Concord-Kannapolis Savings & Loan Assn
back cover, right top lines and
73
Critz-Taylor Plumbing & Heating Contractors
66
right side lines and
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Curran's Florist Inc .
right bottom lines and
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Daily Independent The
right side lines and
Dove Bill Motor Co
left side lines and
Duke Power Co .
36
Durham B Elwood Real Estate .
left top lines and Ever-Glo Sign Co .
right bottom lines and
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Firestone Home & Auto Supplies
front cover,
. right top lines, Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section, 7 and Fleming Floor Covering Co . left top lines and 39
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Flower Shop The .
42
Freeze S Worth Insurance Agency Inc left side lines and
Gem Automatic Gas Co Inc .
left side lines and
Gregory H J Motor Co .
left bottom lines and
Gulledge Building Supply
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Hill's Clothing Store left side lines and
22
Home Modernizing Service right side lines, 72 and 75
Home Savings & Loan Association. . right side lines and
Home Selling Service & Real Estate Broker
. right side lines and
Honeycutt Funeral Home Inc .
left bottom lines and
Hudson Gulf Service left bottom lines and
right bottom lines and
77 25
Kannapolis Construction Co front cover and
Kannapolis Exterminating Co right side lines and
37
Kannapolis Ice & Fuel Co Inc right bottom lines and 49
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16 69 50 10
left side lines and Hill Directory Co Inc
54 8 20
. . . right top lines, tabbed Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section, 40 and Foil's Inc
left bottom lines and 74 61
Eastwood Insurance & Realty Co .
Evans College of Commerce
bottom stencil, tabbed Insert at Real Estate in Classified Section, 68 and 70 71 21
66 78 6
Denny's Tire Service
49
Cabarrus Motor Supply
left side lines and 71
Carter Cardell Inc .
Central Distributing Co tabbed Insert at Phones Numerically and
46
Clear Springs Farms
right side lines and
right side lines and Cruse Zeb P Transfer
Jackson Park Cab
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Kannapolis Laundry
Kannapolis Merchants Association Inc
right side lines and
Kannapolis Real Estate Agency
left top lines and
Ketner's Floor Covering Co
Kluttz Lee Piano Co
Lady's Funeral Home front cover, right side lines, 3 and
Lawing L H Cabinet Shop & General Building left side lines and
Lee R B General Insurance tabbed Insert at Street Guide and
Lee's Tin Shop
right top lines and
Leonard W H & Sons Inc
left side lines and
Linoleum Shop The
right side lines and
Lyles M S & Co .
right side lines and
Main Texaco Service
right side lines and
Martin Drug Co .
left top lines and
Martin's Iron & Metal Co
right bottom lines and
Massey Septic Tank Co Inc
right side lines and
Mills Florist
right side lines and
Moon's Florist
right side lines and
Motor-Mower Service
left side lines and
Mutual Oil Co Inc
. right side lines and
48 75
Odell Insurance Agency Inc
. left top lines and
61 76 36
Phillips Electric Service
Piedmont Chevrolet
Raper Brothers
left bottom lines and
Ritchie Auto Parts
left side lines, 14 and
Roberts Ray R & Son
front cover, left top lines and
Sarah Jane's Fabric Shop
right side lines and
Scottish Bank The .
front cover, right top lines and
Security Bank & Trust Co
front cover, right top lines and Service Oil Co .
Slim's Cleaners
left side lines and
Sloop Jacob H H Grading & Hauling Contractor
front cover and
Smith Air Conditioning Inc
left top lines, 2 and
Smith F L Drug Co Inc
right bottom lines and
Spencer Auto Parts Co
left side lines and
Stallings Ed Pontiac & Buick Inc
right side lines and
Stone E B Finance Co Inc.
right bottom lines and
Taylor's Hatchery & Garden Supply
right bottom lines and
Termite & Pest Control
right side lines and
Torrence Jim Hair Fashions
left side lines and
Twin City Motel
right side lines and
W E G O Concord-Kannapolis Broadcasting Co right side lines and
Watkins Building Materials Co right bottom lines and
White Spot Grill ..
left side lines and 72
Whitley W H & Sons Inc
tabbed Insert at Ambulance Service
in Classified Business Section, 4 and 52
Whitmire-Falls Inc
right bottom lines and
62
Widenhouse C A Concrete Co
. left bottom lines and
27
Widenhouse Motors
back cover, left side lines and 9
Willeford's Jewelers
63
Winecoff L B & Son
left bottom lines and
26
Yellow Dome Taxi
77
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34 74 75
Miller Lumber Co
Mooresville Ice Cream Co Inc
left side lines and 64 42 right top cards and 41 57 55
North Ridge Amoco Service
right side lines and
Orange Gulf Service .
· right bottom lines and .
right side lines and 12 22
Sechler Service Station
U-Needa Cleaners left top lines and 35 67 19
78 19 65
21 60 37 17 B 18 48 35 28 55 34 11 12 13 53
Lewis Drug Co . left top lines and
KANNAPOLIS
"THE TOWEL CITY"
(Courtesy Kannapolis Merchants Association, Inc.)
DU RY BROS.
JEWEL SHOP
Diand
Main Street where the first stores in Kannapolis were constructed and today includes some of the finest shops in N. C.
Statistical Review
Population-The 1960 U. S. Preliminary Census Report lists a population of 33,986.
Size-Kannapolis occupies an area of approximately 25 square miles. Climate-Annual rainfall 48"-Average temperature 600 (Low 10°; High 1000)
Government-It is one of the world's largest un-incorporated cities and is policed by County Deputies. Two police stations-one in Cabarrus County with one chief and 25 officers and one in Rowan County with one chief and 8 officers. An excellent volunteer Fire Department-completely equipped. Street names and numbers are controlled by a "Street Planning Board."
Utilities-Electric Power and Natural Gas are available in unlimited quan- tities. A modern dial telephone exchange serves 9,215 telephones in Kannapolis, in addition free access to 2,718 telephones in China Grove and Landis is avail- able. A huge artificial lake and a modern filter plant provides anadequate supply of pure water.
Education-10 schools-200 teachers (9 white-4,837 pupils; 1 Negro-915 pupils). Value of building, $3,287,372.
Religion-Approximately 22 denominations with 80 congregations. Largest Y.M.C.A. membership in world under one roof-12,440 members.
Housing-There are approximately 10,000 householders with about 75 % privately owned.
Industry-Products: towels, sheets, and other household textiles and is Home Office of Cannon Mills Company. Other employers include retail and service establishments. Total employment is approximately 16,000.
Business-Approximately 500 firms of all types. N. C. Sales and Use Taxes amounted to $881,492.97-1959. Retail Sales amounted to approximately $46,- 000,000. $1,355.00 per capita.
Motor Vehicles-License plates sold-18,467 (15,362 passenger cars) 1959. Financial-1. Cabarrus Bank & Trust Co., December 31, 1959 (all branches) Resources and liabilities, $28,396,703.71.
2. Security Bank & Trust Co., December 31, 1959 (all branches) Resources and liabilities, $17,313,090.32.
3. The Scottish Bank, December 31, 1959 (all branches) Resources and liabilities, $38,345,943.71.
Transportation-Main line Southern Railway, U. S. Highway 29, Carolina Coach, and National Trailways.
Postal Receipts-1959-$209,775.41 gross.
Libraries-12,648 volumes Y.M.C.A .; 41,557 volumes-white schools, 7,389 volumes-Negro schools.
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Civic and Fraternal-Most civic and fraternal groups are in city.
Communication-Newspapers 1, daily and Sunday. Radio Stations 1, 1,000 watts.
Hospitals-Cabarrus Memorial-5 miles south-serves area-329 beds, 60 doctors, 510 others on staff. (4th from top in annual admissions in N. C. for general type hospital).
General Review
Kannapolis-translated from the Greek meaning "Loom City"-is situated in the heart of the industrial Piedmont Section of North Carolina in the Southern part of Rowan County and the Northern part of Cabarrus County-803 feet above sea level.
The late Mr. J. W. Cannon, founder of the Cannon Mills Co., purchased 600 acres for the Kannapolis site in 1905, began the construction of houses in 1907. Production at Plant No. 1 was begun during 1908.
Kannapolis has 340 retail firms. Effective purchasing power of Cabarrus County compares favorably with state and national averages.
Trinity Methodist Church, built at a cost of approximately half-million dollars in 1954-1955. It is one of the many churches serving residents of Kannapolis.
W. J. Bullock Physical Education Building. This is one of the finest High School Gymnasium buildings in North Carolina.
The people here are church-goers. They make up 80 congregations.
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, Business Men's Club, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Lions International, Pilot Club, Optomist, Credit Women's Breakfast Club, American Legion and Veterans of
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Cannon Memorial Y. M.C.A. center of social and religious life in Kannapolis, N. C., named in memory of the late James Wm. Cannon, founder of Cannon Mills.
Foreign Wars and their auxiliaries, War Dads, War Mothers, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Independent Student Aid Association, Red Cross, Moose Lodge 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 1957 campaign, the rolls listed the names of 12,566 men, women, boys and girls.
It operates in a Colonial-style structure that cost $500,000 in the years be- fore 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.
A. L. Brown High School. This is the Senior High School with approximately 800 boys and girls enrolled which includes complete vocational training. (Approximately 5,500 students are enrolled in all the city schools).
FUNERAL HOME WHITLEY'S
REAL ESTATE B. ELWOOD DURHAM
THE FLOWER SHOP
R. B. LEE GENERAL INSURANCE
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Kannapolis' public schools bow to none in North Carolina. Enrollment is a record 5,600 boys and girls.
A. L. Brown Senior High School 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.
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