Miller's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.) City Directory [1947], Part 1

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Publication date: 1947
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GENERAL INDEX


Page


Abbreviations


24 and 25


Alphabetical List of Names


25


Apartment Buildings


766


Associations and Clubs-Commercial


769


Banks and Trust Companies 775


Buildings-Office and Public


780


Bus and Coach Lines-Motor


781


Buyers' Guide


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652


Cemeteries


782


Churches


783


City Government


43


Classified Business Directory


765


Clergymen


786


Clubs


789


County Officers


108


Courts


108


Fire Department


44


Golf Clubs and Courses


809


Halls


812


Homes and Asylums


813


Hospitals and Dispensaries


81.4


Hotels


814


Justices of the Peace


820


Labor Organizations


820


Libraries


823


Newspapers


830


Parks and Playgrounds


835


Police Department


44


Post Office


593


Railroads


843


School Board


44


Schools-Parochial


850


Schools-Public


850


Schools, Colleges and Academies 851


Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal 853


Societies-Miscellaneous 854


Societies-Patriotic


854


State Government


438


Street and Avenue Guide


follows Classified


United States Government


592


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION


Page


Acousticon-Asheville Co. 56


All Electric Co. 60


Allen Asheville Transfer & Storage Co. 106


Allen Funeral Home. 50


American Enka Corp. 88


Anders-Rice Funeral Home. 47


Anderson Transfer Co 106


Arthur W H Co ...... right side lines and 99


Asheville Baking Co Inc. 15


Asheville Bedding Co. . 76


Asheville-Biltmore Hotel.


left side lines and


57


C C R Coal Co. .right side lines and Camera House The ... left side lines and


Asheville Cab Co .. 105 Asheville Citizen Times Co. left top lines and Z Cannon Music Co.


Asheville Cleaners & Dyers . top stencil and Asheville Credit Reporting & Collection Bureau


31 44


Asheville Furniture Co.


Asheville Ice & Storage Co Inc.


Asheville Laundry . back cover, 27 and 31 Carroll John . right top lines and Carter Lumber Co.right bottom lines and Carver A G & Son Realtors. 69


Asheville Mack Distributors 5 Cauble J E


Asheville Miami Realty Co


. left side lines and 93


Asheville Paving Co. 34 Asheville Sporting Goods Store Inc.


.right side lines and 103 Asheville Steel & Salvage Co. left side lines and 104 Asheville Storage Battery Co Inc .. left side lines and 5 Asheville Union Bus Station Inc. .right top lines and 22


Asheville Welding


109


Asheville Willys Co 6 Commercial Adjustment Co.


Aston, Stikeleather & Co.


.right top lines and 62 Autrey-Smathers Insurance Agency Inc .right top lines and 63


B & J Department Store. 41


Bank of Asheville The .... right top lines Barnett J L & Co. 93


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Beaumont Furniture Co Inc.


Belk's Department Store. left top lines and 53


Berryman Funeral Home. front cover and Biltmore Cleaners & Laundry Inc ... .right side lines and 72 75


Biltmore Coal & Lumber Co .... . .29 and Biltmore Dairy Farms. . left side lines and 36


Biltmore Furniture Co .. 53 Dunn & Lovin Funeral Home


Biltmore Radio & Refrigeration Service 60 Efird's Department Store.


Biltmore Tire & Recapping Co. . left side lines and 6


Bird Coal Co Inc. 29


Bishop's. . right side lines and 101


Blanton's Business


College.


. back cover and 23


Blue Bird Taxi Co of Asheville Inc.


105


Blue Ridge Trucking Co


108


Bon Marche Inc ...


.... front cover, right bottom lines and 38


Booth R P & Co. back cover and 89


Branch & Ingram. 81


Brown Book Corp. 79


Buckler Studio .... ribbon book mark and 83


Buckner Transfer Co. 108


Buford-Lange Co Inc ..


24


Builders Supply & Coal Co Inc.


left bottom lines and


Burton Roy E.


.right bottom lines and


Burton & Son.


.right top lines and


Burton's Opticians.


21 91 53 80 30 85 Candler W R Transfer Co. 107 77 Carolina Coal & Ice Co.left top lines and Carolina Garden Stores Inc ..


28


Carolina,


Industrial Bank.


.right bottom lines and 15 Carolina Power & Light Co .. .back cover and X Carolina Sheet Metal Works. 102 68 Carpenter-Matthew Jewelers. 26 75 93 93 22


Cecil's Business College.


Childers G Lake. 94


Citizens Hardware & Supply Co Inc.


55


Citizens Transfer & Coal Co. right side lines and 30


105


City Cab Co. Cobb Owen F Coca-Cola Bottling Co of Asheville NC .. 66 left side lines and Cody Realty & Mortgage Co. Coker Bros Heating & Air Conditioning Co . left bottom lines and 18 94 35 31 79 Commercial Stationers Inc. 75


Community Coal & Lumber Co. .right side lines,30 and


Concrete Products Co.


right side lines and


Cordell Motor Co.


Cox Music House .. right bottom lines and Culberson Studio. . Street Divider Curtiss Motor Co.


Dacy Electric Co


Dillard Realty Co. . left side lines and Dixie Pit Barbecue


Dunham's Music House.


left side lines and 77


Dunn & Groce Funeral Home Inc. .. . backbone, A and 49 49


Empire Realty right side lines and


41 92 54


Enman's Furriers.


Evans Esso Service Center 7


Fain's Thrift Store. 42


Farm Equipment Co. 45


Farmers Federation Cooperative. . back cover, 46 and 47


Fields Clothes


Inc.


right bottom lines and


26


32 11 78 7 60 91 98 90


48


Bell Finance Co. right top lines and 40 72 Duckworth James H. left bottom lines and


Battery Park Hotel.


front cover, right top lines and


43


right side lines and 101


Asheville Electric Co ... left side lines and Asheville Fish Co Inc .. .right side lines and 76 51


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Page


First National Bank & Trust Co.


.front cover and


17


Fisher Elliot Lyman. 84


Ford & Sluder Recapping Co Inc 8


Fortune's Paint & Hardware Co. right side lines and 80


Frank Austin Co. back cover and 19


Free Service Tire Store. 11


French Broad Laundry


.left side lines and 72


Gaines Displays .... left bottom lines and 102 Gaskins Realty Co Agents.


.right side lines and 94


General Building Products Co Inc. 21


Goodrich B F left bottom lines and 8


Gordon's Jewelers. 6:8


Green Hills Cemetery Assn Inc.


.right side lines and 25


Green Ottis Hardware Co


55


Greene & Goodman Inc. 65


Greer Funeral Home. 50


Grove Park Inn. B


Grove Stone & Sand Co.


.. front cover, left top lines and 100 Hall Coal Co .. 30 Harper's Lumber Yard ... back cover and 20 Harrison Auto Parts Co. .right bottom lines and 12


Haverty Furniture Co .right top lines and 53


Haynes M B Electric Co. . right side lines and 44


Henry Funeral Home. 51 Henry J T 105


Hensley James H Jr. 95


Hill's Market. 76


Hofmann Roland P 95


Home Finance Co


.left bottom lines and 14


Hoovers Pure Oil Service .. 12


Hospital Care Assn Inc The. 57 Hotel Asheville. 57


Hotel Charmil 59


House of Light The .... left top lines and 44


Hursey & Co .. 68 Ice Service Inc.


Imperial Life Insurance Co. right top lines and 61


Ingle Transfer & Storage Co 107


.... left top and right bottom lines and 39


Jarrett Furniture Co. 52 Johnson-Chandley Lumber Co Inc. 74


Johnson H E Co .... left bottom lines and 92 Jolly Cab Service 106


54


Kindler H W & Co 85


King Hotel 59


L B W Electric Co 44


Langren Hotel. left side lines and 58 Leavitt Insurance Agency .left side lines and 65 Lee's Jewelers Inc 49 69 Lewis Funeral Home .. right side lines and London Sign Co .... left bottom lines and 103 Luther-Morgan Co 61 M & J Finance Corp.


15 M & M Body & Radiator Works ..


.left side lines and 9


Matthews Motor Sales .... front cover and 2 McCoy-Wilkins Funeral Home Inc. 51 McCracken Lola B. 97 McIntire-Jones Oil Co Inc.


left top lines and McRary & Son Inc. . left bottom lines and Middlemount Gardens Inc. Street Divider


12 75


Page


Milner Hotel


59


Modern Finance Corp


Moore M V & Co Moore Furniture Co. 54 27 Morgan Bros Inc .... right side lines and Morris-Gearing Funeral Home. 24 50 Mountain City Laundry 85 .right top lines and Moser Plumbing Co Mountain Retreat Assn 70 Y 95 National Agency .... left bottom lines and National Furniture Co. . left side lines and National Truck Service Inc. 52 12 Nettlewood Nurseries 79 78 Neville Music Co North Carolina Equipment Co. .left bottom lines and Occidental Life Insurance Co of N C .... Ochsenreiter Gene Inc ..... backbone and Orkin Exterminating Co. 33 67 3 82 9 61


Orr Ed Motors. .right side lines and Palmer Ed Co


Parkland Chevrolet Co Inc.


right side lines and Parkland Chevrolet Co Inc (Farm Supply Dept) right side lines and


45 78


Piano Shop The


Pless Motor Co


4 bottom stencil, right bottom lines and Polk's Bankers Encyclopedia 110 Poole E S Construction Co. 33 Pope Insurance Agency Inc left side lines and 66


59


Princess Anne Hotel. .right bottom lines and Pritchard Paint & Glass Co of Asheville Inc .. . left side lines and 81 Protex Weather Strip & Screen Co. .right side lines and 109


Public Service Co of N C Inc .. right top lines and 55 21 98 34 67 61 47 13 62 95 96


Ramsey L D & Co


Rathskeller The


Reed & Abee Inc .... right side lines and Reliance Life Insurance Co. .right top lines and


Reusing's


Riddle Floor Co. .left side lines and Robinson Bros Motor Co ..


Rock Wool Insulating Co of Asheville. .right side lines and


Rothrock Realty Co. Rowland Tom Jr Realtor


.right side lines and Roy's Paint & Wall Paper Store Royal Crown Bottling Co of Asheville .. left side lines and right side lines and 82 17 26 StLawrence Catholic Church. 13 13 Salvation Army The. . right side lines and 103 Sams Motor Sales .... right side lines and Sawyer Motor Co Inc.right side lines and Schley John E 67 82


Schneble Robert .... left bottom lines and Sears, Roebuck and Co .. . right top lines and 40


Sellers Cabinet Shop.right side lines and 2


Service Paint Co Inc. left side lines and 81


Sherwin-Williams Co The. left side lines and 82 Skyland Motors Inc 10 Skyway Broadcasting Corp. .left side lines and 87 Southern Dairies Inc


.left top and right bottom lines and 37 Southern Foot Clinic 102


13


First Mortgage & Investment Co 94 Minico Inc .right side lines and 69 72


.front cover and Ivey's Inc ..


64


Judd Furniture & Supply Co.


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Page


Page


Street E S Co ...... left bottom lines and 10


Superior Coal Co ... left top lines and 27


Swannanoa Laundry Inc.


. back cover, right bottom lines and 71


Symms Milkwork & Supply Co Inc. .. right side lines and 73 80


Talman Office Supplies Inc.


Tennessee Roofing Co. 98


Thomas Buick Inc


11


Thompson Eva A Dr.


26


Thrash Coal Co 29


Tingle's Cafe


97


Tom's One Stop Truck Service.


. left side lines and


14


Travelers Hotel


United Battery & Electric Co. 14


United Benefit Life Insurance Co. 66


Vanderbilt George Hotel The C and 58


Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.


front stencil, right top lines and 16


Walker E A ........ left bottom lines and 96


Warm-Aire Heating Co 56 West Asheville News The 79 Western Carolina Insurance Agency Inc .. 67 White L A Sheet Metal Works. . .right side lines and 101


White Transportation Co Inc .. .right bottom lines and


22


White's Monument Works. 76


White's Service Inc 14


Williams A C Plumbing Co


86


Williams-Brownell Planing Mill Co Inc. . Wilson Funeral Home


74 51


Wilson Plumbing Co Inc.


86


60 Winner's Inc left top lines and


41


Wright A C


96


York & Co


96


Youngblood J N Truck Lines. .left bottom lines and 108


Your Personal Representative 97


INTRODUCTION


PIEDMONT DIRECTORY CO., publishers of Miller's Asheville City Directory, present to subscribers and the gen- eral public, this, the 1947 edition of the Asheville City Di- rectory, which also includes Beverly Hills, Biltmore, Biltmore Forest, Broadview, East Biltmore, Lake View Park, Linwood Park, Oakley, Oaklyn Park, Sayles Village and South Bilt- more.


Confidence in the continued growth of Asheville's indus- try, 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 Asheville to the world.


The enviable position occupied by the Asheville City Di- rectory in the estimation of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an un- rivaled 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 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 follow- ing order :-


THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 25 to 650, on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and ad- dress of each adult resident of Asheville and vicinity, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation.


THE BUYERS' GUIDE, preceding the Classified and sep- arately paged from 1 to 112, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and pro- fessional interests of Asheville and vicinity. The advertise- ments are indexed under headings descriptive of the busi- ness represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize them- selves 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. Gen- eral appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many ref- erence users of this City Directory service.


THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 765 to 862, on yellow paper. This Department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in al- phabetical 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 meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.


THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, follows the


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Classified and is separately paged from 1 to 198. In this section the names of the streets are arranged 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 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 resort, 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 Ashe- ville and vicinity.


The Asheville Directory Library


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Asheville City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the of- fices of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, for free refer- ence by the general public. This is one of 600 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 recog- nition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Direc- tory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.


PIEDMONT DIRECTORY CO.,


Publishers.


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-17.7 square miles.


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


Climate-Mean annual temperature, 55.4 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 38.02 inches.


Parks-15, with total of 419.6 acres, valued at $516,529. Assessed Valuation-$56,718,399 (1946), with $1.53 per $100 tax rate.


Financial Data-3 commercial banks, with total deposits in excess of $51,000,000. Clearings for 1946, $474,470,000.


Postal Receipts-$525,336 (1946).


Telephones in Service-17,545.


Churches-105, representing 16 denominations.


Industry-Chief industries of city and surrounding territory: Resort business, manufacturing and lumber. Prin- cipal manufactured products of city and vicinity: Blankets, cotton and yarn goods, flour and feed, furniture, leather goods, mica products, packing products, printing and pub- lishing products, cigarette papers and rayon yarn.


Trade Area-Retail area covers 20 counties, with total population of 490,013.


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


Hotels-12, with total of 2,382 rooms.


Railroads-Southern.


Highways-U. S. 19, 23, 25, 70 and 74. Blue Ridge Park- way from Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Moun- tains National Park is now under construction. 12,350 miles of hard-surfaced roads in the state.


Airports-Asheville has 3 airports for the use of flying enthusiasts, the largest of these being the Asheville-Hender- sonville Airport, located at Fletcher, south of Asheville. Handling flights of Delta, Capital and Southeast air lines, it is well equipped with a large hangar, licensed mechanics and instructors and 2 training schools. Turn east at inter- section in Biltmore; route to airport is well marked. Ashe- ville's 2 private airports are Carrier Field, which has a good hangar and houses about 10 private planes, and Joe Joseph- son's Air Park at Emma. Josephson's Airport has about 8 private planes, 2 hangars and a lunch room, and may be reached by turning right immediately after crossing the West Asheville Bridge on U. S. 19 and 23. Carrier Field may be reached by taking the river road between Asheville and Biltmore.


Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 3,500


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persons. 7 moving-picture theatres, with total seating ca- pacity of 5,300 persons. 5 golf courses.


Hospitals-7, with total cf 413 beds.


Education-Institutions of higher learning include St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines, Asheville School for Boys, Asheville- Biltmore College and Plonk School of Creative Arts. 16 pub- lic schools, including 1 senior high school, 2 junior high schools and 7 elementary schools for whites, and 1 senior high school and 5 elementary schools for Negroes. 3 paro- chial schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 7,827; teachers, 239. Value of public school property, $5,345,580.25.


Libraries-9, with total of 101,480 volumes.


City Statistics-Total street mileage, 200.54, with 153.06 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 94; sewers, 181. Number of water meters, 15,813; light meters, 12,110; gas meters, 3,625. Capacity of water works, 700,000,000 gallons; daily average use, approximately 9,000,000 gallons; flow by gravity; miles of mains, 274; value of plant, $5,000,000. Fire depart- ment has 66 men, with 5 stations and 11 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $280,000. Po- lice department has 70 men, with 1 station and 13 pieces of motor equipment.


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 had 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, and was known for about three years of its early history as Morris- town. 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


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the western part of the city, west of the French Broad River. Later the tourist traffic increased 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 also have developed in the mountain section, to the point that Asheville has become a marketing and shopping center for 20 counties of western North Carolina.


Excellent Highways Lead in Every Direction


Government


Buncombe County is governed by a board of three com- missioners. Asheville has the council-manager form of gov- ernment, which includes 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 country, due to an efficient fire department, and the police department has be- come highly effective with the aid of radio, cooperation with state and county law-enforcement officers and by means of the police cruiser system. Two police radio stations are lo- cated here, one atop the Buncombe County Building and the other, a State police radio station, on the Black Mountain highway.




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