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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
PIEDMONT DIRECTORY CO., publishers of Miller's Asheville City Direc- tory (publishers of the Asheville City Directory since 1899), present to sub- scribers and the general public, this, the 1956 edition, which also includes Beverly Hills, Biltmore Forest (N. C. ), Broadview Park, East Biltmore, Gen- try Park, Lakeview Terrace, Linwood Park, Martel Mill Village, Morningside, Oakley, Oaklyn Park, Sayles Village, South Biltmore and Woodfin (N. C. ). A. new feature, the listing of telephone numbers in the Directory of Householders, marks this edition.
Confidence in the continued growth of Asheville's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be main- tained 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 esti- mation 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 pub- lishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Asheville Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.
Five Major Departments (Each department beginning with Page 1)
The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
I. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the first major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that shows the name, marital status, oc- cupation and address of each adult resident of Asheville and vicinity, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation.
II. THE BUYERS' GUIDE, the second major department, printed on gold- enrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Asheville and vicinity. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is refer- ence advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to famil- iarize 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 evi- denced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
III. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is the third major depart- ment, printed on canary paper. This department lists the names of all busi- ness 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 interme- diary 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.
IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AV- ENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, is the fourth major department. 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 con- cerns 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. A special feature of this section is the designation of tenant-owned homes and a new feature, is the listing of telephone numbers.
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V. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fifth major department.
Community Publicity
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
Page
Allen Asheville Transfer & Storage Co .
163
Allen-Birchette Funeral Home .
75
Allanstand Mountain Craft Shop
83
American Cab Co Inc. .
160
Anders-Rice Funeral Home
75
Anderson-Brown Patrol Inc.
123
Arcadia Dairy Farm . . left bottom lines and
58
Arden Greenhouse & Florist.
68
Arden-Oakes Kennels.
105
Arthur W H Co.
left side lines and
147
Artmore Furniture Co
76
Asheville Baking Co . left bottom lines and
28
Asheville Cab Co.
. left bottom lines and 160
Asheville Cleaners & Dyers . top stencil and 39
Asheville Collection Bureau right side lines and 50
Asheville Federal Savings & Loan Association .
. back cover and
150 47
Asheville Ice & Storage Co Inc.
.right bottom lines, 42 and
156
Asheville Laundry front cover and
Asheville Paving Co
Asheville Roofing & Heating Co.
Asheville Sign Service left top lines and
154
Asheville Storage Battery Co Inc left side lines and
Asheville Welding Co . left top lines and
Asheville White Sales Inc left side lines and
168 95
Atkinson Ed Co Inc .
right side lines and
Austin Frank Co.
left side lines and
Auto Parts & Gear Co
Autrey-Smathers Insurance Agency Inc.
. back lip margin, left side lines and
B & J Department Store
left side lines and
96 58
Bagwell Tire Service Inc. front stencil and 5
Bailey's Amoco Service Station
right top lines and
20
Bank of Asheville The .
Battery Park Hotel .
Beaumont Furniture Co Inc . left bottom lines and
Beaver Lake Shell Service left side lines and
Bell Realty & Insurance Co . right top lines and
130 72 139
Beverly Realty Co.
Biltmore Cleaners & Laundry Inc . right side lines and
Biltmore Coal & Lumber Co Inc . right side lines, 43 and
Biltmore Plaza Beauty Shop.
Biltmore Plaza Dining Room
left side lines and
Biltmore Tire & Recapping Co
left side lines and
25
Biltwell Sign Co
left side lines and
155
Bishop's Inc .
Blanton's Business College. back cover and
Blue Gables Rest Home .
Blue Ridge Cleaners .
41 164 24
Bob's Auto Service .
right top lines and
59
Book Mart The
31
Booth R P & Co .
right bottom lines and
131
Buckner Transfer Co
164
Buckner's J K Antique & Reproduction Shop
3
Buena Vista Motel .
116
Buice H L Realty Co
132
MILLIINITIN W
107 69 31 145 161
Biltmore Television Service.
153 35 119
Blue Ridge Trucking Co
right bottom lines and
Bon Marche Inc
right top lines and 29 X 78 20
Berryman Funeral Home right bottom lines and
33 77
Atkinson Luke Furniture Co
33 3
Aston-Stikeleather & Co . . front cover and
156 4 169
Asheville Industrial Supply .
106 56 147
Asheville Steel & Salvage Co right side lines and
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Burton Sam P & Son .
left bottom lines and 78 88
Business Men's Health Club.
Buster's Body Repairing right side lines and 3
C C R Coal Co. . left top lines and
71
Cagle Music Co.
left side lines and
Candlelight Crafts
Candler W R Transfer Co.
Carolina Garden Stores Inc
Carolina Hotel The
Carolina Natural Gas Co Inc
left top lines and back cover, B and
Carolina Sheet Metal Works
left bottom lines and
Carroll John .
right top lines and
Carter Lumber Co
right top lines, 34 and
Cathey Wm B . right side lines and
Cauble J E .
Church Street Parking Lot left side lines and
Citizens Express Inc. .
Citizens Hardware and Supply Co Inc. right side lines, 85 and
City Transfer Co . Clement's Flower Shop left side lines and Cobb Owen F Insurance Agency . back cover and
Community Coal & Lumber Co
Community Credit Co . . right side lines and
Cook Coal Co
right side lines and
Coston Eugene
Cox Esso Servicenter left side lines and
Coxe Avenue Storage Garage .
Creasman's Radio, T V & Appliance Co right top lines and
Credit Bureau of Buncombe County .
Culberson Studio .
Daniels Secretarial Service . A and
Denison Motors Inc. .
left bottom lines and
Dillard Realty Co Inc
Dixie Electric Co .
Driveway's Inc .
Duckworth James H Realty Co.
Duckworth W T Co .
140 16
Duncan Wheel & Axel Service
Dunham's Music House
Dunn John E.
Eagle Insulating Co The
Elias Bernard Realty .
Emma Mill Works Inc
F & G Motors Inc .
Farmers Supply Co Inc.
First Baptist Church .
First Mortgage & Investment Co front cover and
First National Bank & Trust Co
First National Parking Lot
Fisher Elliot Lyman .
114
Fletcher Lumber Co Inc
58
Fortune's Paint & Hardware Co Inc
right bottom lines and
86
Free Service Tire & Appliance Co .
. back cover, right bottom lines, 6 and 64
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Gibson Atlantic Service . left side lines, 17 and
152
Giles J P Agency .
right bottom line and
97 144
Godfrey & Mary's
left side lines, Z and
Gordon's Jewelers
103 78 37
Green Hills Cemetery Assn Inc
155
Green Ottis Hardware Co Inc.
100
Greene & Goodman Inc
Groce Funeral Home Inc . backbone, 2 and
73
Grove Stone & Sand Co right side lines and 149 44
Hall Coal Co . .
151 91 81 63 153 60 113 139 141 15 165 121 164 67 102 32 113 112 46 141 21 15 162 49 124 62 16 133 65 50
125 83 166
right side lines and
right side lines, 118 and
right side lines and
Carolina Power & Light Co .
Coca-Cola Bottling Co of Asheville Inc right side lines, 43, 70 and
134
left side lines and 117 141 left side lines and 93 141 left top lines and 115 left top lines and 17 66 38 112 30 15 125
Fletcher School of Dancing
George Vanderbilt Hotel The
Green Bros .
left bottom lines, 87 and
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Harrington S W Inc.
Harrison Auto Glass Co.
left side lines and
18
Harry's U-Drive-It Co Inc
23 78
Hawkinson Tread Service
right side lines and
65
Haynes M B Electric Corp
left side lines and
123
Henley Paper Co .
left top lines and
Herman Albert B
left side lines and
Hine's Hubert Esso Servicenter
Hodgens Furniture Co
back cover and
Holland Furnace Co .
backbone and
Home Insulation Co
Hospital Care Association Inc The
Hotel Battery Park .
right side lines and
Hotel Carolina The .
Hotel George Vanderbilt The ..
Hotel James-Keys
left side lines and
Hotel Langren The
right side lines and
Hotel Manor The .
right side lines and
Howard Studio
right top lines and
Hursey & Company Jewelers
Hyatt Electric Shop . right side lines and
Hyatt Marguerite School of The Dance
Ingle Transfer & Storage Co .
left bottom lines, Y and
James-Keys Hotel
right side lines and
Jarrett's Press Inc .
Johnson-Chandley Lumber Co Inc
Johnson H E Co
right side lines and
King Insurance Agency
right side lines and
King Realty Co
Lanford H C.
Langren Hotel The left side lines and
Law Thomas M Real Estate Organization:
Leavitt Insurance Agency Inc . . left top lines and
Ledford & Shoemaker Esso Service Center
Lenoir Finance Co of Asheville Inc.
Lewis Funeral Home .
Lutz-Yelton Chain Saw Co
M & J Finance Corp .
Maintenance Mart
Manor Hotel The
Manor Motors Ltd .
Matthews Motor Sales Inc . front cover, right side lines and
McCracken Lola B >
McLean Insurance Agency Inc.
McRary & Son Inc.
Medical-Dental Credit Bureau of Buncombe County
front cover, left side lines and
Metcalf's Coal Yard
Middlemount Gardens Inc.
bottom stencil, left side lines and
Miller N A & Co.
right side lines, 40 and
Minico Inc .
left side lines and
Mister Jr Inc
Modern Cleaners
right top lines and
Modern Sewing Center
Monteath's Gulf Service
left side lines and
Morgan Bros Inc .
Morris-Gearing & Black Funeral Home.
Morrison T S & Co .
Morrison's Showroom of Finer Furniture Inc
right top lines and
right side lines and Moser Plumbing Co.
Motley Helen J.
Mountain City Cleaners & Laundry . left top lines and
109
National Cash Register Company The. right side lines and
36
National Furniture Co
right side lines and
76
left side lines and 84
114
Harry's Cadillac-Pontiac Co Inc
left side lines and
Haverty Furniture Co
left side lines and
18
122 19 79 89 94
90 X 91
Hotel Princess Ann
34 and
Judd Supply Co
right side lines and
C 92 90 92 91 124 104 53 58 163 92 128 114 140 87 102 102 56 90
right bottom lines and 135 100 7 left side lines and right side lines and 22 right side lines and 74 right side lines and 37 left bottom lines and 23 right side lines and 144 right side lines and 92 right side lines and 21 8 back cover and 136 right side lines and right top lines and 102 115 48 44 68 82 108
21 41 40 152 24 36 75 66 80 126 142
Minit-Man Auto Wash
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Nettlewood Nurseries .
North Carolina Equipment Co. left bottom lines and
Occidental Life Insurance Co of Raleigh, N C.
Ochsenreiter Gene Inc
Orr Ed Motors Inc .
left top lines and
10
Parkland Chevrolet Co Inc
front cover and 11
Parrott Tree Surgeons .
right top lines and 168 31
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co of Asheville Inc
left bottom lines and
Piccadilly Restaurant .
Plummer's Radio Service .
left bottom lines and
Pope, Flynn & Co Inc . front cover, left side lines and
Post Machinery Co.
Price John & Co Inc.
Princess Ann Hotel right side lines and
Pritchard Paint & Glass Co of Asheville Inc. . left side lines, 84 and Proffitt's Glass Co . left bottom lines and
Protex Weatherstrip & Screen Co . 26, 158 and
Quality Oil Co.
Rabb Motors Inc. left top lines and
Ray Jesse Funeral Home right side lines and
Reed & Abee Inc
right side lines and
Reusing's .
Robbins Esso Service
Rock Wool Insulating Co of Asheville Inc right side lines and
Roland W E Jewelry Co
StFrancis High School
StJoan of Arc Catholic Church
Saint Lawrence Catholic Church .
Sams Motor Sales Inc . front cover, right side lines and
Schley and Williamson Inc
right top lines and
Selective Sales Inc .
Sherwin-Williams Co The .
Silverman Company . .
Sky City Furniture Store
Sky Club Restaurant .
right side lines and
Sluder & Whitt Inc .
left side lines and
Smathers Rex Realty Co left top lines and
Smith Mark Insurance Broker
left side lines and
Souther J L & Son.
left top lines and
Southern Foot Clinic .
left side lines and
Spinning Wheel The
Stauffer Millwork & Supply Co
Stewart George K Plumbing Co.
Stikeleather J G Co
right bottom lines and
Sullivan Hardware Co of N C Inc. right top lines and
Sunset Cemetery .
left top lines and
Superior Rug Cleaners
Swannanoa Laundry Inc right bottom lines and
Talman Office Supplies Inc front lip margin and
Taylor & Murphy .
Taylor's Young Skyland Gift Shop
Thompson Wayne Inc right side lines, 45 and
Tolley's Nursing Home
right top lines and
Tucker Robert Co left bottom lines and 138
Tuskegee Cleaners . 20th Century Heating Co.
left top lines and
41 55
Twin Willows Motor Court .
171
United Chemical Co Inc . left side lines and
103 C
Vanderbilt George Hotel The
87
Village Hardware Co.
W L O S Broadcasting Station
right side lines and
129
13 142 103 67 52 57 154 83 116 125 137 152 111 75 45 148 110 120 54 83 20 70 118 27
Southeastern Finance Co .
Southern Dairies Inc
Stroup Sheet Metal Works
Superior Coal Co
Thrash Coal & Oil Co
Towne House Doughnut Co Inc
118 170
102 9
146 129 98 115 99 91 121 85 169 71 19 76 51 65 21 92 104 151 37 38 12 101 61 168
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
left side lines and 122 157 79 146 left side lines and 129
Skyway Broadcasting Co
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Walls & Reagan Oil Co Inc.
left side lines and
71
Ward Printing Co . .
129
Weaver & Bramlett Realtors
112 and
142
Webb R Stanford Agency Inc
left side lines and
101
Wenoca Florists . .
. left side lines and
69
White L A Sheet Metal Works .
. right side lines and
153
White Transportation Co
left bottom lines and
14
White & Williams Company
143
Williams A C Plumbing & Heating Co
left side lines and
127
Winner's Inc ..
. left top lines and
62
Woodfin Coal & Ice Co
back cover and
159
Yellow Cab Co .
Young Men's Christian Association of Asheville.
. left bottom lines and
88
Youngblood Truck Lines Inc
right bottom lines and 167
88
Whitt's OK Rubber Welders
46
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ASHEVILLE
"IN THE LAND OF THE SKY"-"EASTERN GATEWAY CITY TO THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK"
(Courtesy Asheville Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government-Council manager.
Population-City proper, 53, 000; metropolitan area, 124, 403 (1950 U. S. Census).
Area-14. 7 square miles.
Altitude-2, 340 feet above sea level.
Climate-Mean annual temperature, 55. 8 degrees F .; average annual rain- fall, 38.11 inches.
Parks-15, with total of 419. 6 acres, valued at $516, 529.
Assessed Valuation-$77, 530, 734. 00, with $3. 89 per $100 tax rate.
Financial Data-4 commercial banks. Clearings for 1954, $764,374,000.00.
Postal Receipts-$909, 011.89.
Telephones in Service-27, 428.
Churches-128, representing 24 denominations.
Industry-Chief industries of city and surrounding territory: Resort busi- ness, manufacturing, lumber and tobacco. Principal manufactured products of city and vicinity: Blankets, cotton and yard goods, flour and feed, furniture, leather goods, mica products, packing products, fine papers, printing and pub- lishing products, cigarette papers, rayon yarn, cellophane, and electronic de- vices.
Trade Area-Retail area covers 19 counties, with total population of 511, - 700.
City of Asheville, North Carolina
INTRODUCTION
Biltmore House, home of the late George Vanderbilt, at Asheville, North Carolina
Newspapers-2 dailies, combined as one paper on Sunday, and 2 weeklies. Hotels-9. Also 56 motor courts.
Railroads-Southern.
Highways-U. S. 19, 23, 25, 70 and 74, 32,100 miles of hard-surfaced roads in the state. The Blue Ridge Parkway from Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park is virtually completed from Roanoke to Ashe- ville.
Airports-The Asheville-Hendersonville Airport, located at Fletcher, south of Asheville. Handling flights of Delta, Capital and Piedmont air lines, its new terminal building houses the Strato Chef Food Bar and the Interstate Airways Communication Station of the CAA. This airport has 3 paved runways, 4, 000 feet long, and a complete lighting system for night flying. Air Traffic Control Tower. It is well equipped with 3 large hangars, licensed mechanics and in- structors, and 2 flying service operations which have training schools, air taxi service and aerial photography. The highway direction signs starting at the Langren Hotel clearly mark the route down Biltmore Ave., turning left in Bilt- more and out the Sweeten Creek Road to the airport.
Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 3, 000 persons. 7 moving- picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 5, 300 persons. Also 5 drive-in theatres. 4 golf courses.
Hospitals-3 general, with total of 526 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 public schools, including 1 senior high school, 2 junior high schools and 8 elementary schools for whites, and 1 senior high school and 4 elementary schools for Negroes. 2 parochial schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 9, 000; teachers, 330. Value of public school property, $10, - 000, 000.
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City Statistics-Total street mileage, 217, with 174 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 94; sewers, 181. Number of water meters, 20, 261; light meters, 33, 470; gas meters, 3, 356. Capacity of water works, six billion gallons; daily average use, approximately 10,000,000 gallons; flow by gravity; miles of mains, 500, value of plant, $10, 250, 000. 00. Fire department has 82 men, with 6 sta- tions and 14 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $300, 000. Police department has a force of 85 persons, with 1 station and 16 pieces of motor equipment.
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