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Salisbury
NORTH CAROLINA
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THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA PRESENTED BY
Rowan Public Library
C971.80 S16n2 1953
Mrs. W. + Rett, 60: 40 commeil. Salisbury, n. C.
This book must not be taken from the Library building.
NELSONS' BALDWIN'S
Salisbury North Carolina
City Directory
MASTER EDITION
VOLUME 31
1953
ABCD No. 8
QUALITY DIRECTORIES
PROMPT ACCURATE
CONSERVATIVE BALDWIN
CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF ALL RESIDENTS 16 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER, WITH DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING EACH; A NUMERICAL HOUSEHOLDERS' DIRECTORY AND STREET GUIDE; A CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY WITH SPECIAL LISTINGS FOR NATIONALLY ADVERTISED BRANDS, AND A COMPLETE BUYERS' GUIDE, CIVIC SECTION, A NUMERICAL TELE- PHONE DIRECTORY AND A RURAL ROUTE DIRECTORY
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UNIQUE DISTINCTIVE
ABCD A BALDWIN CITY DIRECTORY
POPULATION For SALISBURY, SPENCER AND EAST SPENCER NORTH CAROLINA 36,025
This population secured by an actual count of persons residing in territory covered by a House-to-House Canvass under Nelsons' Modern ABCD plan.
HONOR ROLL AND INDEX TO DISPLAY SPACE
Aetna Loan & Finance Co.
American Red Cross
K. W. Arthur & Son Roofing & Sheet Metal Co .- See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Aycoth's Salvage Ca .- See Special Margin Lines
Bamby Bakers, Inc .- See Back Supplement Cover and Margin Lines
Bankett Tire & Battery Co .- See Buyers Quide and Margin Lines
C. Parx Barringer-Attorney
Belk-Harry Co., Inc .- See Back Supplement Cover and Margin Lines
Bell Shoe Store
Blue Ribbon Distributing Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
L. S. Bradshaw & Sons-See Buyers Guide and Mar- gin Lines
Brockman's, Inc.
W. A. Brown & Son, Inc .- See Buyers Guide
Brown Supply Co .- See Buyers Guide and Special Mar- gin Lines
Builders Supply Co.
Max Busby-Attorney
T. K. Carlton-Attorney
Carolina Tire Co .- See Back Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Carolina Tractor & Equipment Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide
Carolina Ventilated Awning Co., Inc. - See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
J. W. Carpenter Agency
Walter Carter, Inc .- See Back Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Casper's Shoe Store
Cheerwine Bottling Co .- See Front Supplement Caver and Buyers Guide
City Electric Ca .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines City Motor Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Frank S. Cline, Realtor-Loans-See Buyers Guide
Dr. James C. Coffey, M .D.
Cohen Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Calonial Furniture House & Appliances, Inc .- See Buy- ers Guide and Margin Lines
Craige & Craige-Lawyers
Crescent Motor Co., Inc.
Delta Electric Repair-See Buyers Guide
Dixie Loan & Finance Co .- See Inside Back Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Duke Power Co .- See Inside Front Supplement Cover Earle's Office Supplies-See Buyers Guide
East Spencer Motor Co .- See Buyers Guide
East Spencer, Town of-See Buyers Guide Eastern Finance Co.
Eller-Wood Florist & Gift Shop-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Employment Security Commission
Farm Bureau Insurance
Farmers & Merchants Bank-See Buyers Guide and Mar- gin Lines
Firestone Stores
Fisher Upholstery Ca .- See Special Margin Lines
Clorence J. Fleming, Elec. Contr .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Foil Motor Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Freeman Insurance Agency, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Frank W. Fuller
Fulton Street Pharmacy-See Front Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Gable's
Gamewell Sales & Service-See Buyers Guide and Spe- cial Margin Lines
Gem Automatic Gas Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
General Insurance Agency, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Goodman Lumber Co., Inc. - See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Guyes of Salisbury-See Margin Lines
H & S Finance Co., of Salisbury, Inc.
Hardiman & Son, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
E. L. Hardin & Co., Inc.
Hardin Electric & Supply Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Hedrick Auto Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Hobson-Reynolds Co. - See Margin Lines and Buyers Guide
Home Building & Loan Assn .- See Back Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Home Oil & Coal Co., Inc .- See Frant Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Hospital Care Assn., Inc.
Hudson & Hudson-Lawyers
Innes Street Drug Co. - See Front Supplement Cover, Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Isenhour Brick & Tile Co., Inc.
Isenhour-Freeman Insurance & Realty Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
J & M Flower Shop, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Mar- gin Lines
Jacobs Auto Body Shop-See Buyers Guide
Johnson Metal Co. - See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Kester-Stewart Furniture Ca., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Frank W. Kirk-Dentist
Charles T. Kluttz-See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines Kluttz Music Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
L & S Furniture Co.
Lane's Floor Covering-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
W. H. Leonard, Jr., Jewelers-See Margin Lines Linn & Shuford
Livingstone Callege-See Buyers Guide
J. P. Mattox Insurance Agency-See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Maynard Music Co. - See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
W. M. McCulley-Agent
C. A. Mesimer, Contractor-See Buyers Guide and Spe- cial Margin Lines
Mid-Carolina Broadcasting Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Clancy Miller, Florist-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Clay R. Miller
Modern Finance Corp.
Moskin's Credit Clothing Co.
Nash Glass & Wheel Co .- See Buyers Guide and Mar- gin Lines
Newsom Jewelers-See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines Norman's Jewelers-See Buyers Guide
R. W. Norman Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Oakes Motor Co., Inc.
R. T. Odom Sewing Machine Co .- See Front Supplement Cover, Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Dave Oestreicher
Oil Products Co.
Owen-Leonard, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Parish Clothing-See Margin Lines
Geo. C. Peeler Funeral Home-See Buyers Guide and Front Supplement Cover
Peeler's Pure Oil Service-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Piedmont Broadcasting Corp .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Piedmont Radiator Works-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Pilot Loan & Finance Corp. af Salisbury
Hugh D. Pinkston Co .- See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Plyler Florist-See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines Post Publishing Co .- See Buyers Guide
Paul Propst . Tailor-See Buyers Guide
Purcell Drug Co., Inc .- See Margin Lines
Quality Oil Co. of Salisbury, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Ramsey Realty & Insurance Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Raney Motor Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Raper Bros. - Ohio China-See Buyers Guide
Pula Library
793865 Rowan
HONOR ROLL AND INDEX TO DISPLAY SPACE CONTINUED
Reliable Pawn Shop
Retoil Credit Co.
Rockwell Radio & Electric Co .- See Buyers Guide and
Margin Lines
Rowan County
Rowan Doiry, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Rowan Furniture Co .- See Buyers Guide and Special Morgin Lines
Rowan Printing Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Rowan Public Library
Rustin Furniture Co .- See Back Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Sacred Heart Catholic Church-See Buyers Guide The Scottish Bank-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Security Bank & Trust Co .- See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines and Back Supplement Cover Solisbury Business College-See Buyers Guide
Salisbury Chamber af Commerce-See Buyers Guide
Salisbury . City of-See Buyers Guide
Salisbury Floor Covering Shop-See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Salisbury Hordware & Furniture Co .- See Buyers Guide Salisbury Lumber & Supply Co., Inc .- See Back Sup- plement Cover and Buyers Guide
Salisbury Marble & Granite Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Salisbury Motor Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Salisbury Pharmacy-See Buyers Guide ond Special Margin Lines
Salisbury-Spencer Merchants Assn., Inc .- See Buyers Guide
Salisbury Sporting Goods Store, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
The Salvation Army-See Buyers Guide
Shaw Transfer Co., Inc .- See Margin Lines
Sherwin-Williams Co .- See Buyers Guide
Simpson. Peocack Co .- See Buyers Guide
Smoat Typewriter Co .- See Buyers Guide Social Security Administration
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. Southern Radio Service-See Buyers Guide
Sparks Furniture Co., Inc .- See Back Supplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Star Laundry, Inc .- See Front Suplement Caver ond Buyers Guide
Sterchi Bros. Stores, Inc.
Stoudemire Furniture Store-See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Summersett Funeral Home, Inc .- See Front Supple- ment Cover, Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Superior Oil Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Super Service Cleaners-See Buyers Guide and Special Morgin Lines
Swaringen's Bonding Agency-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
Swartz & Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines Tate Distributing Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Toylor Mattress Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Tams Drug Stare, Inc .- See Buyers Guide
Torrence Studio-See Buyers Guide
Trexler Bros, Inc .- See Front Suplement Cover and Buyers Guide
Charles O. P. Trexler - Attorney
Unian Finance Co.
U. S. Past Office
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.
Co .- See Buyers Guide and
Wagoner Construction Special Margin Lines
Wagoner Supply Co.
Walker-Mendenhall Motor Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Wallace Motor Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Wayside Furniture House-See Inside Front Supple- ment Cover, Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Geo. E. Weant & Sons-See Buyers Guide and Special Margin Lines
G. B. Weaver & Sons Electric Co .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Waad's Auto Body Works-See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Woodson & Woodson . Attorneys
Wright's Funeral Home, Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Margin Lines
Yadkin Fuel Co., Inc .- See Buyers Guide and Morgin Lines
Yadkin Hotel
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EXPLANATION
All people sixteen years or over are listed.
Wives are listed with husbands, the wife being shown in parenthesis as follows: Smith Robt R (Mary L).
The number of children under sixteen years is shown after the wife's name as follows: Smith Robt R (Mary L) 3.
The @ both in the resident directory and the householders' directory desig- nates ownership of the home.
In case of a natural widow this fact is shown with the name of the deceased husband in parenthesis, whenever possible, as follows: Smith Mary L (wid Robt R).
The occupation and place of employment are shown as follows: Smith Ro- bert R (Mary L) clk Hub Clothing Co.
The residence of each person is shown "h" denoting a householder or head of the family, "r" denoting people in the home.
Married women, engaged in some other occupation than housekeeping, are listed individually in addition to their regular listing with their husbands, as follows: Smith Mary (Mrs Robt R) bkpr Henry Jones & Co r 210 Main.
Names in heavy type denote patrons of the directory and are usually the leading firms in each line of business.
Colored is shown by a @. The publishers are very careful in using this, but do not assume any responsibility in case of error.
This directory contains all the regular departments of the modern city directory and many features used by no other publisher in the United States.
A numerical telephone directory will be found in the back of the directory listing each telephone according to number.
The classified business directory lists each firm according to line of business.
The numerical street directory lists each street alphabetically and each house according to number, with the street intersections as they appear. After each householder's name will be found his telephone number. In case he has no tele- phone the nearest telephone may be found. The @ denotes householders who own the house in which they live. By using the street guide as a mailing list, a thorough coverage of the city will be obtained without any duplication of names.
The buyers' guide carries the printed messages of the city's leading business and professional firms arranged alphabetically according to classifications.
This directory shows the approximate population and environs at the present time.
NELSONS' BALDWIN DIRECTORY COMPANY, Inc.
INTRODUCTION
Nelsons' Baldwin Directory Company, Inc., publishers of your city directory, takes pleasure in presenting the 1953 edition to the general public. A large force of trained enumerators and solicitors worked diligently in the preparation of this volume and we are confident that the result is an authentic and useful tremendous value in the building of business in the community.
We have faith in the continued growth of your city and we believe that our directory will toke its place as one of the vitol instruments for the advancement of your community. Subsequent editions will be issued promptly and regularly.
This volume is an example of the ABCD type of city directory as originated and developed by the Nelsons' Boldwin Directory Company, Inc. In the modern business world with its greatly changed sales and credit systems, the old type of directory has become completely obsolete. In adapting the directory to modern conditions the Nelsons' organization is the pioneer. The excellent city directory which your city now has is the result of the progressive spirit of this company and its accurate interpretotion of modern business requirements.
FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE BOOK
The principal ports of Nelsons' Baldwin Directory are as follows:
1. The Buyers' Guide and Civic Section is made up of the advertisements of the leading business firms of the city, announcements of churches, clubs, lodges, associations and schools, and professional cards of public-spirited law- yers, physicians and dentists. The display spaces have been carefully grouped and indexed under headings which are descriptive of the business engaged in by each firm. The Buyers' Guide, when properly arranged and distributed, is of city directory.
2. The Resident Directory contains most of the data concerning the in- dividual. The wife's name is given in parenthesis, and the number of dependents under 16 is shown as well as the ownership of homes. This is followed by position, place of employment and home address.
3. The Householders' Directory contains a complete directory of streets and avenues, properly located, gives the names of all householders arranged as they come upon the streets and avenues, indicates ownership of property.
4. The Business Directory and List of Nationally Advertised Brands con- tains the names of all business firms, professional people and non-profit organ- izations, properly classified. In this division are also listed the names of nationally advertised brands of merchandise, with the name of the local agents or dis- tributors.
INTRODUCTION
5. The Numerical Telephone Directory contains telephone numbers arranged in numerical sequence.
SPECIAL ABCD FEATURES
The following valuable information which appears in the ABCD type of directory is not to be found in the old-style city directory:
Number of dependents under sixteen;
Designation of home ownership;
Nationally Advertised Brands;
Numerical Telephone Directory;
Telephone Numbers on Street Guide.
In addition to these valuable features, the ABCD type of directory is more conservatively styled, printed on better paper and more beautifully bound, ar- ranged for more convenient use and contains a much more complete civic section. Directory stands are maintained in the business district for the use of the general public.
THE HOUSEHOLDERS' SUPPLEMENT
After including every conceivable feature which would tend to make the directory as useful and attractive as possible, the originators of the ABCD type of directory made one more bold stroke-they established a guaranteed HOME circulation for advertising matter by issuing the Householders' Supplement and delivering it to the homes of the community. Every advertisement which appears in a Nelsons' Baldwin Directory also appears in the Householders' Supplement, making the Nelsons' Baldwin Directory "America's greatest dollar-for-dollar ad- vertising medium today."
NELSONS' BALDWIN DIRECTORY CO., INC.
Salisbury, Spencer and East Spencer
1,081
3,890
3,041
1,097
1,206
1,563
3,225
161
998
1,346
1,920
738
2,335
441
308
2,088
24
1,741
3,499
1,228
40
140
289
46
36,025
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Salisbury North Carolina
"Where Location Pays An Extra Dividend"
Located 42 miles NE of Charlotte and 37 SW of Winston-Salem, on U. S. Highways 29, 52, and 70, SALISBURY is one of the finest medium- size cities in the South's Number One State, North Carolina.
Serving Rowan County's 78,000 people as county seat, Salisbury is one of a tri-cities with adjacent and contiguous population.
Recent studies of the thirty-mile radius shows a population of 310,- 040 within our primary and secondary markets. For the same radius, it is estimated there are 62,000 school-age children, excluding colleges, (1950).
Estimated consumer spendable income for 1953 is $93,048,000 (Rowan County).
New construction includes a 1,128-bed Veteran's Administration Hos- pital now erected at an estimated cost of $21,000,000; a $1,250,000 addi- tion to the Rowan Memorial Hospital; about $4,000,000 in new churches and additions to same; a $150,000 new community library; $2,500,000 in school expansion programs; a new asphalt processing plant; a new plant fusing clay and coke in a radically new process ; a new clay products plant making glazed tile, etc .; a 31,000 sq. ft. sewing plant employing 300, a 148,000 sq. ft. shipping container plant employing 175; a $1,500,000 180- unit apartment project for colored and white, and other progressive notes too numerous to list here. Salisbury is now moving at a fast pace. The city is improving its facilities and utilities, managing its finances wisely, and already shows marked improvement in several directions.
HISTORY
Salisbury and Rowan County share in the earliest history of this pro- gressive state and it is a history that the descendants of the earliest set- tlers and the people of today may well be proud to tell the world. The County was first settled in 1720 by Protestants from Moravia and a few years later, Scotch and Irish migrated here from their mother country. These were later followed in 1745 by a steady flow of Germans.
The County of Rowan was established at the session of the general assembly of the province of North Carolina on March 27, 1753. Thirty counties in Western North Carolina were later formed from Rowan Coun- ty. The first Court-the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions-met in Rowan in 1753, the same year of the organization of the county. The first court house was erected in 1756 and old records dating back as far as 1750 are still in file in the office of the register of deeds. The deed for Salis- bury Township was granted February 11, 1755, and it is a point of in- terest to note that as early as 1757 Salisbury boasted of traffic laws.
Salisbury and Rowan County were especially active during the Revo- lutionary War and in 1781 Lord Cornwallis made temporary head- quarters here. General Nathaniel Greene occupied Salisbury immediately before the arrival of Cornwallis' army. In the spring of 1791 George Washington visited Salisbury.
Near Salisbury today stands the remains of one of the South's most outstanding relics-"The Old Stone House"-a large building constructed of native granite, built somewhat in the style of a fort, and occupied by Michael Braun, the forerunner of many of the Browns in the city today.
A national cemetery is located in Salisbury in which Federal soldiers held prisoners by the Confederacy here, Spanish American War veterans and World War veterans are buried.
"Boone's Cave," where the pioneer Daniel Boone sought refuge from the Indians, is located north of the city near the Yadkin River and "Old Trading Ford" on the Yadkin River, established before the Declaration of Independence, is also north of the city.
West of Salisbury, in the graveyard of the Old Third Creek Presby- terian Church, is the modest grave of Peter Stuart Ney, well-known school teacher who came to this country from France and is believed by many to be Marshal Ney, Napoleon's "right hand" man. He was supposed to have been executed for treason to Louis XVII of France, but many be- lieve he escaped through connivance with the firing squad and then came to this country, taking up residence in North Carolina.
Andrew Jackson, at one time President of the United States, studied law in this city.
The mother of James K. Polk, eleventh President of the United States, was born and reared in Rowan County.
Mrs. Frances Christine Tiernan-Christian Reid, a writer of nation- al reputation-was a native of Salisbury. She was author of the volume "The Land of the Sky," from which Western North Carolina derives the name "Land of the Sky."
GOVERNMENT
Since 1927 the city has operated under a City Council - Manager form of government. The Council is composed of five members elected at
large. The Council elects a mayor from its own membership and appoints the City Manager, who is the administrative head of the city.
Salisbury has a municipal water system ample to supply pure water to care for the city's needs a modern sewer system and disposal plant ; efficient police department with every modern facility for the detection and prevention of crime.
The fire department has long been a source of pride to the city and through its efficiency has compiled throughout the past number of years an enviable record.
Salisbury and Rowan County has a well-organized health department, ranking among the best in the South, and now centered on W. Innes Street in a modern $285,000 building.
INDUSTRIAL
The fact that Salisbury Rowan is a manufacturing community of im- portance is evidenced by the presence of more than 106 diversified indus- tries located here, manufacturing a very wide variety of products and giving employment to approximately 17,500 employees with a total annual payroll of approximately $70,000,000.
Salisbury businesses have a highly diversified industrial structure. Soaps, combed yarns, cotton battings, shirting, furniture, wash cloths, rubber rolls, hosiery, rubber hose, rubber printing plates, lumber and millwork, florists' supplies, packing plant products, flour and feeds, pav- ing blocks, building ceramics, refrigeration equipment, beverage syrups, proprietary medicines, bakery products, castings and machine durable goods, printing and publishing, building and monumental granites, cotton and rayon finishing, and many other products and types of business help to make a rich industrial and commercial community.
Balfour Pink Granite, recognized as the hardest granite obtainable, is said to be quarried exclusively near Salisbury and has been used in the construction of monuments and buildings throughout the world.
Salisbury is located at the center of the immense system of the Duke Power Company (including power dams and steam plants), which pro- vides practically an unlimited source of power at exceptionally low rates. Anticipating demands for increased power in this area, the capacity of the Buck Steam plant has just been increased to 460,000 KW, largest in the system today.
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