Pender’s Store was a small grocery operating at 129 South Goldsboro Street in the early 1920s. It likely employed an African-American porter or two, but probably had few African-American customers. Nonetheless, its Thanksgiving 1921 ad sheds light on the types of foods that would have appeared on the holiday table of a prosperous East Wilson family of the era.

Wilson Daily Times, 18 November 1921.