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Winston-Salem^s
Premier Businesses
ATLANTIC PHARMACY
For Complete Drug Store Service
REGISTERED PHARMACIST
On Duty At All Times
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FREE DELIVERY
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Cor« 3rd and Church Sts.
PA. 5-437]
OFFICIALIZING IN
Home Cooked Meals
★ ★ ★
LINCOLN GRILL
106 E. Third Street
PA. 5-9575
ANDREW'S GUIF SERVICE
For
Fast - Courteous Service
★ ★ ★ ’
ling-Waxing-Lubrlcafion
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12(|0 E. 5th Street PA. 5-9404
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STONE AND CEMENT
CONTRACTORS
HouscrWalkways
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\ Driveways - Walls
Steps (Stone or Concrete)
Basements, New and Old
Waterproofing Basements,
New and Old.
★ ★ ★
FRANK W. MURRELL
ANaiani_
430 WeHt 24th Street
PA. 2-8756 and PA. 2-6340
GARRETT TRANSFER
COMPANY
For '
Reasonabie Reliable
And
Responsible Service
Phones: Offices: PA. 2-5044
Residence PA. 2-1086
309 Patterson Avenue '
RUFUSHAIRSION'S
DRUG STORE
A COMPLETE DRUG STORE
IN EVERY detail.
Remember Our New Location
Across The Street
Phones: PA. 2-5704 and2-9137
Third and Church Streets
A Complete Line Of
Seafoods-Fruit-Produce
★ ★ ★
★ ★ ★
OCEAN FRESH SEAFOOD
lilARKET
1402 E. Third Street
PA. 2-1674
B A R GA I N SI
We Have A
Special Sale
on
All Summer Shoes
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COMMUNITY SHOE SHOP
EXPERT SHOE REPAIR SERVICE
604 N. Patterson Ave.
•PA. 2-9167
^ THE CAROLINA TIMES — SmtmOmf, Wy tfW — S
The diversity of Negro Salem is reflected in the above business estabUshincnts run bj
operated businesses in Winsion- scenes showing four of the city’s Negroes.
IGRO BUSINESSES IN WINSTON-SALEM
Editor’s Note: Beginnini; tiiis
week Is a first in a scries of
articles on the place of the Ne
gro in the Winstun-Salem com
munity. This week’s story is de
voted to the iiistory of Negro
businesses and their achieve
ments since 1880. The period
covered between 1880 and 1947
presented a major problem to
our researchers, since during'
that time there were compiled
no records of what Negro busi-
nes.ses had been in the city. We
have been forced to rely on per
sonal interviews for the major
portion of this part of the story.
Urban League records since 1947
provides a wealth of material
for the years between 1947 and
1957.
In the late 1300’s when this
nation was in the mist of its
greatest growirig period with
new states in the West boing ad
mitted to the Union and indus
try had really begun to grasp a
good foot-hold with immigrants
coming over from Europe the
Negro was beginning to venture |
more on his own. |
According to information re-1
ceived from reliable sources, C. j
B. Cash was the first Negro to
operate a barber shop which was
for whites only in 1880. Ed Penn!
for vehicles in the year 1881. Hei
opened a Livery Stable, a place
for vehicles in the year 1881. He'
rented and sold horses and
buggies.
The towns of Salem and |
Winston long been founded o£;
course. Salem in 1766 was found!
by the Moravian.s and Winston
was found in 1849. The Mora
vians used Negroes as servants I
during the slavery period and i
they were housed in the section j
now known as the Happy Hill
Gardens (a housing project). !
Winston ajid Salem were al
ways recognized as industrial
towns. In the latter part of the
1800’s, Winston really began to
move by leaps and bounds, a?
RASKETS OF GRO|pERlES
TO BE GIVEN AWAY FRIDAY AND
SATLKDAY - WORTH $5.00
OR MORE.
A SILVER DOLLAR Will Be Given Awav
Every Hour All Day Saturday. A Complete
New Slock, (lieap As Any Place In Town. Opeii
Daily Front 9 a. m, to^ 11 p. m. AH D»v Stuulay
Except During (Church lIour!«.
MIZE GROCERY
2439 North Cherry Street
(iSext to Perry’s Shell Service Station)
Winston-Salem*, North Carolina
gordoFFs
GIN
men like R. J. Ilcynolds and the
Hanes moved in to venture into
the industrial field. Then the
southern Negro began to get a
taste of industrial and urban
life. Richard J. Reynolds afterj
starting iiis tobacco company,!
began to tap the vast supply of
Nogro labor which was the
cheapest to be found in the threo
states areas, North Carolina.
South Carolina, and Virginia.
This was due partly to the
shortage of capital that existed
in the south at that time, which
was more or less on the edge of
the Reconstruction period.
As in most cases with
pioneers, they were among the
fir.'it to enter into the industrial
tifld in a predominately agri
culture scction which wasn’t,
favored too much by its Nor-:
them industrial neighbors,
Tfi?se handicaps made the risk
greater in indu'itry; however,
these men sought what they
thought was their cheapest and
best'way of building their com
panies-.
The population of Winston
was on the increase with the Ne
groes making up just about half
of the population. With the large
number of Negroes living so
close in such a small area and in
a segregated society, they began
to realize a need for different
types of services that they
weren’t able to get from other
wurew or render to tlwiiwilmj.
Then m chflla «f
.started and dtwiMXl
n*Me» becon to fprtaic over
the town of Win«ion. SurprMng*
ly enoutfli the tr«i»i>ort»tiuii
field was the first fat th« spot*
lifht, Just «s it holds s RM^or
shwe of Uic business spotlight
today.
Georfe Fruler in 1S83 started
operating the Vrazler Orajr Line
which was a horse and bugcy
system such as cab comptmlea
I oiperate mom on ear rental ser*
' vices. This type of businesa be-
; gan to flourish since it was the
I best means of local transit ser-
’ vice in tiie horse and buggy age.
, A repair shop for this type of
I equipment bad become a must
I to keep these firms in operation.
Coloney James Timlic seeing
this need, opened the first Black-
. smith Sttop in the latter part of
1863 to be operated Ijy Negroes.
In the 'year 1884, two more
Dray Lines were formed one by
a Johne W. Lewis and another
by John E. Lewis. Business in
this field was good due to
moving the steadily increasing
population.
In 1889, the first general mer
chandise store was put into
operation by a Negro, Rufus
Clement in the vicinity of 7th
and Patterson Ave. At this time,
the Negroes were beginning to
boost quite a few businesses.
The Negroes during this
period had become accustomed
to handling money due to the
w.iges they were earning. They
began to feel as if they were meu
and their taste. for the better
things.jal life began to increase.
Long, who's first name could not
be found, sensing this desir*
within the race and a neeC
opened tlie first funeral esta'fa-
lishment for Negroes in 1891. As
his business grew over the years,
it became more than he could
handle .properly. K. Howard,
who proived to have a keen
busiiieas head, opened the second
funeral establishment in 1897,
which is stUl in operation today
under -the name of Howardr
Robinson funeral Home.
R. J. Reynolds whose TobaccOi
Company, was well established
in 1900 was said to be instrur
mental with Dr. j. W. Jones,
JMe.dical doctor, and W. A. Jones,
pharmacist, in opening the first
drug store at the S. E. Comer of
4th and Church Streets.
The year of 1901 found J. O.
Lattie catering to the pleasvir*
side of life for the, Negroes by
running an excursion from Win
ston to South Carolina.
John Anderson during the fol
lowing year, wiiich was 1902
opened the first barber shop fcv
Negroes.
full
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