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GENERAL INDEX
Page
Abbreviations
20
Airports
718
Alphabetical List of Names
21
Apartment Buildings 718
· Associations and Clubs-Commercial 719
Banks and Trust Companies 722
Buildings-Office and Public 725
Bus and Coach Lines-Motor 725
Buyers' Guide
opp 684
Cemeteries
726
Churches
City Government
726 504 717
Classified Business Directory
Clergymen
728
Clubs
730
County Government
163 504
Fire Department
Halls
741
Homes and Asylums
741
Hospitals and Dispensaries
742 748
Legal Blue Book
.opp
748 750
Museums
753
Newspapers
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Numerical Telephone Directory
771
Parks and Playgrounds
756
Police Department
505
Post Office
466
Railroads
759
Schools-Public
762
Schools, Colleges and Academies 763
Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal 764
Societies-Miscellaneous 765
State Government 342
Street and Avenue Guide
517
United States Officials
465
Labor Organizations
Libraries
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
Page
Anchor Co Inc
.left top lines
Auto Repair & Sales Co 4
B & O Furniture Co . . .right side lines
Beck Sam E Inc. . . left- bottom lines and 3
Bennett J Edgar "Old Eck". . left side lines
Better Home Furniture Co. . left side lines Binder's Wave Studio 7
Blue Bird Cab Co Inc. 28
Blum Frank L & Co
11
Bocock-Stroud Co Inc
28
Bolling J R Co Inc
21
Bonitz Insulation Co ... left. top lines and 17
Bowen Jesse G & Co
22
Boyles Lumber Co
11
Brown John M
.back cover
Brown-Ruffin Co Inc
. opposite inside front cover
Bullock Clothing Co
10
Byerly W J Inc
18
Camel City Laundry
19
Camel City Realty Co
25
Carolina Taxi Service
28
Carroll Coal Co
right bottom lines
Central Cadillac-LaSalle Co
right side lines
Clinard Electric Co
.right top lines
Clodfelter H W Roofing & Sheet Metal Works ribbon bookmark and
27
Cody Realty & Mortgage Co.
.left top lines
Colonial Furniture Shops Inc. Y
Correct Time & City Hostess Service.
left bottom lines and 2
Craige & Craige
. Legal Blue Book
Crews Nat S.
Legal Blue Book
Crystal Ice & Coal Co 10
Davis & Cody Inc.
opposite inside front cover
Disher C C Motors Inc
.right side lines and
Dixie Sign Co
28
4
Dixie Welding Works 29
Dize Awning & Tent Co ... back cover and 6
Downtown Garage.
.left top lines and
4
Duke Power Co
Z
Dunnagan & Rideout ..
.right side lines
Elberson C E & Co
backbone and
2
Electric Repair & Construction Co and J A Johnson Electric Co. 20
Ernst & Ernst.
. back cover and
2
Farmers National Co Inc. . front cover and 18 Firestone Auto Supply & Service Stores .. 4
First Federal Savings & Loan Assn left side lines and 9
Flowers Bros
23
Fogle Bros Co
.right bottom lines
Forsyth Coal Co
.right top lines and 10
Gay Jas E jr.
Legal Blue Book
General Tire & Battery Service
5
Gibson Glenn
12
Goodrich Silvertown Stores 5 Hamby Plumbing & Heating. 23
Hanes P H Knitting Co Inc.
29
Haverty Furniture Co. . left top lines and 14
Hege A L Radio Co
24
Highfill H J & H M Insurance Agency
19
Hinkle's Book Store
21
Page
Home Real Estate Loan & Insurance Co
Inc
. front cover and 25
Hood System Industrial Bank The ..
right top lines
Horton Phin jr
.Legal Blue Book
Hospital Care Assn Inc.
.left side lines
Hotel Robt E Lee ..
16
Huntley Hill-Stockton Co. 14
Hutchins & Parker.
Legal Blue Book
Hutchison-Allgood Printing Co
right bottom lines
Ideal Dry Goods Co Inc ... right side lines
James Realty Co
26
Johnson T E & Sons ...
front cover and 26
Kathryn's Beauty Salon
7
Kesler Construction Co
12
Kester Machinery Co
Y
Lee Robt E Health Centre
29
Lee Robt E Hotel
16
Lengs Turkish Bath and Health Centre
.right bottom lines and 29
Low-Smithdeal Paint Co.
right bottom lines and 22
Lybrook Wm R.
. Legal Blue Book
Mack's U-Drive It Co
3
Manly, Hendren & Womble
Legal Blue Book
Marshall Service Station
5
Medearis Stamp & Printing Co.
.right bottom lines and 23
Miller Printing Co
24
Modern Chevrolet Co Inc
5
Montaldo's Inc
19
Morris-Early & Co Inc.
Z
Nash A V & Sons Co
26
Newton Bros
26
Perryman Bros Lumber Co
20
Petree E H Co Inc
13
23
Pfaff John E Plumbing & Heating Co.
Pfaff's Inc
15
Phoenix Co The.
.right top lines
Phoenix Mutual Life Ins Co of Hartford
Conn
.back cover
Piedmont Federal Savings & Loan Assn .front cover and 9
Piedmont Quarries Co .. . left top lines and 24 Piedmont Sheet Metal Co .. right top lines Pike Pump Co. .right side lines Pilot Insurance Agency .... top stencil and 17 Pine Hall Brick & Pipe Co Inc .. left top lines and 7
Poindexter Realty Co.
.left bottom lines
Pollard Wm & Co.
.right side lines
Pritchett Jack Tire Co.
6
Quality Oil Co
3
Ratcliff, Hudson & Ferrell.
Legal Blue Book
Rawley & Apperson Inc.
21
Realty Bond Co The.
27
Realty Bond Supply Co .... back cover and
8
Rhue Joseph R.
. Legal Blue Book
Rock Wool Insulation Co.
17
Rominger Furniture Co .... back cover and 15
Royal Cake Co
7
Sartin Dry Cleaning Co.
front cover
and 13
Sears, Roebuck & Co
12
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Security Bond & Mortgage Co Inc.
.left top lines Service Coal Co Inc. 11 Shepherd's 15
Shore Bros Co Inc .. .left bottom lines Shore Real Estate Co. .right top lines Smith-Phillips Lumber Co right bottom lines Smithdeal Realty & Insurance Co Inc ..
front cover and 27 Soul A F Motor Co. . left bottom lines and 6 Southern Asphalt Roofing Co. left side lines Southern Furniture Co Inc. left side lines and 15
· Spainhour Armenius C ... right side lines Spaugh Realty & Insurance right top lines
Standard Building & Loan Assn ... .back cover and 9
Steifel Mattress Co.
.right top lines
Stockton Norman Inc ..
10
Supreme Oil Co 3
Thomas Music Co
21
Tuttle W H Electric Co.
Twin City Motor Co.
left bottom lines and
13
6
Page 2 Vermilya Herbert M Vick Paint Co. front cover and 22 Vogler Frank & Sons Inc .. . bottom stencil and 14
Vogler W T & Son.
front cover and 19
WAIR Broadcasting Station
24
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co-Ins Dept .. back cover and 18
Wachovia Oil Co.
.right side lines
Walker-Willard Hardware Co.
16
Webster
z Little
. Legal Blue Book
West End Tin Shop. ... right bottom lines Wilkes Henry L .left bottom lines Wilkinson W A & Son. . inside front cover Williams C R Radio Co .. back cover and 25 Williams & Whaling Inc. 25
Winston Printing Co. . Inside front cover Winston-Salem Building & Loan Assn .. right side lines and 9
Winston-Salem Hardware Co.
opposite title page
Winston-Salem Teachers College.
.right side lines and 11
Winston Steam Laundry Inc ..
front stencil and 20
Zinzendorf Laundry Co
Vaughn & Graham ..
. Legal Blue Book
.left side lines and 20
INTRODUCTION
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1938 edition of the Winston-Salem City Directory.
Confidence in the continued growth of Winston-Salem'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 Winston-Salem 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 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 Winston-Salem Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
Population
The population of Winston-Salem is estimated at 95,706, based on the number of personal names in the Alphabetical section of the Directory, with due allowance for those under Directory age. Territory immediately adjacent, which is part of the city, as far as business and social life are concerned, is included in the Directory, and, likewise, in the population estimate.
Five Major Departments
The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 21 to 516, 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 Winston-Salem, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper. covers pages 517 to 683. 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 concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, beginning opposite page 684 and separately paged from 1 to 32, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Winston- Salem. The advertisements 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 large commercial and industrial center like Winston-Salem, 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.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 717 to 769, on white paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical 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 commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY extends from page 771 to page 814.
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Municipal Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, 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 ad- vertisements of Wintson-Salem.
The Winston-Salem Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Winston-Salem City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Winston- Salem Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 450 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 recognition 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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The Heart of Winston-Salem's Business Section
An Appreciation
"I learned to love this community when a child, and have grown greatly to respect and admire it through the past half century.
"There are here those great influences of the inner life of manhood and womanhood which decidedly make for constructive citizenship, friendly living and a genuine comradeship of interest which are in the main accountable for the material progress nar- rated within these pages.
"From long experience I assuredly believe that this is a com- munity of friendly-minded and appreciative people. I truly believe further that there is here a sincerity of cooperation which moves beneath the surface and richly endows the daily life of this favored community.
"Living in Winston-Salem is not an experience of isolation and loneliness, because men and women find friends and form friend- ships here in a spiritual atmosphere, sincere in its welcome and lasting in its fellowship.
"Nor is this without historic reason. Not often is there to be found such a community, bottomed upon a pioneer life, which, while it sought freedom of conscience, expressed this freedom in industrial diligence, economic resourcefulness and spiritual self- control.
"Around this foundation group there has been steadily gathered that larger present citizenship, which, appreciative of the past, is interpreting these inherited ideals in terms of Twentieth Century living."
This tribute, written to his home city by Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler, president of Salem College, is the keynote to a presentation that seeks to give a vital picture of an old town and a younger town, Salem and Winston, growing together through cooperative effort into the leading industrial city of the Southeast, Winston-Salem.
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The Founding of Salem
The first tree was felled for the first house in Salem on a cold day in February, 1766. Neither the site nor the act was incidental, for the Moravian settlers, seeking a home in a new country, had made their selection in advance with utmost care, as their diary shows.
Choosing new homesites was not unprecedented with them. From the middle of the Fifteenth Century, when their spiritual ancestors in Bohemia, seeking religious freedom after the martyrdom of John Hus, had first ungloved the harsh hand of persecution, these pre-Reformation Protestants, composing the first fully-organized Protestant church, had sought homes wherever freedom was promised. The nationalities of the eight "original settlers" in North Carolina-two Danes, two Germans, one Englishman and three Southern Europeans-indicate to some extent the dispersing of this intensely-religious group, known as the Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of Brethren. The first American settlement was made in Savannah, in 1735. In 1740 the Moravians, as they are now called, came to Bethlehem, Pa., and in 1752, to the 100,000-acre tract in North Carolina which the church had purchased from the Earl of Granville. It was called "Wacho- via" after the name of the ancestral Austrian home of Count Zinzendorf, powerful Saxon nobleman who befriended the Moravians, and later became their leader.
The only "religious peculiarity" of these ancient and much-persecuted Christians was the desire for freedom in worship, tranquility in living, and cooperation and industry in their daily tasks. These attributes made them excellent citizens.
The Village Grows
The town that had been named and planned so long in advance, Salem, signifying peace, took shape quickly. Among the first structures that are still standing and still serving are: The Brothers House, now the Moravian Church Home, built in 1769; the Sisters House, now a part of Salem College, built in 1772; the Salem Tavern, built in 1784; the Com- munity Store; the Boys School, now the Wachovia Historical Museum; built in 1791; the Home Moravian Church, built in 1800, supplanting an earlier "Gemein Haus," or Community House; and a number of private dwellings and other buildings erected prior to 1800. Visitors are welcomed to all of these.
Wrote Frederick Wm. Marshall, who later became one of the leading citizens of Salem, "The town is not designed for farmers, but for those with trades." Thus from the beginning there was a diversity of occupation that first of all provided with amazing thoroughness for the needs of settlers in a backwoods community, and then laid the foundation for the industrial diversification that characterizes the city's present manu- facturing.
Salem enjoyed its own municipal water works system long before many other cities gave up open wells; Salem had a municipal fire depart- ment, volunteer, but equipped with the first fire engine in America, when Indians were still frequent visitors to the community; Salem had a planned system of street-lighting, zoning, garbage-disposal, and other features which gave it a completeness far surpassing many larger cities during the Revolutionary and early national periods.
Care for Education
Church and school have always been the twin pillars of every Moravian community. So in Salem a school for girls was opened in 1772, and shortly afterward, a school for boys. Salem College, for young women, today combines 166 years of service and tradition with a present-day adequacy that merits high scholastic rating. For both boys and girls, the rudi- mentary studies were supplemented with instruction in music, for which the Moravians have long been recognized, and the arts. From the outset there was a general interest in all the cultural aspects that make for progressive civic life.
Winston-Salem is exceedingly proud of its present school system. thoroughly equipped to meet the exacting demands of a complex social order.
The Founding of Winston
Winston, like Salem, did not grow up accidentally at a crossroads or convenient landing. When the County of Forsyth was created in 1849, the site for Winston was chosen as that best suited for the new county
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town. Named for Gen. Joseph Winston, of Revolutionary distinction, the town had, in 1850, a handsome brick court house, a substantial hitching rail, and a fenced-in court house square fringed with stores and homes.
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I. Dogwood Time in a City Garden, Winston-Salem. The Rolling Topography of the Piedmont Lends Itself to Effective Landscaping.
2. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium, Winston-Salem, Built at a Cost of $750,000. Used as a Part of the High School Plant and as a Civic Auditorium.
3. One of Many Spacious Estates Near Winston-Salem.
4. Hanging Rock, in Hanging Rock State and National Park, 30 Miles from Winston-Salem.
5. P. H. Hanes Knitting Co., Winston-Salem. A Part of One of the City's Large Industrial Plants.
6. The Home Moravian Church, Built in 1800. and the Main Hall of Salem College, Founded in 1772.
The fact was clearly obvious from the beginning that whether or not Winston became a city, and the type of city Winston was to become, were matters of interest primarily to those who resided in the community. There were no railroads, highways, waterways, electric power and mineral resources, nor was there any favorable combination of circumstances des- tined to produce a city at this spot. Winston-Salem had to be built, and built from within.
Consolidation
Winston and Salem soon grew together, not only in physical fact, but in community interest. As early as 1885 a local chronicler wrote: "The ground so sparsely settled a hundred years ago is now occupied by two
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prosperous and growing towns. We notice that they have recently been recognized under their combined name, 'Winston-Salem', in a bill intro- duced into the U. S. Senate by one of our senators. A Chamber of Com- merce now amicably and usefully binds the two towns together."
There were numerous adjustments to be made, but the cooperative spirit of the whole citizenry that had characterized both towns from their foundings triumphed in the ratification in 1913 of "An Act to Consolidate the City of Winston and the Town of Salem."
The silver jubilee of the consolidation is being celebrated during 1938.
Industrial Development
The year 1913 has another significance for Winston-Salem from the viewpoint of its remarkable industrial development, for it was at that time that the manufacture of cigarettes was begun on a large scale.
The seeds of industry had been sown early. The first tobacco factory was built in 1872, and by 1885 there were fully fifty concerns in operation, ranging from simple sheds or barns where one or two operators made tobacco into plugs, to substantial factories employing several hundred workers. In 1875, when the Reynolds Tobacco Co. built its first brick buildings, the total local investment in the tobacco industry in all its phases in Winston was $25,000. Today this same industry pays approximately $160,000,000 a year in internal revenue alone.
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