Wilson Daily Times, 13 January 1948.
Wilson Bottling Company stood at the corner of East Nash and South Vick Streets in a building originally occupied by a grocery. This stretch of East Nash Street was a small commercial district featuring several groceries and the Elks Club’s lodge building.
Here’s the area in the 1930 Sanborn map, before the Elks Club was built:
In 1930, the businesses were:
- at 909, Wade H. Humphrey Grocery
- at 911, vacant
- at 913, barber Oscar Williams
- at 915, vacant
- at 917, vacant
- at 1000, Babe Pridgen Grocery
- at 1001 [921], Edward Nicholson Grocery
- at 1004A, vacant
- at 1005, Marcellus Forbes Grocery
- at 1006, Moses Parker Grocery
In the 1947 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory:
- at 909, vacant
- at 911, Farm & Home Curb Market
- at 913, Mattie G. Hines beer shop
- at 915 and 917, Gill’s Grocery
- at 1000, Wilson Bottling Company
- at 1001 [921], Elks Home, Marshall Lodge #297
- at 1004A, vacant
- at 1005, Forbes Grocery
- at 1006, Forbes Grocery storage