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MANNING AUTO SALES
The Home Of Fine Used Cars ft Trucks
Craven County, are you tired of the rising prices and “hidden” costs found at most
new car dealers? If you are, maybe it’s time for you to get some straight facts about
automobile values and just what’s important in today’s confusing transportation
market. We’d like to introduce you to the pMple to see for straight talk and honest
values, Bobby Manning and Dave O’Geary at MANNING AUTO SALES on Hwy. 17
North in Bridgeton, phone 633-4214. They’re THE used car specialists!
With every manufacturer today cutting corners, trying to get production up and
costs down ... new car' quality is suffering. MANNING AUTO SALES is one lot
where you can still get a car or truck “built like they used to build’em”! Every vehicle
that comes in is inspected and reconditioned before it goes on the lot and the result is a
better, more reliable car than you’ll pay $12,000 for today.
Sounds too goo to be true? There’s only one way to find out for yourself, and that is
drop in at MANNING AUTO SALES and look over their lot full of values.
We, the editors of this 1983 Business Review, urge all our readers, if you don’t like
the prices of new cars today, then see MANNING AUTO SALES, they might have
exactly what you’re looking for!
RANKIN TIMBER COMPANY
Buyers ft Sellers Of Timber ft Pulpwood
In every agricultural region of the United States there is always one firm that
stands strong like the giant oak in the framework of the community.
The people in this section of Eastern North Carolina are indeed fortunate to have in
their midst a locally owned and operated concern like RANKIN TIMBER
COMPANY, located at 4606 Country Club Rd. in New Bern, phone 637^9166.
For many years. RANKIN TIMBER COMPANY has aided significantly in the
economic advancement of this entire area. They are buyers and sellers of standing
timber and pulpwood.
Because of the confidence with which local businessmen and farmers trade with
them, RANKIN TIMBER COMPANY has continued to be one of the more important
assets of our community. Their unquestioned integrity, crediability and devotion to
customers, coupled with distinguished fair trade practices, have built a reputation
for them that will linger in the minds of people throughout the area for years to come.
We, the editors of this 1983-84 Business Industrial Review, salute RANKIN
TIMBER COMPANY as a model of the American free enterprise system and
unconditionally declare that there is no firm in this entire review more worthy of
extended mention than this one.
GENERAL WHOLESALE
BUILDING SUPPLY
Your One-Stop Building Supply Center
Eversrthing For Building From The Ground Up To
Completion • Including Ready Mixed Concrete
And Concrete Blocks
New Bern’s best known Building Supply Center is
GENERAL WHOLESALE BUILDING SUPPLY,
specializing in quality materials and service for all
types of building needs, and when you stop in, you
won’t be disappointed!
Located for your convenience on Highway 56 West in
New Bern, phone 638-6861, this established firm who
has served the area for over 3/4 of a century specializes
in kinds of service which keeps people coming back
again and again and telling their friends. It’s this
person to person recommendation that has earned
GENERAL^ WHOLESALE BUILDING SUPPLY
their position as the local leader in building supplies.
Stop in today and see what we mean for yourself!
You can phone 638-6861 to place your order. They
carry plumbing and electrical supplies, insulation,
bathroom fixtures, lawn and garden tools, paneling,
prehung doors and windows, lumber, siding, doors,
plywood, cabinets, paint, roofing materials, sheet rock,
flooring, roof trusses and much, much more.
GENERAL WHOLESALE BUILDING SUPPLY
combined with Stevenson Brick and Block Ready Mix
Concrete is Eastern Carolina’s most complete building
supply center.
The authors of this 1983 Review urge all of our
readers to make GENERAL WHOLESALE
BUILDING SUPPLY their first choice for building
supplies. You’ll be glad you did!
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Spotlight
THE FLAME
USDA Choice Steaks - Prime Rib - Lobster
Jerry ft Brenda Anderson - Owners ft Operators
When the people of this area sit back and relax in
comfortable friendly surroundings to enjoy a mouth
watering, taste tempting meal, they are probably
sitting in the pleasant surroundings of THE FLAME,
located at 2303 Neuse Blvd. in New Bern, phone 633-
0262.
THE FLAME is known in this area as the finest
restaurant to eat a delicious USDA choice steak
prepared exactly the way you want it, and served with
all the trimmings. From prime rib to lobster to the
area’s finest salad bar. THE FLAME draws lovers of
fine food for many miles around.
When Jerry and Brenda Anderson decided to open,
they had one primary goal in mind, and that was to
offer people of this area the finest food, served among
friendly people in a pleasant atmosphere, and always
with the best service in town. The fact that they have
achieved just exactly that is evidenced by the ever
returning number of people that have made THE
FLAME their number one place to dine.
As editing staff of this 1983 Business Review, we’re
proud to have this opportunity to recommend this
outstanding restaurant to our many readers. Eat here
just one time, and you’ll see what,wemean! - .
West Craven Hlahllghts, December IS. 19B3. Page 13
CRAVEN COUNTY HOSPITAL
“Staffed With Skill - Run With Compassion”
Dedicated to providing the finest medical care that modern science is capable of,
CRAVEN COUNTY HOSPITAL is well known as a major factor in the growth and
development of the entire region. This respected hospital has been prominent in
caring for the health of local residents for over 20 years now, and is widely acclaimed
for its staff of family physicians and specialists in many fields.
CRAVEN COUNTY HOSPITAL is located at 2000 Neuse Boulevard in New Bern,
phone 633-8111 in emergency. They will give you proper attention and professional
service.
Here the best of medical and surgical skill can be obtained at a moment’s notice.
When it is necessary to be under the care of a physician with attending nurses, think
of this respected hospital.
Every effort is made here to provide the best possible care and attention. The value
of CRAVEN COUNTY HOSPITAL is being appreciated by more people every year.
The family at home is relieved of a heavy burden knowing the patient is removed
from the confusion that descends upon a home in the time of sickness, and thereby
stands a better chance of quickly regaining health and strength.
The editors of this 1983 Review suggest this Review would not be complete without
prominent mention of this outstanding hospital, their President John McDaniel, and
the many professionals who make it up!
MASTER POOLS BY NEW BERN
POOL & SUPPLY CO
Master Pool Builder - Jack Trabucco - Owner
Craven County, would you like to be able to go swimming anytime you walked out of
your door? It’s possible, you know, by simply callingrthe experts at MASTER POOLS
BY NEW BERN POOL & SUPPLY CO. at Highway 70 East in New Bern, phone
637-2267, and making arrangements for having a custom built pool installed on your
property, you can spend the entire year i‘elaxing in cool comfort while your property
value takes a gigantic step upward!
Jack Trabucco, your Master Pool builder, is prepared to show you the very latest
designs in beautiful pools! There are sizes, shapes and styles to fit into any landscape
AND any budget. They can handle any application from residential to commercial
and any kind of pool from concrete to vinyl to acrylic. Jack can handle
EVERYTHING from design and initial planning to expert construction to service
and yes, even maintenance. You’ll be taken care of in style when you do business with
MASTER POOLS BY NEW BERN POOL ft SUPPLY CO.
Plan now to contact this leading pool builder and start eitjoying your new
swimming pool very soon! As the editors of this 1983 Business Review, we think youll
get a lifetime of healthful enjoyment from that one phone call!
FINES MEN’S SHOP
Quality Men’s Fashions
It hardly seems possible that anyone who
appreciates fashion is not aware of FINES MEN’S
SHOP in New Bern. For years now, FINES MEN’S
SHOP has supplied fashion leadership to this area, and
they seem to get better every day.
. Ibe store itself has a special uniqueness, a certain
charm that puts you at ease the moment you enter its
doors. What is most impressive is that hot only do you
see the most famous names in fashion represented, but
youll find clothes at moderate price points, too, all
with the same high level of taste.
The extra bonus is the people there. The
management is committed to personal service that
you just don’t believe exists anymore and you’ll find
everyone quickly becomes a partner and friend in
selecting your wardrobe needs, whether it be casual
handsome sweaters or that suit for that special
occasion.
Featuring a complete selection of men’s clothing,
FINES MEN’S SHOP caters to all. For the
businessman, they offer slacks, sportshirts, sweaters,
sport coats all by famous designers. Matching
accessories are featured, and those little things that
will enhance your appearance are also available in one
convenient shop. Tijey feature expert tailoring and
alterations to give your new sport coat or slacks that
“homemade” appearance. You’ll love the selection and
the service and your bank cards and lay-a-ways are
welcome.
We’re sure you already know all this, but for those of
you who have not yet had the pleasure, do yourself a
fashion favor and go shopping the way you always
thought it should be; at FINES MEN’S SHOP in New
Bern at 617 Twin Rivers Mall, open daily Monday
through Saturday from 10:00 to 9:00, phone 638-9160.
As editors of this 1983-84 New Bern Business
Review, we’re proud to recommend FINES MEN’S
SHOP.'Withother.business leaders jn New.Bern!,