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Kingsport Post Cards Part 2

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T.J. STEPHENSON CARDS  (1920s)  ALL WERE PRINTED BY TICHNOR IN CAMBRIDGE MA AS “TICHNOR QUALITY VIEWS”

121020  –

121021 –

121022  –

121023  KINGSPORT BRICK CORPORATION, SHOWING TILE AND BRICK PLANTS KINGSPORT, TENN.

121024 COUNTRY CLUB AND GOLF LINKS, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121025 TENNESSEE EASTMAN CORPORATION, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121026 CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, WATAUGA AND SEVIER STREETS, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121027 THE FAMOUS ROTHERWOOD FARM AT THE JUNCTION OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH FORKS OF HOLSTON RIVER

121028 “A BUSY CORNER,” KINGSPORT, TENN. CLINCHFIELD PORTLAND CEMENT CORP. IN FORE-GROUND.

121029 C.C.& O. RAILROAD PASSENGER AND FREIGHT STATIONS, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121030 MEADE FIBRE CORPORATION, PULP MILL AND FINISHING PLANT, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121031 A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF KINGSPORT, TENN., FROM “THE CEMENT HILL”

121032 THE KINGSPORT INN, BROAD AND SULLIVAN STREETS, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121033 BROAD STREET, FROM MAIN STREET, LOOKING NORTH, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121034 THE HOMESTEAD, SULLIVAN AND CLAY STREETS, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121035 SHELBY APARTMENTS, SHELBY STREET, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121036 COMMUNITY “Y,” CENTER AND SHELBY STREETS, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121037 CORNING GLASS WORKS (SOUTHERN DIVISION), KINGSPORT, TENN.

121038 THE KINGSPORT PRESS, WHERE BOOKS ARE MADE, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121039  –

121040 KINGSPORT HOSIERY MILLS, KINGSPORT, TENN.

121041 –

121042 THE CIRCLE – BAPTIST, PRESBYTERIAN AND METHODIST CHURCHES, KINGSPORT, TENN.

 

  1. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee White border

4844-N Kingsport, Tenn. From Holston Heights – 1  (written in pen on back: March 16, 1936 Trip to Kingsport, Tenn.  333 mile trip)

Same but with 1929 post mark

– 2

– 3

4852-N Dobyns-Bennett High School, Kingsport, Tenn. – 4 (color)

4852 Same, but linen and b&w w/ blue overprint and a different style back

4857-N First National Bank, Kingsport, Tenn. – 5

11414 Borden Mills, Kingsport, Tenn. – 6

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11514 The Circle, Kingsport, Tenn. – 8  (one has a 1933 post mark, one is linen finish, b&w w/ blue tint, 1948 post mark)

11515 The Homestead, Kingsport, Tenn. – 9 1940 post mark (one is a collotype, one is linen finish)

391 Tennessee Eastman Corporation, Kingsport, Tenn. – 10 (one is blue tint linen, one is Collotype 391N – card is damaged)

404 Post Office, Kingsport, Tenn. – 11  linen

404N New Post Office, Kingsport, Tenn. – 11 (different view of building)

2572N Office Bldg., Kingsport Utilities, Inc., Kingsport, Tenn. – 12   1955 post mark from Sparta, Wisconsin

Kingsport Post Cards, Part 1

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Over the next few days, I’ll be posting the information I’ve scrounged up after 20 or so years collecting Kingsport postcards.  I’m not an avid collector, but I hoovered up as much as I could. So, here we go with Part 1. (comments encouraged)

Kingsport Drug Store issue   C.T. Doubletone  (Curt Teich/Chicago)  inventory number puts printing date as 1917 for all of these. White Border  These were given to me by Sherry Weaver (wife of Phil) with the stipulation that I give these to the Kingsport Archives when I no longer want them.

AD-7654  HOTEL KINGSPORT, KINGSPORT, TENN.

AD-7656 CLINCHFIELD PORTLAND CEMENT CORPORATION PLANT, KINGSPORT, TENN.

AD-7659 KINGSPORT EXTRACT CORPORATION, KINGSPORT, TENN.

AD-7660 VIEW OF KINGSPORT, TENN.

AD-7661 KINGSPORT BRICK CORPORATION PLANT, KINGSPORT, TENN.

AD-7663 VIEW SHOWING PART OF FEDERAL DYE STUFF & CHEMICAL CO. PLALNT, KINGSPORT, TENN.

AD-7667 BIRD’S EYE VIEW, KINGSPORT, TENN. APRIL 1916

 

Asheville Post Card Company   circa 1921    Printed by Curt Teich of Chicago Commercialchrome.    White Border

N = reprint

54952 – Extract Plant and Tannery, Kingsport, Tenn.

54953 –

54954 –

54955 –

54956 – Plant of Kingsport Pulp Corporation, Kingsport, Tenn.  /note: postmark 1921 Winston-Salem NC/

54957 – Methodist Church, Kingsport, Tenn.

54958 –

54959 – Apartment Houses, on Shelby and Sullivan Sts., Kingsport, Tenn.

54960 – Broad St., looking northeast from C C. & O. R. R. Station, Kingsport, Tenn.

54961 –

54962 – Dolans Gap, on Bays Mountain, Showing Dam & Lake of Kingsport Utilities, Inc. Source of City Water Supply. Seven Miles from Kingsport & 600 ft. above Town, Kingsport, Tenn.

54963 – Plant of Kingsport Hosiery Mills, Inc., Reedy Street, Kingsport, Tenn.

54964 –

54965 –  Kingsport Brick Corpn., Brick Yard, Showing Kilns, Kingsport, Tenn.

Separate issue, Asheville Post Card Company printed by Curt Teich of Chicago C.T. American Art    White Border

R-86618 – Broad Street, Kingsport, Tenn. /note: “K-5” written in ink front center top/

R-86619 – Community “Y”, Center and Shelby Streets, Kingsport, Tenn. /note: “K-14” written in in front center top/

 

Shelby Street Apartments

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Early morning, sometime around 1925.  It’s another T.J. Stephenson card…I’ve posted information about him here.  (Nothing special on the back, except the inventory number of 121035…the lowest number of these cards I have is 121023 and the highest is 121042.  It’s a Tichnor Quality Views card)

I think these were all residential then.  When I delivered papers down this street in 1957, there were several businesses along the way.  Whenever I catch the smell of kneaded erasers, my memory escorts me back to an art supply store about halfway down the street.  I’ve mentioned before that my dream was to have all the illustration board I wanted.  Got there.  Did that.

Oh, look, Ma!  No antennas on Bays Mountain.  Obviously.

Sobel’s

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I thank Carl Swann for this item.  Its age is indeterminate.  The “Sobel’s The Men’s Store” appears to have been hot stamped onto the shoehorn. “Shoehorn” is an old word, dating back to the late Middle Ages, as a “schoying horne” (it’s all in Wikipedia)…a “horn” in the sense of a tool to help put on a shoe.  There were various sizes (long ones for boots); this one is 3.5″ long.

Nunn Bush shoes are still distributed by Weyco in Wisconsin…Weyco is essentially a Florsheim operation since 1964.  Weyco claims a founding date of 1892.  Nunn Bush was established by Henry LIghtfoot Nunn in 1912.  I don’t know what happened to Bush.  I can’t find a reference.  Really, his middle name was “Lightfoot”?  Too punny.

When I was in the Air Force, we had the opportunity to purchase Florsheim dress shoes.  For whatever reason, most all of us had gone back to our Government-issue shoes in six months or so.  The Florsheims just didn’t hold up well (this was back in the mid-60s).

Trading Stamps – The Fever

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If you wish to brush up on your history of S&H Green Stamps, head over here,  Otherwise, read on about K-Savers trading stamps.


This is the book you’d stick your K-Savers stamps in, all notated (as far as I know) as worth 25 units of something.  The book is 3-3/4″ by 5-7/8″.  The stamps, shown below, each measure 1/2″ x 1-7/8″.
In the 1950s, Oakwood Markets, dating from the late 40s, was seeing a bubbling up of Green Stamp Fever, fed by market competitor Giant Supermarkets.  Figuring to find a parade and get in front of it (a favorite suggestion of Don Raines, my former boss), Wallace Boyd, one of the founders of Oakwood Markets, started Tennessee Stamp Company and began to spread K-Saver stamps across their multiple locations (11 or so in the 70s).  K-Savers had a catalog and a brick-and-mortar store at 813 Eastman Road – the site, next to Sloopy’s, is now home to a gas station.

   

Inside front cover, showing part of a stamp page, and inside of the back cover.

1157 Eastman Road was the location of the Oakwood Market in Greenacres Shopping Center. And note there are none of the legal conditions (you don’t own the stamps!) that S&H put on the back cover of their redememption booklets.

 

WKPT Studio

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I’m taking a chance here, but I think this was taken before the fire that severely damaged the WKPT studios.  I don’t recognize the studio configuration or that strange wall treatment.

I didn’t have any luck tracking down when Pilgrims Songs sheet music was published, but the microphone is a Western Electric 639 or so, made in the late 1930s (after 1941, it would have been branded as an Altec).  This mike, or one like it, was still around when I was at WKPT.  People had their preferences as to the setting.  I liked cardioid and got fussed at one time for switching it.  Today, these mikes are selling for around $600 to $800 on ebay.

There is nothing of interest on the back of this card…no publisher, no photographer attribution.  Annoying.

WKPT Ad

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This 5-column, 3/4-page ad ran on July 21, 1968, in the Kingsport Times-News.  I found it when I was going through an old scrapbook.  Look!  Not a syndicated show in sight; although, the stations did run some NBC and religious programming on the weekends.

I always liked the NBC logo.  The microphone is a stylized RCA 44-BX (bi-directional).  The WKPT-AM studios used these, since the installation of the equipment after the fire* was supervised by NBC.

*The WKPT studios burned on September 7, 1948, according to the Kingsport Times-News (I misread that date. It was 1946.  When I enlarged the page, I saw that it was a “6”, not an “8”, but it was a kind of skeevy 6, at that).  The new studio, with all new equipment, opened in ’48.

Eastman ISO Plus Nutritional Supplement

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This really has to do with Eastman in Rochester, but the key fob and key ring were found at a flea here, so let’s check it out.

The patent office shows that Eastman was granted a patent for this ISO Plus Nutritional Supplement, apparently for those of the bovine persuasion, in 1983, the first known date for the commercial use of this product.  As of 1992, however, the patent is shown as “Continued use not filed within grace period, un-revivable”.

Perhaps it just didn’t work out.

Another First Baptist Church Postcard

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This is postmarked 1956.  It was published by Blackburn News Agency.  The company was located on Boone Street, started in 1945 by Joseph D. Blackburn and his wife, both former school teachers in Charlotte.  In 1960, they were servicing over 200 newsstands in the area with paperbacks and, obviously, postcards (Kingsport Times-News).  It was printed by Curt Teich in Chicago.

Blackburn had a series of postcards of Kingsport.  This is noted as B-27.