This is from a 1946 telephone book. Note you can get war training here, plus fountain and lunch room service.
Vrooom!
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Monthly Archives: September 2023
New Car Dealers – 1964
This is from a pamphlet for the Dobyns-Bennett Band. Check out the imports: Vauxhall (it’s misspelled), Opel, Renault (which we pronounced re-nalt, not re-no). Pretty good for ’64!
First National Bank
Brooks Circle? Yes, there was a Pal’s there and the Pot O’ Gold, owned, I believe, by Oakwood Market. There was an Upper Circle, too. It had, among other things, the Garb…er, Garden Basket store.
Eastman Playing Card
My buddy, He Who Finds Stuff Where I’ve Already Looked, dug this deck of cards up at an estate sale. The box is pretty worn and the cards have been played a lot, but it’s still in fairly good shape. Judging from the Joker design, the deck was made by Cartamundi, which had a presence in Kingsport from 1996 to 2007.
Books on Kingsport
Four books and a pamphlet about Kingsport: (l to r) Kingsport: A Romance of Industry, by Howard Long. 1928 (Sevier Press); the Rotary Club 1937 green book of Kingsport with forward by J. Fred Johnson; the Rotary Club 1946 blue book of Kingsport with forward by C.P. Edwards, Jr.; the Rotary Club 1951 beige book of Kingsport with forward by William F. Freehoff, Jr.; and The Early Years on Bays Mountain, by Muriel Millar Clark Spoden. 1975 (privately printed). Except for the pamphlet on Bays Mountain history, these books are quite similar, most taking their lead from the Long book.
In my opinion, the best book about modern Kingsport’s history is Margaret Ripley Wolfe’s “Kingsport Tennessee A Planned American City” (1987, University of Kentucky Press), which I’ve commented on before.
Bob Lawrence's Kingsport 