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Hey All,Thank you all so much for your help and replies. Documenting the history of Wilkes on DVDs for our future generations is so important since we are slowly loosing our veterans in Wilkes.Hopefully, some of you or someone in your family may be able to answer this, do any of you know how the places listed below got their names?This is a concentration on the North area of Wilkes. We'll need help for others places later. You can post your response here or call 838-6114 or 838-6289 and ask for Fay Byrd.Gristle Tail in TraphillSpringfield � TraphillLongbottomAustinHaysMaple GroveOak RidgeCane CreekDehartDockeryDouble CreekJoynes SchoolKnotvilleWhittington SchoolRoaring GapWalnut GroveMcGradyFairplainsDon't forget that we need pictures of old schools, mills, businesses, and churches with a bit of information. Need to get to Fay Byrd at these pickup points: Wilkes Community College Library; Jordan Welborn at Wilkes County Public Library, or at county office building with Aileen Faw.

I've heard tales about the Ideal Grill.Bob K's is a new one on me.Send any scanned pictures to [email protected].

Bob K�s and The Ideal Grille and a small grocery store used to be located where the Library is now. I have a photo of the site before the changes in my restaurant. I might even have a scanned copy on file. If anyone would like to see it pm me and I'll look for it. If I can't find it you can come by my place and see it for yourselves, I have old school pics of NW all over my walls.

Wow, I enjoyed looking at all those old pictures, of course I wasn't even thought of when those pictures were took, but it's always neat to see how things were before I was born...LOL...thanks for sharing that link Melissa

I have a cousin, I cannot remember his first name, he was a Church. He owned a lumber yard in Wilkes and a large store; there's actually a painting of downtown Wilkes and his store is shown. I read somewhere that he actually was the man that pushed for the Baptist Church in North Wilkesboro be built. He supplied building materials and a work force because he felt that a new town needed a church. His picture hangs in the old Wilkes Jail because he was also once sheriff. Need anymore stories just ask, I have tons.

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Anything below is going to be ugly............======Descendants of John Calloway Pruitt1 John Calloway Pruitt b: 28 Dec 1889 in Wilkes Co, NC d: 19 Mar 1976 in Wilkes General Hospital, Wilkes Co, NC+Amanda Ethel Cleary b: 29 Aug 1891 in Alleghany Co, NC d: 08 Jan 1994 in Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co, NC2 Cora Pruitt b: 1909 +FNU Higgins *2nd Husband of Cora Pruitt: +FNU Rhodes 2 Soloman Clarence Pruitt b: 16 Nov 1911 in Wilkes Co, NC d: 07 Oct 2000 in N Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co, NC+Grace Livingston b: 30 Dec 1910 d: 31 Dec 1998 in Wilkes Co, NC3 Mildred "Mickey" Pruitt +Carmen Mancusi b: 10 Apr 1927 in Brooklyn, ???, NY d: 13 Dec 2005 in N Wilkesboro, Wilkes, NC4 Anthony Mancusi 4 Debbie Mancusi +Jeff Mitc**** 2 Ruth Pruitt b: 1915 +FNU Lenderman 2 Albert Clinton Pruitt b: 1917 in Wilkes Co, NC d: 03 Jun 2003 in Hubert, Craven Co, NC+Ada Sue Higgins 3 Polly Pruitt b: Aft. 1935 +FNU Renninger 2 Esther Flossie Pruitt b: 28 Jul 1920 in Wilkes Co, NC d: 28 Jun 2003 in Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co, NC+Dewey Commodore Bell b: 07 Nov 1898 in Springfield, Wilkes Co, NC d: 04 Apr 1987 in N Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co, NC*2nd Husband of Esther Flossie Pruitt: +James Johnson b: 04 May 1920 in Wilkes Co, NC d: 20 Oct 1993 in N. Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co, NC2 Hampton Jack Pruitt b: 1929 in Wilkes Co, NC +Betty LNU 3 Jackelyn Ann Pruitt b: 1953 +Vick Cox 4 Beth Cox 4 Wesley Cox 4 Caroline Cox 3 Joey Marvin Pruitt b: 1955 +Sue LNU 4 Joey Pruitt, Jr. +Mariah LNU 4 Jessica Pruitt 3 Jenesa Pruitt b: Aft. 1955 +John Styron 4 Stephanie Styron 4 Amanda Styron

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Melissa......Ask Fay Byrd if she has access to the history collections of thelate J.J.Anderson. He had a treasured accumilation of just aboutanything anyone would want to know about Wilkes County.

Wow!!!!!!!I forgot the move after 10th Street.Why did they move off Main Street after that???? RentTooHigh?

The Goodwill was where the new library is. It burned down and the moved to where Ebenezer's is. Later it moved up to KMart.

There will be a book it will be out by the 1 / 9 /07 . The first TV come out in wilkes in 1949 it will be in there i put it in it
"Home Town Memories Books">>>>

Nutboy, I've been sitting here trying to remember what was originally where the Library is now.....but my mind too has gone blank. Maybe it's because we weren't allowed on 10th street....lol.

Oh gosh, now you've brought up some memories for me too. I remember in 1953, we were still living in Boone and we came down the mountain and bought our first TV from Swoffords. I can remember how excited I was. We were the only ones on our street that had a tv and I too remember how the neighbors used to "swarm" in at night to watch it. LOL, had not thought about that in years. Thanks for the memories.

I have the orignal paper work for the Daniel Boone wagan trail. The one people had to sign to ride in it. I aslo have some other papers.

I moved here in 1975.So, pretty much anything before that....I learned by "listening".

Goodness, I am old. I remember when the old library was the Post Office.

The name of the "dime store" was Cress Ben Franklin Stores, a rival at the time to Roses. The Allen Theater was owned by Frank Allen, Jimmy, Frank, and Mickey Allen's father. Joe Johnston of Community Grocery fame on Hinshaw Street and 6th Street used to sell tickets there when I was a kid before it burned down.

I can't remember what was located in the spot where the new library is located, but do remember it when it was accross from the origional Lowe's Hardware building.

Just another side, I do remember in 1953 when I went with my parents and brother to Swoffard's to purchase our first television set. Mayor A. A. Cashion and my parents were the only two households on Hinshaw Street to own a T. V. set at that time. During the week, 1/2 of the neighborhood would gather at the Cashion's house and the other 1/2 would gather at our's to watch Arthur Godfrey's show and a few others, and of course on Wednesday and Friday nights they gathered in to watch the boxing matches, one being sponsered by Schlitz Beer and the other by Gillette Razor blades. On these two nights the men and boys gathered in the den and the women in the kitchen. Mom would fix popcorn and some of the other ladies would bring ice tea and other goodies for us to much on while we watched TV. My brother and I would be sent to bed early on some nights.....not sure what the adults were watching then! LOL Yes, those were the days!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Thanks Melissa for the "stroll" down memory lane, although some of the pics were just a tad bit older than I am....lol.

Hey BRG, do you remember the Allen Theatre?

If you would like to see old pictures of the downtown you can go to this website. Click on the old photos link :http://www.downtownnorthwil...A really good book at the library is "North Wilkesboro: The First Hundred Years." It has many old photos. It is also a very interesting read.

Oh yes, 10th was definately NOT a place to be for us "decent" people....lol.

I can remember when I was in the 8th grade, my best friend and I were allowed to go to town on Saturdays...all alone..lol. Our parents would give us around 5.00 and we would hit Cress first, spend a little money there, and always have lunch at Brame Drug. We thought this such a treat to be allowed to do this.....and the fun we did have. Course, we stayed away from 10th street...lol. We would stay downtown for a long time and either walk to my dad's business or my friends grandfather's office and they would bring us home. Such BIG girls we were...lol