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Business Upsurge cation Arts Building. He began the city's first black bank, Forsyth Savings and Trust Company, which was located at 408 North Church Street. Charles H. Jones, the . city's first black to deal extensively in real estate, was vice president, and Frank M. Kennedy, a lawyer and notary public was the cashier. Kennedy, who served as president of Slater Institute before Simon G. Atkins returned in 1913, is the grandfather of former state Rep. Harold Kennedy, still a lawyer in the city. , Along with the bank, Hill launched People's Building and Loan Association, one of two black S&L's in the city. Dr. Atkins was president of the Twin City Building and Loan Association. In the 1920s, D* J.W. Jones, a local physician, was the prime mover behind the Citizens Bank. What is now Winston Mutual Life Insurance Company began in August, 1906. According to historian Louis Hamilton D~u-?4 , ?vi.wuvhviivi nuuci I W. Brown brought together Jones, lawyer J.S. Fitts, grocer Jim Ellington and W.A. Jones, G.W. Hill, J.W. Lewis, John A. Blume, J.C. McKnight, L.L. Johnson and Ed Smith to form the Winston Industrial Association. ? Black Grocers I * If you have any J as Allen, 504 E. 4th E.W. Armstrong, 602 E. please contact 7th thru Friday A.H. Balsey, 604 Depot . W.L. Blackburn, 709 ^ >.>, jp Depot . -: W.M. Booker, 434 Vine > V ^ _ | F.H. Burton, 1000 Trade ? / a - - ^ L.C. Carter,105 BrooksJno. Cobbs, 924 Walnut J.D. Dlggs, Columbian ^ / | G.L. Dillahunt, 951 raae 51. in" -t Jm Edwards, Belews St. || j i v JLewls Foster. Columbian George Frazer, 1105 < L.K. Gordon, Old Town I Road ' J I William Green, Wood- H land and 12th U Hampton, 712-16 Jno. Harris, 713 East _ 2n(j Inomas Hooper, Sr., one o Roger Haaser, 601 In the middle of his store ?l = -Chestnut? Thorn? Hooper, Jr., prop ? - G.W.?Hawkins, 1042 ' Trade Holland and Harm way, K.H. Hawkins, 940 Walnut St. Trade St. T.H. Hooper, 116 E. 4th W.J. Holland, IO6V2 E. J.L. Howard. 112 Rido* 4th and 201 E. 7th Ave. f ______________ I * Downtown I Thruway I Old Town I Kerners I * Clemi I * Rur< m rr.rrr nn.n .'urami?ir*w< ?< ,^nn - -^B . -ttr.-.mm/- VJ^r.-V. -Vi1 wn IP^? tum ??mm ? ton . *'? * ^ B^I'jHlH riT r *. >.... . A i. \ * from page 6 Blume was picked as the manager of the company, which experienced rapid growth. A tradesman who made a name for himself that endures to this day was George Black, the brickmaker. The story goes that Black and his brother Willie were left homeless in 1889, a few months after arriving ?r, Winston with their father. Willie told George: "We are not going to get any schooling, but we can learn a trade and people will respect us and call us Mr. Black." Black learned to make bricks byhand in a white-owned brickyard; then opened his own yard on the current site of St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church around 1910. His brick has become a favorite for restorations such as Old Salem and Colonial Williamsburg. In 1971, he was sent to Guyana to teach the people there^how to BlackT wno will be 100 this year, still lives on Dellabrook Road, the site of his last brickyard. The total roster of black businesses in the city during the early 1900s is too numerous to list. The major enterprises dealt with food. There were a dozen or more "eating houses*' in the block bound by Church Street, 3rd and ,4th Streets and i In-Winston-Sale i information about any of these gro_er the Winston-Salem Chronicle Monday from 9 to 5 p,m p.m. 722-8624. . " ' I if ^L ^H - _j^H 1 ^W ^C *JJ nB'.. mx * *?* 'V JM uJJf J *Lm. n& JT *LA^r + -*51 yMMi I4 I ^r*^ I f the more than 100 black grown In Winston - Salem, poi 6th and Depot [Patterson Avenue]. Hooper Is the father rietor of Hooper Funeral Homes. A.B. Jeffries, 313 E. 7tK~ Crawford Jones, 606 Jas Johnson, 3381/j E. Linden gth William Jones, 201 V B.F. Jones, 724 E. 2nd Hth C.H. Jones, 110 E. 4th Jno. Joyce, Baltimoi Mi ?w You've | a friend. ...a friend you ca ANYTIME! From enter Winsion-S h? you'll notice we atmosphere is tr courteous... whe sville I deposit mo youi borrow money. I our bank officer nons down-to-earth, r want you to corr again. Nowhere til Hall OUR kind of frie and sincere coni : . We're your frien .Winstc ' f 1 . . Vinstoii-Sal X * . ? 0 _ - I i &#?Vv -x- ?. 4. % _ , ., ,* .'if v- - - - it av.X MK?f;# '-^ ?^B fl WKM Hf H 4RSV^MhIIHM J.S. Hill m In 1910 I ?? ^League Grocery Co., 517 . I , E. 8th I A Robert Lowry, 1st and I M Ridge 1 M |7x J.A. McLean, 24 Shal-" I ^ lowford I P J.A. Martin, 85 ShalBr lowford I I J.T. Martin, 1123 Main I L| Robert May berry, New BP Richmond fe J.R. Miller, 201 E. 6th ji W.A. Neely, 538 Depot I S.O. Nelson, 1326 Trade ; r """ i mid-v H G.W. Penn, 608 Sycamore Penn and Watkins, 102 IW. 13th 7 ~W Albert Penry, 209 and I II George Reynolds, Bellm view PK Winston Rocker, 1046 K Trade Kt Mack Sadler, Columbian ( P# Heights | W.M. Scott, 713 Depot __ ' . ' ie*. Henry Sims, 9th and of Walnut P.T. Slade. Blumtown J .Cr Smtttr?DcpoF ^ /MpHfll Mattie Spencer, New ? ? Richmond f. S.S. Spencer, 14th and Spring e E.B. Thomas, 715 Depot West F< "The CI ;ot i A Pai n count on... ^ the moment you VwiElMl /? ? aiem savings Bank, 're different.___The ...Sii iendly and tjier you're here to r savings or to From our tellers to s, you'll find doe lice people who II >e Dack...again and else will you find ndIy, helpful service cern^_ id in Banking! m-Salem Savings lent Savings > f I 'he Chronicle, Saturday, February 10, 1979- Page 7 IFor advertising call 722-8624 JQO'S ' Pensonna ?wr?? run ihum wnhumi bvao** |??p tftflff FITS ALL DOUBLE EDGE RAZORS P \[iy l!vU?# U/j I Available at all mm ^ABWk stores in Winston-Salem alin'days for vinter savings i 1 ^*4570 \ iODERN Chevrolet Mirth and Broad Winston-Salem levy Corners" ncl77i 722*4191 o t of This I lunity's Heritage I ice 1889 I ?? " .. O _ 3fi v LEND??I ^ B ' '^1
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