Miller's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.) City Directory [1944], Part 1

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MILLER'S ASHEVILLE (BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N. C.)

CITY DIRECTORY Vol. 1944 XLI

Including Beverly Hills, Biltmore, Biltmore Forest, Broadview, East Biltmore, Lake View Park, Linwood Park, Oakley, Oaklyn Park, Oteen, Sayles Village and South Biltmore

Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Com- plete Street and Avenue Guide; also a

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Alphabetical List of Names

Apartment Buildings

Associations and Clubs-Commercial

Banks and Trust Companies Board of Education Buildings-Office and Public

Bus and Coach Lines-Motor Buyers Guide

Cemeteries

Churches

City Government

Classified Business Directory Clergymen

Clubs

County Officers

Fire Department

Golf Clubs and Courses

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Justices of the Peace Labor Organizations Libraries

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Street and Avenue Guide

Tourists' Camps

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION

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Allanstand 40

Allen Funeral Home 37

American Enka Corp 65

Arcade Beauty Shop 11

Arthur W. H. Co

right side lines and 72

Asheville Baking Co Inc The

9

Asheville Battery Co

left side lines and

7

Asheville Bedding Co

56

Asheville Biltmore Hotel

Cannon-Hellen Music Co

63

Carolina Coal & Ice Co

Carolina Finance Co

right side lines and 53

Carolina Garden Store Inc

Asheville Citizen-Times Co

right side lines and 72

Carolina Power & Light Co

back cover and

X

Carolina Sheet Metal Works

73

Carpenter-Matthew Jewelers

48

Carroll & Co Inc

right top lines and 49

Carter Lumber Co

left side lines and 55

Cecil's Business College

17

Chimney Rock Co

left side lines and 72

Citizens Hardware & Supply Co

41

Citizens Transfer & Coal Co

right side lines and 24

Coca-Cola Bottling Co of Asheville

left side lines and 12

Cody Realty & Mortgage Co

68

Coleman Wm ..

right bottom lines and 68

Commercial Adjustment Co

25

Commercial Stationers Inc

left side lines and 59

Community Coal & Lumber Co

right side lines and 24

Crouch Garland E

44

Culberson Studio

street divider

Dillard Insurance Agency

_left side lines

Dillard Realty Co

68

Dixie Pit Barbecue

71

Dunham's Music House

left side lines and 58 Dunn and Groce Funeral Home Inc

backbone, 36 and A

Efird's Department Store

right side lines and 31

Enman's Furriers

39

Farmers Federation Inc __ back cover and 33

Farmers Federation Cooperative Frozen

Food Plant

34

Fields Clothes Inc

right bottom lines and 20

Firestone Stores left side lines and 3 First Mortgage & Investment Co 68 First National Bank front cover, left top lines, right bottom lines and 10 Fisher Elliott Lyman backbone and 62 Austin Frank Co back cover and 14

front cover, right bottom lines and 30

Booth R P & Co.

back cover and 66

St Lawrence Catholic Church

18

Freck Radio & Supply Co

39

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Bracey H D Co

67

Bramlett & Burton

right bottom lines and 67

Brownell-Dunn & Lovin Inc

34

Builders' Supply & Coal Co

left side lines and 15

Burton & Son

right top lines and 38

C C R Coal Co

right side lines and 23

Candler W R Transfer Co

right side lines and 75

left side lines and 43 Asheville Blue Gem Coal Co left top lines and 21

right side lines and 20

Asheville Cemetery Co

left top lines and 18

left top lines and Z Asheville Cleaners & Dyers

top stencil and 19 Asheville Federal Savings & Loan Assn

Asheville Fish Co Inc

bottom stencil and 16

right side lines and 71 Asheville Ice & Storage Co Inc back cover, 24 and 44 Asheville Laundry front cover, right top lines and 52 Asheville Nehi Bottling Co left side lines and 12

Asheville Sign Service

74

Asheville Union Bus Station

right top lines and 17

Asheville Upholstering & Cabinet Co

76

Asheville Welding Co

76

Aston, Stikeleather & Co

right top lines and 46

Auto Parts & Gear Co

2

Autrey-Smathers Ins Agency

right top lines and 45 Bank of Columbia The right top lines Battery Park Hotel

Beaumont Furniture Co

left top lines and 38 Belk's Department Store

right top lines and 30

Bell Finance Co

53

Berryman Funeral Home

front cover and 35

Biltmore Cleaners & Laundry Inc

right side lines and 52 Biltmore Coal Co 22

Biltmore Dairy Farms

left side lines and 27

Bird Coal Co Inc

23

Blanton's Business College

25

Blue Ridge Trucking Co

75

Bon Marche Inc

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French Broad Laundry Inc

right side lines and 52

Galliher Bros 54 an 55

Gaskins Realty Co __ right side lines and 70

General Building Products Co

15

Georgia Motor Express Inc

75

Goodrich B F Silvertown Stores 3

Green Hills Cemetery Assn

_right side lines and 18

Green Ottis Hardware Co

41

Greene & Goodman Inc 45

Grove Park Inn B

Grove Stone & Sand Co

front cover, left top lines and 13

Harper's Lumber Yard

back cover and 14

Harrison Auto Parts Co right bottom lines and 2

Haverty Furniture Co

right top lines and 38

Hotel Asheville

42

Hotel Charmil 43

Hursey & Co 48

Ice Service Inc

-right top lines and 44

Ideal Paint & Hardware Co

right side lines and 60

Imperial Life Ins Co front cover and 47 Ingle Transfer & Storage Co left side lines and 57 International Harvester Company 9

left top lines,

Ivey's Inc

right bottom lines and 29

Jarrett Furniture Co

left side lines and 39

Johnson-Chandley Lumber Co Inc

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Johnson H E Co

_left bottom lines and 69

Langren Hotel

left side lines and 42

Leavitt Insurance Agency

left side lines and 46

Lee's Jewelers Inc

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Lewis Funeral Home

right side lines and 36

Love Harry W

left sides lines and 46

M & M Body & Radiator Works

left side lines and

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M & M Tire Shop 2

McCracken Lola B 69 Swannanoa Laundry Inc

Matthews Motor Sales front cover and 5

McCoy-Wilkins Funeral Home Inc 37

McIntire-Jones Oil Co _ _ left top lines and

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Thompson Eva A Dr

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McRary & Son Inc __ left bottom lines and 55

Tingle Cafe

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Meadows E F Sheet Metal Works

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Thrash Coal Co

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Middlemount Gardens

street divider

Milner Hotel

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Minico Inc

right side lines and 52

Modern Finance Co

53

Moore Furniture Co 39

Moore M V & Co

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Morgan Bros Inc right side lines and 17 Morgan & Bishop Sheet Metal Works

right side lines and 74

Morris-Gearing Funeral Home 36

Moseley T G back cover and 4

Mountain City Laundry

right top lines and 50

Mountain Retreat Assn

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Nettlewood Nurseries

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Neville Music Co 58

Nix Geo B 56

Occidental Life Ins Co 48

Ochsenreiter Gene Inc right side lines and 6

Office Equipment Co

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Orkin Exterminating Co

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Orr Ed Motors

right side lines and

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Palmer Ed Co

32

Protex Weatherstrip & Screen Co

right side lines and 76

Palmer-Lipe Paint Co

61

Parkland Chevrolet Co

right side lines and 8

Plantation The

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Poole Guy Co Inc 19

Pritchard Paint & Glass Co

left side lines and 61

Public Service Co

right top lines and 40

Rathskeller The

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Ray Jesse Funeral Home

left side lines and 37

Reed & Abee Inc

right side lines and 26

Reliance Life Ins Co

right top lines and

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Rendezvous-Bonds

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Reusing Light & Refrigerating Co

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Robinson Flower Shop

left side lines and 34

Rogers Plumbing Co

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Rothrock Realty Co

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Rowland Tom Jr

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Salvation Army The

right side lines and 74

Sears Roebuck and Co

right top lines and 31

Service Paint Co

left side lines and 60

Sherwin-Williams Co The left side lines and 61

Skyland Motors Inc

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Buckner's Transfer

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Southern Dairies Inc

left top lines and 28

Southern News The

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Standard Supply Co

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State Bonding Co ...

right side lines and 11

Superior Coal Co

left top lines and 22

back cover, right bottom lines and 51

Thomas Buick Co __ _ right side lines and

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Tucker Robt

left bottom lines and 67

Vanderbilt George Hotel The

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Wachovia Bank & Trust Co

front stencil, right top lines and 10

West Asheville News The

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White L A Sheet Metal Works

73

White Transportation Co

right bottom lines and 17

White's Monument Works

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White's Service Inc

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Williams A C Plumbing Co

64

Williams-Brownell Planing Mills Co

54

Wilson Plumbing Co

64

Mountain Transportation Co Inc

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Young's Photo Studio

63

Haynes M B Electric Co

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INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

PIEDMONT DIRECTORY CO., publishers of Miller's Asheville City Directory, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1944 edition of the Asheville City Directory, which also includes Beverly Hills, Biltmore, Biltmore Forest, Broadview, East Biltmore, Lake View Park, Linwood Park, Oakley, Oaklyn Park, Oteen, Sayles Village and South Biltmore.

Confidence in the continued growth of Asheville's industry, popu- lation and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social ac- tivities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Asheville to the world.

The enviable position occupied by the Asheville City Directory 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 pro- fessional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Ashe- ville 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.

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 33 to 508, 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 Ashe- ville 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 76, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of lead- ing manufacturing, business and professional interests of Asheville and vicintiy. 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 progressive community and famous resort like Asheville, 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 509

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to 588, on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate head- ings. 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 DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, covers pages 1 to 180. In this section the names of the streets are arrenged 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 inter- secting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.

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 resort, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the pub- lishers 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 Asheville and vicinity.

The Asheville Directory Library

Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Asheville City Direc- tory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Asheville 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 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.

PIEDMONT DIRECTORY CO. Publishers

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STATISTICAL REVIEW

ASHEVILLE

"IN THE LAND OF THE SKY" - "EASTERN GATEWAY CITY TO THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK"

STATISTICAL REVIEW

Form of Government-Council-Manager.

Population- City proper, 51,310; metropolitan area, 76,324 (1940 U. S. Census). American-born 98.1%.

Area- 14.7 square miles.

Altitude- 2,210 to 3,200 feet above sea level.

Climate --

Mean annual temperature, 55.4 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 38.08 inches.

Parks-

14, with total of 413.9 acres, valued at $516,529.

Assessed Valuation- $54,729,705, with $1.89 per $100 tax rate.

Financial Facts- 4 banks and 2 trust companies, with total de- posits in excess of $15,000,000, and total re- sources in excess of $17,000,000. Clearings for 1943, $253,824,000.

Postal Receipts- $415,269 for 1943.

Telephones in Service-15,000 (January 1, 1944).

Churches- 105, representing 16 denominations.

Real Estate Number of homes, about 12,000, with about 40.7% owned by occupants.

Industry- Chief industries of city and surrounding terri- tory: Resort business, manufacturing and lum- ber. 78 manufacturing establishments, em- ploying 7,322 workers, paying wages of over $7,500,000 annually, and having products valued at over $30,000,000 annually (last report) Principal manufactured products of city and vicinity: Blankets, cotton and yarn goods, flour

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and feed, furniture, leather goods, mica pro- ducts, packing products, printing and publish- ing products and rayon yarn.

Trade Area-

Retail area covers 21 counties, with total popu- lation of 500,000.

Newspapers- 2 dailies, combined as one paper on Sunday, and 2 weeklies.

Hotels- 16, with total of 2,600 rooms.

Railroads-

Southern.

Highways-

U. S. 19, 23, 25, 70 and 74. Blue Ridge Parkway from Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park is now under con- struction.

Airports-

1, municipal. P. C. A. service suspended for duration.

Amusements-

Largest auditorium in city seats 3,500 persons. 6 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 4,500 persons. 2 legitimate theatres, with total seating capacity of 5,300 persons. 5 golf courses.

Hospitals- Education-

5, with total of 333 beds.

Institutions of higher learning include St. Genevieve of the Pines, Asheville School for Boys, Asheville College and Biltmore College. 16 public schools, including 1 junior college, 1 senior high school and 2 junior high schools. 3 parochial schools. Number of pupils in pub- lic schools, 9,248; teachers, 274. Value of public school property, $5,345,580.25.

Public Libraries -- City Statistics-

2, with total of 64,475 volumes.

Total street mileage, 200.54, with 153.06 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 94; sewers, 181. Number of water meters, 13,396; light meters, 12,110; gas meters, 2,701. Capacity of water works, 700,000,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, approximately 11,500,000 gallons; miles of mains, 274; value of plant, $5,000,000. Fire department has 63 men, with 5 stations and ll pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $280,000. Police de- partment has 66 men, with 1 station and 13 pieces of motor equipment.

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Asheville from Beaucatcher Mountain

POPULATION

Asheville is the county seat of Buncombe County, and one of the principal resort centers of the eastern U. S. The city has a population of 51,310 according to the report of the U. S. Census of 1940, with a metropolitan area population of 76,324.

HISTORY

Asheville was founded in 1797 by John Burton, the city being known tor about three years of its early history as Morristown. The name was later changed to Asheville, in honor of Samuel and John Ashe, noted men of that period.

The city has long been a resort center, the first resort hotel having been constructed near the Sulphur Springs in the western part of the city, west of the French Broad River. Later the tourist traffic in- creased and other resort hotels were built, including the old Battery Park Hotel on the site now occupied by the modern structure. Other hotels have been constructed with the growth of tourist trade, through expansion of transportation facilities, including railways and highways into the highlands. Industry and agriculture have also developed in the mountain section, to the point that Asheville has become a market- ing and shopping center for 18 counties of western North Carolina.

GOVERNMENT

Buncombe County is governed by a board of three commissioners. Asheville has the council-manager form of government, which includes

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a mayor and six other councilmen and a city manager. The two governmental bodies are housed in the handsome city and county buildings which flank the central city plaza. The city has one of the lowest fire records of any city of its size in the coun- try, due to an efficient fire department, and the police department has become highly effective with the aid of radio, cooperation with state and county law-en- forcement officers and by means of the police cruiser system. Two police radio stations are located here, one atop the Buncombe County Building and the other, a State police radio station, on the Black Moun- tain highway. Excellent Highways Lead in Every Direction

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Scenic and other attractions of Asheville and western North Caro- lina are always of paramount interest to visitors. The famous Biltmore House and Gardens, located in the midst of the 15,000-acre Biltmore Estate in Ashe- ville, have been open to public view since 1930. The noted man- sion, adjudged one of the finest private homes in the world, was constructed nearly half a century ago by the late George W. Vanderbilt. The House, built Biltmore House after the architec- tural pattern of the

French chateaux, contains a vast collection of objects of artistic and historic value, gathered at great cost by Mr. Vanderbilt, in all parts of the world. Notable among the priceless treasures on display are the chessmen of Napoleon, the ceremonial robes of Cardinal Richelieu, ancient tapestries which graced the tent of Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and a myriad other rare and precious objects.

Surrounding the House, the vast expanse of gardens and landscaped park presents a great mass of flowers and superbly-designed vistas to

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the beholder throughout the spring, summer and autumn seasons.

In Riverside Cemetery are located the tombs of the famous writer, O. Henry, and Zebulon Vance, Civil War Governor of North Carolina, and the now-famous marker erected to the memory of 18 German sailors by members of the Kiffin Rockwell Post of the American Legion. This is the only monument ever erected by American soldiers to the memory of their foreign foes. Also in Asheville, in the city of his birth, is the tomb of the late lamented Thomas Wolfe, internationally-known author of "Look Homeward, Angel," "Of Time and the River,". "The Web and the Rock" and "You Can't Go Home Again.'

The famous Craggy Rhododendron Gardens, located on the crest of the Great Craggy Mountains near Asheville, are one of the noted scenic attractions of the region near the city. The gardens, which pre-

Unique Grove Park Inn

sent the massed bloom of millions of purple rhododendron shrubs in June, are reached by means of a link of the famous Blue Ridge Parkway and a forest motor road via Barnardsville, and are the objective for many visitors in Asheville during the Rhododendron Festival.

Grove Park Inn, because of its unique setting and architecture, is a point often visited in the city. Circling the summits of the mountains

Mount Mitchell, Highest Peak East of the Rockies

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near the city, the Asheville Scenic Highway reveals surpassingly beau- tiful vistas to the motorist.

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