Yesterday's post about the alley off of Lewis Street resulted in a wonderfully informative comment from Nollie W. Neill, Jr. whose family had a business in that alley. His family's foundry was Glascock which moved to West Lee Street (Glascock Stove & Manufacturing Co.). He also wrote that a tornado on April 2, 1936 damaged and destroyed many of the buildings in the Lewis Street/South Elm area.
We'll try our luck today and post a photo of the Southside Hardware Company buildings from the back, the MLK, Jr. Drive side. The other side of the buildings faces South Elm Street, a block up from yesterday's post. For now, we can only show the signage as Google searches aren't resulting in any information. There is a Southside Hardware in High Point. Does anyone know if they are related?
Several early hardware stores are listed in the 500 block of South Elm. First reference I find at quick glance for Southside Hardware is 1897 Newspaper ad. The Southside Hardware name doesn't appear in City Directories until 1903-04 Directory, located at 525 S. Elm Street. Think they went out of business in the 1990's. Couple of the GSO Facebook history pages have discussed this hardware store in the past.
Posted by: Nollie W Neill Jr | Thursday, June 07, 2018 at 10:39 AM
Quite old fashioned!
Posted by: William Kendall | Thursday, June 07, 2018 at 04:01 PM
Did you not get my comment?
Posted by: Lowell | Thursday, June 07, 2018 at 07:12 PM