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 GASTONIA FAMILY ALBUM 

 Snapshots and Group Photographs with Recognizable Gastonia Backgrounds 

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Rev. Earl Armstrong's Gospel Tabernacle, located on West Airline Avenue just west of the intersection with North Trenton Street, circa 1940. 

      Scenes from home movies of St. John's Methodist Church (now Myers Memorial United Methodist Church), South New Hope Road, in the mid-1950's.
      (Courtesy of Deb Lewis Erwin.)
      In the background can be seen houses that once stood on South New Hope Road as well as the terminal of Akers Motor Lines (the location of Gastonia's Richway and original Target store). 

      TRENTON MILL VILLAGE YOUNG PEOPLE IN WEST MAIN AVENUE C. 1940. HELEN GLOVER ON FRONT ROW. NEXT CAME SEARS AND THE HOLIDAY INN; NOW THE FUSE BALLPARK.

          FROM  AN EMAIL MESSAGE
          "My mother was an English teacher at Gastonia High School from 1941 to 1947. Her name then was Miss Lena Sink. Early on she lived at 815 S. York St. & later at the Armstrong Apartments [later known as the Marietta Apartments]. She met my dad there in 1946 who was in the Air Force & stationed in Charlotte. My mother taught high school for 39 years and she was 95 years old when she died. Here are pictures. I'm her son, Ralph Proto." 

          A Gastonia Gazette clipping featuring the 1910 Cadillac once owned by textile pioneer George W. Ragan as it passed Marietta Street on Franklin Avenue in the Grand Cotton Festival parade, June 1941. Note in the background the former home of  Mrs. E. C. Wilson and an Amoco service station that had built in its front yard. Both were demolished for the erection of the National Bank of Commerce building in 1956. (Click button to see more about the Wilson home and the National Bank of Commerce building. See Robert Ragan's book, The Textile Heritage of Gaston County, North Carolina, 1848-2000 for the story of the Festival.) The Grand Cotton Festival was held 1938-1941 and again in 1946 after World War II to showcase the area's textile manufacturing industry and to celebrate the emergence from the Great Depression. (Submitted by Deb Lewis Erwin.) 

          NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE STORY

          Roy Davidson and his sisters at their home on South Vance Street beside the Loray Mill circa 1924.
          (Submitted by Deb Lewis Erwin.) 

            Cocker Machine and Foundry Company's baseball  team at East School (Ozark Avenue) circa 1940. (Submitted by Deb Lewis Erwin. Her uncle, Roy Davidson, is standing second from left.) 

            Timmy Ellis in front of his home at 111 South Clay Street on Easter Sunday 1956.
            He is standing in the middle of Clay Street with the National Guard Armory behind him across Franklin Avenue. 

              Page from Textiles Review (published by Textiles Incorporated, later known as TiCaro) featuring the second shift spinning department of the Myrtle Mill (Bessemer City Road) around the mid 1950's. Submitted by Lana Shaw. Her uncles, Efton and England James are included in the lower photo. 

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