At this time, the Kingsport Moose Lodge was located on Reservoir Road, in a location now crossed by I-26. Its food and natatorium were much admired. In 1985, law officers raided the place and confiscated several slot machines.
On the back of this money clip, the logo “HIT”-USA is debossed. That company, as far as I can tell, is still doing business on line as Hit Promotional Products.
This is a very old sign. The building on which it was painted, at 313 East Sullivan Street, was built in 1920. When I was a kid, it was Brown’s Custom Shop.
THE PEOPLE’S STORE
GROCERIES & MEATS
I’m not sure about that ampersand.
Southeast Airlines, an E. Ward King enterprise, was a short-lived commuter line that flew out of Tri-Cities in the late 1950s
For a brief wrap up of the King legacy, check this site
Here’s link to story of the horrific crash on Holston Mountain
This is a soda/beer bottle recapper with the handy-dandy bottle neck loop so the cap won’t get lost. It was made by Replicap Products, Inc. of Greenville OH. As far as I can tell, they were quite active up until the mid-80s or so. I don’t find any current listing for them.
A couple of items bobbed up at an area flea market mall.
About 5.5″ long. Blank on the other side. Sturdy, by golly.
This store was located in a row of shops that has long been demolished. It was on the land now occupied by a car washing operation. Kent Potts owned the store. The Jarman shoe brand is still being made, but the company in Nashville is now known as Genesco.
There has been discussion about whether this was Rice or Hord Mill, but, make no mistake, it’s Gone Mill now. My buddy and I carefully walked around this mill in 2014 and were surprised at how well it had survived.
No more. I’ve heard what happened to it, but I can’t verify the story.
Cherokee Post Card Company in Jefferson City appears to have been doing chromes of East Tennessee sometime in the 1960s.
Volunteer State Printing Company, assumed from the monogram, yields no citations.
This card is postmarked Dec. 7, 1943. Two years to the day after Pearl Harbor. By this time in the war, we were raining death on the cities of Cittavecchia and Pescara, Italy, among other unlucky locations.
Three months later, Mussolini would fall from power as the Italians felt their part of the war was lost.
The card is shown as being published by Asheville Post Card Company, but it was printed by Miller Art Company in Brooklyn…which went out of business in 1941 (1922 – 1941).
Consider: this card may have been printed around the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. <sneak in weird music> Strange, but true, maybe.
C. T. C. was Kingsport’s city bus company.
This post card was printed in 1950, as shown by the Curt Teich date code. On the apron are DC-3s from American Airlines and Piedmont. American would fly away from the airport two years later, but Piedmont would hang in there for the duration.
Courtesy of Carl Swann.
Heritage Federal Savings and Loan Association, 110 East Center Street, started out in 1930 and meandered on until 1981, when somebody kicked off a flurry of acquisitions (read all about it here). It officially lost the name in 1995 when it was acquired by First American National Bank, now part of Regions Bank.
The logo, which is partially cut off in this shot, is a symbolic Minuteman haloed by, guess what, 13 stars. Heritage, get it?
One snowy evening, around 1957 or 1958, as I was sloshing my way down to the library, which was then on the corner of East Center and Shelby Streets, I saw Martin Karant doing a live remote in the big window at Heritage Federal. He was soliciting money for some organization. I walked in and volunteered to help (I was quite young at the time). I stood outside, in the snow, for a half hour or so and offered a canister for people to put coins in. In those years, there were quite a few people out walking around downtown in the evenings, shopping and so forth.
Check this out:
This is from 1979, just a year or so after Bic introduced the disposable razor in the US market. So, it probably seemed a good idea for a giveaway item, maybe.
Any corporate legal department would clutch their pearls at this now…
It’s a standard, 4″ size.
Bob Lawrence's Kingsport 