Hill's Wilmington (New Hanover County, N.C.) City Directory [1942], Part 1

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Publication date: 1942
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Including Audubon, Brookwood, Colonial Village, Country Club Pines, Edgewood, Forest Hills, Garden City, Glen Arden, Highland Park, Idlewild, Oleander, Summer Hills, Sun- set Park, Winter Park and Woodcrest

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; also a

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GENERAL INDEX

Page

Abbreviations

20 and 21

Alphabetical Directory

Apartment Buildings

831

Associations and Clubs-Commercial 832

Banks and Trust Companies 836

Buildings-Office and Public 843

844

Buyers' Guide . opposite 756

Cemeteries

845

Chamber of Commerce

732 845

Churches

732

Classified Business Directory 829 848

Clergymen

851

Consuls-Foreign

853

County Government

492

Fire Department 733 Golf Clubs and Courses 869

Halls

873

Homes and Asylums

874

Hospitals and Dispensaries

874

Labor Organizations

885

Libraries

888

Museums

893

Newspapers

894

Parks and Playgrounds

899

Police Department

733

Railroads

905

Schools-Public

912

Schools, Colleges and Academies

912

Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal

915

Socieities-Miscellaneous

916

Societies-Patriotic

916

State Government 503

Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders

929

Untied States Officials 678

United States Post Offce 679

80533

821324

Bus and Coach Lines-Motor

City Government

Clubs

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION

Page

Andrews Mortuary

left center lines and 35 64

Atlantic Paint & Varnish Works

Auto Parts & Accessory Co

Batson Motor Co . left center lines, 5 and

Baugh-McConnell Motors

Becker Coal & Builders Supply Co

Belk-Williams Co Inc

left top lines and

Berger's Sam Dept Store right center lines and

Broadfoot Iron Works

Brooklyn Pharmacy

Callihan Thos W

Cantwell Robt C

right side lines and

Cape Fear Blue Printers

right side lines and

Cape Fear Lumber Co

. left top lines and

Cape Fear Shipping Co

Cape Fear Taxi

Carney H Gaston

Carolina Building & Loan Assn.

Carolina Cut Stone Co

Carolina Millwork Co

Carolina Printing & Stamp Co

top edge and

Citizens Bldg & Loan Assn right top lines and

City Laundry Co Inc

. left top lines and

City Mill Works left side lines and

City Optical Co left top lines and

Coastal Cab

Coastal Service Station

Cooper T E & Co Inc.

Cooperative Bldg & Loan Assn.

.. left center lines

Craft Edw C

left side lines and

Cross Seed Co

right side lines and

Duffy Carolyn E

Echo Farm Dairy

Efird's Department Store. left top lines and

Electric Maintenance Co. . back cover and

Electric Repair & Service Co Inc

Farrar Transfer & Storage Warehouse, right hand lines and

Fergus Hardware Co. .right bottom lines and

Finkelstein's left side lines and

Firestone Home & Auto Supply Stores.

Foster-Hill Realty Co front cover and

Foy, Roe & Co left bottom lines and

Freeman Shoe Co

Gardner Transfer & Storage Co Inc.

Godwin's E W Sons . . back cover and

Goodrich Silvertown Stores. . left center lines and

Hanover Bldg & Loan Assn. right center lines and Hanover Iron Works. . front cover and

Harrell's Funeral Home ribbon book-mark and

Harriss Frank G

Hemby & Branyon Inc left side lines and

Hickman & Moore Cycle Go.

Hill John Bright.

left side lines and

15 52

8 X 25 25 53 27 72 43 15 53 70 70 46 19 56 55 61 20 51 55 57 71 6 23 3 66 46 24 27 30 30 Z 39 4 4 62 27 69 56 17 5 64 67 34 46 29

left side lines and

Applewhite Geo B Atlantic Finance Co left side lines and 52 57 4

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Honnet 1867 Co

left bottom lines and 50

Hotel Bame

Hotel Cape Fear right center lines and 40 41 Hotel Royal Palm 46 Howes Davis H Huggins Jewelers . back cover and 48 Hughes Bros right side lines and 9 Hummell Leslie R Hyman Supply Co front cover and 43 55 51 Ideal Laundry & Dry Cleaners. left side lines and Ideal Plumbing Co . left side lines and 59 42 Independent Ice Co left top lines and C Jackson & Bell Co left top lines and Jacobi David Supply Co right side lines and Jacobi Hardware Co Inc. 58 .right top lines and Jewel Box The 39 50 6 Johnson Esso Service Ltd Keith Milling Co 31 King Adolph L 39 56 King Marble & Granite Co. Kingoff's .right top lines and Lake View Poultry Farms 49 60 Lander Malcolm H .right side lines and 15 Latimer H G & Son. right side lines and Leeuwenburg Dairy 44 Lewis Furniture Co 24 37 64 Livingston F E & Co right bottom lines and 3 Lowrimore Chas S. right center lines and Lucas R C & Son left bottom lines and 59 9 MacMillan Buick Co. left center lines and MacRae Hugh & Co Inc. 63 16 Maffitt C D & Co Maffitt's Supply Co 16 2 McCabe J B & Co. . right side lines and 47 57 McGirt Wm A .right side lines and McGrath & Co left side lines and 41 McKee Bros Ice & Coal Co. McLaughlin's Funeral Home 36 Modern Laundry & Dry Cleaners Moore-Fonvielle Realty Co. front cover and 52 63 Moore Lucy B 31 Morris Plan Bank of Wilmington right top lines and Murchison J W Co 11 A New Way Mattress Co North Carolina Line Inc. .right side lines and 54 71 21 7 North-Smith Coal Co . back cover and Orrell's Service Station .right top lines and Owen Dorothy Pender Furniture Co . left side lines and 32 37 19 Peoples Bldg & Loan Assn. left bottom lines and Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co . backbone and 12 Perry Albert F left center lines and 44 8 Peterson-Barnes Motor Co left side lines and Pickard's left side lines and 70 Piver E S & Sons Plate Ice Co . . left side lines and 68 41 Pope's Jewelers . left side lines and 50 Quinn G A 23 9

Raney Chevrolet Co Inc.

Rehder Will

left bottom lines and

Rogers Luther T

32 23

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

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Rose Ice & Coal Co

. back cover, 22 and 42

Royal Bakery

right side. lines and 10

S & G Corp

Salvation Army

right bottom lines and

Scott Robt H

Sears, Roebuck & Co.

right side lines and

Security National Bank front cover and

Shackelford's

Shaw's John H Sons

Shell-Safti Service Co

Simon W A Co.

Smith Builders Supply Inc

Smith's Shoe Repair . right side lines and

Sneeden-York Co

right bottom lines and

Sneeden's Cycle Co right bottom lines and

Snipes & Taylor Service Station

Southern Roofing & Siding Co.

Southland Mfg Co

Springer Coal Co

Standard Paint & Hardware Co. . left bottom lines and

Stanley W E "Bill"

Stanley's Inc right bottom lines and

Sunshine Laundry left side lines and

Sutton-Council Furniture Co

Taubman's of Wilmington

left bottom lines and

Taylor Julien K

Taylor Walker . bottom edge and 45 3 Thermal Engineering Inc right center lines and B 5 Thorpe Coal & Building Supply Co Inc. Thrif-T-Stores Inc . right center lines and Tide Water Power Co right side lines, 28 and Todd Furniture Co 38 37 32 Verzaal John Walton A B Co. right bottom lines and Way W W & Son 64 59 Wells Harold W & Son . right side lines and 45 6 Wenberg Bros Wessell Conrad B . right top lines and Westbrook-Brown Motor Co. .right center lines and 29 10 Westbrook Lena F Mrs 33 White Ice Cream & Milk Co Inc . front cover, right top lines and 25 7

White's Amoco Service

Wilmington Army & Navy Store. left side lines and Wilmington Beverage Co Inc. right top lines and Wilmington Chamber of Commerce

Wilmington Furniture Co

Wilmington Iron Works

54 56

Wilmington Mill Works

Wilmington Printing Co

left center lines and 60

Wilmington Savings & Trust Co

. back cover, left top lines and 14

Wilmington Typewriter Exchange .... left side lines and Wilmington Well & Pump Co. . left bottom lines and

Wood T W & Sons .right bottom lines and

Woodbury Louie E Jr . left center lines and

47 71 Yellow Cabs right center lines and

Yopp Funeral Home front edge and 35

17 69 36 26

13 62 36 7 23 18 69 65 70 7 66 69 22 58 47 50 52 B 5

Wilder H F Real Estate Agency ... right center lines and Willetts Realty Co left center lines and 65 4 Y 20

Wilmington Finance Co

INTRODUCTION

HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1942 edition of the Wilmington City Directory, which also includes Audubon, Brookwood, Colonial Village, Country Club Pines, Edgewood, Forest Hills, Garden City, Glen Arden, Highland Park, Idlewild, Oleander, Summer Hills, Sunset Park, Winter Park and Woodcrest. A new feature, the desig- nation of homes and places of business having telephones, marks this edition.

Confidence in the growth of Wilmington's industry, pop- ulation and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Di- rectory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Wilmington to the world.

The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by render- ing the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organ- ization, 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 Wilmington Direc- tory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic informa- tion pertaining to the community.

Four Major Departments

The four major departments are arranged in the follow- ing order :-

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 21 to 754, 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 Wilmington and vicinity, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation.

THE BUYERS' GUIDE, preceding the Classified and separately paged from 1 to 72, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Wilmington and vicinity. The ad- vertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. 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 com- munity like Wilmington, the necessity of having this kind of informaiton immediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 829 to 925, on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alpha- betical 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 com- mercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers

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meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.

THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, covers pages 929 to 1056. In this section the named streets are arranged in alphabetical order, followed by the numbered streets in numerical 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 con- cerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. A feature of this section is the designation of tenant-owned homes. A new feature is the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.

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 port, 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 Wilm- ington and vicinity.

The Wilmington Directory Library

Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Wilming- ton City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.

The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recogni- tion by those progressive 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.

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WILMINGTON

THE MAJOR DEEP-WATER PORT OF NORTH CAROLINA (Courtesy Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce)

Statistical Review

Form of Government-City manager-council.

Population-1940 U. S. Census report, 33,407; 1941 esti- mate of Wilmington city officials, approximately 50,000 (increase result of defense projects).

Area-4.5 square miles.

Altitude-30 feet above sea level. 1

Climate-Mean annual temperature, 63 degrees F .; aver- age annual rainfall, 53 inches.

Parks-5, with total of 225 acres, valued at $425,000.

Assessed Valuation-$36,992,408.

Bonded Debt-$2,815,500. Bonds are retired at rate of $100,000 or more annually.

Financial Facts-1 national bank and 3 state banks and trust companies, with total deposits of $35,239,424.61 (Sept. 30, 1941), and total resources of 39,598,745.59 (Sept. 30, 1941). Clearings for year ended Sept. 30, 1941, $192,675,963.69.

Telephones in Service-7,640. Southern Bell Telephone Co. is installing additional quarters representing a total in- vestment of $925,000.

Churches-70, representing all denominations.

Building and Construction- Value of building permits for year ended Sept. 30, 1941 (private), $745,223. Estimated number new housing units in city and suburbs, 2,500. This figure includes approximately 1,300 units for defense workers built at a cost of $5,000,000 and not included in figure mentioned above. Also not included are 2 housing projects completed about 15 months ago at cost of approximately $2,100,000, comprising about 600 housing units. There is continuous volume of private building being carried on to accommodate new residents. During present year, plant of North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. has been built for Govern- ment at cost of $5,000,000. This plant will build 37 steel cargo ships valued at $60,000,000 and will employ 7,000 work- ers, with payroll estimated at from $600,000 to $1,000,000 per month. Wilmington is also headquarters for the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Co., which built in 1933 a $3,000,000 plant to extract bromine from ocean water. In the past 4 years, additions to this mammoth plant have been constructed at further cost of approximately $3,500,000.

Industry-Principal industries: Manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade and shipping. 110 establishments, em- ploying normally 14,000 men and 5,700 women, paying wages of about $14,000,000 annually, and having products valued at about $50,000,000 annually. Principal manufactured prod- ucts: Steel ships, fertilizers, bromine, creosoted products, lumber, sugar, tobacco products, petroleum products, con- crete products, cotton goods and molasses.

Trade Area-Retail area extends 75 miles inland, and contains population of approximately 250,000; wholesale area extends 150 miles inland, and contains population of 350,000.

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Newspapers-2 dailies (morning and evening); also 1 weekly for white people and 1 weekly for colored people.

Hotels-4, with total of 550 rooms.

Railroads-3: Atlantic Coast Line; Seaboard Air Line; Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern.

Amusements-7 theatres, with total seating capacity of 7,100 persons. 2 golf courses.

Hospitals-5, with total of 560 beds.

Education-10 public schools, including 2 high. Number of pupils in public schools, 10,314; in private, 450. Number of teachers in public schools, 298. Value of school property, public and private, approximately $3,000,000.

City Statistics-Total street mileage, 80, with about 60 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 75; sewers, 65. Daily aver-

Wilmington's port volume is steadily increasing, as is evidenced by this steamer laden with tobacco and bound for a foreign port.

age pumpage of water works, 3,500,000 gallons; value of plant, $1,250,000. Fire department has 66 men, with 4 stations and 8 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 58 men, with 1 station, 10 pieces of motor equipment and two-way · radio reception. Tidewater Power Co. furnishes up-to-date bus service throughout the city.

General Review

Wilmington is strategically situated on the Cape Fear River, blessed by nature with a variety of resources and kept up-to-date by the hand of man. It possesses trunk-line rail, highway and deep-water transportation, which give it low freight rates and permit quick freight movements in great volume.

In 1941 the city of Wilmington has been transformed from a staid city into one of the busiest and most important Governmental defense points in the entire Southern States. This change has been accompanied by an awakened civic spirit and an impetus to general business circles which has brought prosperity in overflowing measure to practically all retail channels.

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Camp Davis, at Holly Ridge, 29 miles northeast of Wilm- ington, was established by the U. S. Government in the spring of 1941, with formal opening in May. In the brief period which has elapsed, the Government has assembled 20,000 trainees and approximately 1,100 officers. Wilmington is the nearest city of any size to Camp Davis, which fact prac- tically makes the Government reservation a local enterprise.

This "Ecce Homo," a painting of Christ, was taken from a pirate ship which attacked the town of Brunswick, near the present site of Wilmington, in 1747. About 1750 the painting was given to St. James Episcopal Church in Wil- mington, by the Assembly. The work is estimated to be from 500 to 800 years old, and attracts the attention of all visitors.

A great percentage of the commissioned and non-commis- sioned officers make their homes in Wilmington or in the immediate suburbs. They have constituted not only a very desirable addition to the community life of th city, but, as well, a decidedly advantageous factor in increased bus- iness volume for the various mercantile establishments. There have been such favorable reactions as regards health and other conditions at Camp Davis, that well-authenticated

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reports are already current, of contemplated enlargement of the camp, with the addition of from six to ten thousand men.

An equally important and major factor in the present satisfactory expansion of Wilmington, coming at the same time as the establishment of Camp Davis, was the announce- ment early in 1941 of the establishment here of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. This corporation is an adjunct of the Newport News Shipbuilding Co., of Newport News, Va.,

Wilmington is the center of a rich agricultural territory, especially as regards early truck crops. A view of a typical lettuce farm is shown above.

and bids fair to be the natural outlet for that corporation in the building of commercial craft. Within six months from the announcement by the Government that a contract to build 37 steel ships of 10,000 tons capacity each, had been awarded at a total estimated cost of $60,000,000, from a forest wilderness immediately south of Wilmington, there emerged a developed shipbuilding plant with capacity for building nine ships at one time. The cost of installation of the ship-

Passenger liner leaving the port of Wilmington for a cruise to Bermuda. In the background is the U. S. Customs House and the Coast Guard Cutter Modoc.

yard was in excess of $5,000,000. Approximately 7,000 em- ployees will be given work and it is estimated that the payroll will range from $600,000 to $1,000,000 each month. Award of the contract carried with it the requirement that the entire number of 37 ships shall be completed within two years from date of installation of the plant. There is con- fident expectation that future additional contracts will keep the plant of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. busy for

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many years to come and that this enterprise will continue to be a back-log for Wilmington's continued prosperity long after the present emergency has ceased.

The two enterprises outlined above, as a matter of course, have brought with them many municipal changes. City of-

The municipal building of the City of Wilmington is more than eighty years "young," and attracts the attention of all visitors because of its graceful design and attractive proportions.

ficials estimate that the municipal population has increased from the figure of 33,407 shown by the official Census of 1940, to approximately fifty to sixty thousand in the fall of 1941, with additional thousands expected early in 1942 when peak production is reached at the plant of the shipbuilding

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The Babies' Hospital at Wrightsville Sound, eight miles east of Wilmington, is a unique and splendidly-managed institution. Here every summer are brought several hundred sick and ailing infants from every section of the South and are soon restored to healthful vigor.

company. Likewise, the county officials estimate that the population of the county has increased from the 1940 Census figure of 47,935 to approximately 80,000 in the latter part of 1941. To house all these new residents, it is estimated that 1941 has seen the addition of 3,000 or more new dwelling

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units. Of these, 1,300 or more have been provided by the U. S. Government at a cost of 5,000,000. The additional houses have been provided by private agencies, and there is a con- tinuing volume of building.

tracts thousands of visitors each season.

Orton Mansion, in Brunswick County, sixteen miles below Wilmington, was built by "King Roger" Moore in 1725. This

In excess of a million dollars is being invested in an extension of the school system, it being estimated that the scholastic term of 1941-42 will add approximately 5,000 students to the rolls. A similar sum is contemplated for

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Hill's Wilmington (New Hanover County, N.C.) City Directory [1942], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1942 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1070

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1942
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1070