The Trade Winds Motel and Restaurant “New in 62”. It was located about .33 mile west of the railroad bridge over 23 between Weber City and Gate City. The lettering on the building is difficult to read, but the center panel seems to read “Dutch Boy Grill”. I remember a Dutch Boy drive-in restaurant beside Munal Clinic (built in 1951) on what was then known as the Johnson City Highway, but I have no idea if this is associated with that one. I find the motel listed in the 1983 Kingsport telephone directory, but lose it after that.
Charles Dean Dalton ran the business early on, but, by the time this picture was taken, in 1962, Clyde and Garland Smith owned it. If you look closely, you’ll see the telephone number is listed as CA 5-8541. Oops. People, you have to proof read anything that comes from a printer before it goes to press. That should be CI(rcle) 5-8541.
I worked for Garland Smith at the Dutch Boy in Weber City. From what I was told during my employment there Garland also owned the one in Kingsport as well.
He did. It was on the Johnson City Highway, about where Pal’s is now, just east of Eastman Road.
Actually, that phone number was correct. That portion of Scott County between the state line and the North Fork of the Holston River had the 225 exchange of the 615 area code. This should not be confused with the Circle prefixes of 245 through 247 used in Kingsport.
Thank you for the information! Good to know!
I failed to notice the first time I read this post that you had confused the location of the Trade Winds Motel with the old Scott Motel, which was located just west of the railroad trestle in Moccasin Gap. That building has finally been torn down. The Dutch Boy/Trade Winds buildings are located on the south bank of the North Fork of the Holston River in Weber City.