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Recalling the 1950's |
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Old high school annuals serve as reminders of many things. Who our classmates were, the way we used to look, what was fashionable way back then, who was the most popular, who played sports, who belonged to what club, who the principal was, who our teachers were, and what subjects they taught. It’s fun to look back to a different life. Local businesses advertised in the back our annuals, and I thought it would be fun to list some of those that are no longer in operation. How many of these do you remember, and where were they located? I didn’t realize it until I looked through some old annuals, but addresses of most of these businesses were not included in their ads. Some came from a 1956 annual, and some from the year 1959. Winningham Service Station - Ray Bilbrey Modern Dry Cleaners Sinclair Super Service Verble Insurance Agency Williams Cash Grocery Barlow Brothers Winningham Shoe Service Mitchell and Mitchell - Grocery and Feed Store Collins Grocery Brown Insurance Agency - C. Ward Brown, Agent Stockton and Mullinix Grocery Rachel’s Beauty Lounge Myers Market Livingston Flower and Gift Shop Windle Farm Supply Livingston Locker Plant Middle Tennessee Hatchery Geneva’s Beauty Salon Averitt and Dulworth Service Station Southern Monument Company Dr. Pepper Bottling Company Wisner Auto Parts Company 7-Up Bottling Company Webb’s Electric Company Smith-Winningham Hardware Baugh’s Department Store Overton County Flower Shop General Furniture Company Marian’s Beauty Shop Carey Gore’s Service Station Livingston Dry Goods Company Brown’s Hotel Smith’s Auto Sales M.D. Pennington Grocery and Service Station Palace Barber Shoppe Beauty Shoppe Gate City Mills Ruth’s Bilbrey’s Grocery Ideal Laundry and Cleaners Martha White Bread Company Sells Barber Shop People’s Dairy Allred’s Garage Livingston Tire Service Simcox and Copeland Overton County Motor Company Davis-Norris Drug Co. Livingston Tractor and Implement Company Young’s Variety Store Livingston Dairy Mart Thurman Averitt Merchant Truck Line Holman’s Service and Grocery Gillentine’s Antiques Turner’s Department Store - Barney Seber Goolsby’s Service Station McCormick Motor Company Leslie Brothers’ Dry Goods Livingston Shirt Corporation - maker of Fordham’s high grade men’s shirts Jones’ Jewelry C & M Grill Smith-Winningham Hardware Company Eldridge Printing Company Bush’s Radio Shop Holman’s Dry Goods Jenkins & Darwin Brothers Church Street Grocery McDonald’s Grocery Eley Rexall Drugs Cedar View Inn Taylor and Holman Hunter’s Service Station B & B Grocery Smith’s Department Store
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Wallace Goolsby owned and operated this service station on West Main Street. It stood across the street from the Worley Brothers drug store is now.
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A Homecoming Parade photograph was included in a 1956 Livingston Academy annual. The cheerleaders are walking in front of the Smith-Winningham Hardware store that once operated in the building next the the Livingston post office. The sign advertising Hotpoint appliances can be partially seen at the top of the picture. The building Union Bank and Trust Company was once located in with some really nice architecture features can also be seen in the picture. A Boy Scout troup follows the cheerleaders.
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The Livingston Academy gymnasium once stood near the present day First Christian Church. It was completely destroyed by fire sometime in the late 1950's. |
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Marvin Pennington's business was once located in this building. Do you remember where it was?
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names of just some that were advertised. Most businesses that took out an
ad did not have a picture of the building, but others did. Not having a
picture makes it a little bit harder to remember just exactly where these
various stores were, but sometimes, even with a picture, the location of
the business is still uncertain. Times have changed from the days when each one of these establishments played a part in the services offered to the citizens of the Town of Livingston. Fifty years from now, many of those who are business today will no longer exist, and might possibly be remembered only through a small ad placed in the back of a Livingston Academy yearbook. Some of those who advertised that are still in business today include Union Bank and Trust Company; Overton Farmers Co-op; Livingston Limestone Co.; E.B. Gray Jewelry; Model Barber Shop; Overton County Block Company; Swallows Insurance Agency; Puckett’s Furniture and Appliances; Twin Lakes Telephone; Speck-Hyder Funeral Home; Freeman Apple Oil Co.; and the Overton Motel.
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