HISTORIC | Old Old Ads
LET’S GO BACK IN TIME TO LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, WAY BACK IN THE DAY! HERE ARE A FEW YELLOW PAGE AD’S FROM THE LYNCHBURG PHONE BOOK OF 1951-1952! A FEW OF THESE BUSINESS’S ARE STILL IN BUSINESS, A FEW HAVE CHANGED THEIR NAMES, BUT THIS IS AN INTERESTING PAGE FROM OVER MY AGE AGO! THERE ARE MORE PAGES FROM 1954, AND 1986 LINKS AND ADS…ENJOY!
HERE ARE A FEW MORE OLD AD’S FROM COMPANYS THAT ARE MOSTLY NO LONGER HERE ANYMORE! LETS REMEMBER THEM, AND THE IMPACT THEY HAD IN THE COMMUNITY!
Lets go buy one of those Hornets!
Need a locksmith or a spare key back in the day!
Remember McGee Furniture?
Burnette Repair shop, fixed my bike when I bent my rim.
Do you collect coins?
Remember Reams Furniture?
More resturants!
Grave markers!
Contractors
Let's go Bowling!
Need a Xerox?
Got furniture?
Wow...there was a grocer on almost every corner!
J.P. Bell! Great at ordering books!
Mobile home dealer!
Radio stations!
Make mine extra crispy!
Bowens!
Loan Company!
Taylor Brothers!
Two hospitals soon to merge!
Jewelery Store!
Remember coin laundries? A quarter drys!
Barr Brothers!
Let Hertz put you in the drivers seat....ask O.J!
Need appliances?
Dodson....still killing dem' bugs!
Greyhound bus station, next to Trailways?
Yes Lynchburg....we had a Piggly Wiggly!
Food back in the day! Which one is still here!
Lynchburg Plate Glass!
Gene Campbell's!
Pete's Auto Sales!
Christan Book Shop, guess what it is now!
A lot more barbers than in the 50's!
Community Funeral Home!
Is your car radio broken, it probably needs a new vibrator!! No kidding...haha... Ask me and I'll tell you what the vibrator is used for.......in a radio!?
Here is a list of important phone numbers provided by Duiguid Funeral Home!
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Schewel's Furniture Company! They always sponsered ad's in the Dunbar Yearbook as long as I can remember! Everyone in this picture is no longer with us! Elliot Schewel passed away in December 2019!
Humphrey's TV! I like their slogan at the bottom of the ad!
Early Diamond Hill Baptist Church!
VW dealer...
Used to be a shoe factory?
Remember the members of LYN-CAG!
Paving company!
Remember our only Clock company!
Early GLTC!
Jim Mitchell and Lynchburg Ford!
Remember "the Buddies!"
I got my first Chevy Van here!
Who didn't buy a pair of shoes from Tom Braxton?
This was one of the only a few auto parts stores!
Remember Jefferson Car Wash!
The Lynchburg Mets, now The Hillcats!
Mrs. Giles on Oakley Ave!
Virginia Baptist Hospital, now Centra!
I got my first disco set from Mr. Pillow at Roberts Piano company!
Yes we had a Piggly Wiggly! It became "Kings"
We bought our first color TV set from here!
We always got our prescriptions here
Torn down now!
Torn down now!
Terrell Moseley...still there!
Still here....down the street...
Still here.....downtown!
Still here, now on Fort Ave.
Right next to Community Funeral Home!
Remember they opened a store on Memorial Ave.
Remember the radio station was on the 11th. floor of the 8th and Main location?
Remember the model race-car sets? It burnt down!
Remember the Madison Hgt's location burnt down!
Remember Howard and the "live" radio remote broadcasts?
Now Sunshine Market!
Now Haileys appliances! The lt. Doug Hawkins had the other Delorean in town!
Nash??
Myra's Uncles business!
Look forward to Santa's display every Christmas! moved to the Plaza, then to the Mall!
Lincoln anyone?
Keep it clean!
Jobbing House!
Jobbing House!
Home-Depot....help!
Have a wreck?
Got a Packard? They will fix it!
Furniture Stores!
Dad might have bought our Pierce St. home from here....not sure?
Dad and I used to walk down the street and check out the new Studebakers!
Classmate Cynthia's father's business!
Broken Juke-Box??
Bookstore! Staples??
Before home-Depot, there was Campbell-Payne and C.S. Hutter!
Before First & Merchants!
Been of Fort Ave. for a while now!
Became Vaughn's, then a pawn shop!
Became a pawn shop.....o...k!
Appliance dealer, now a pawn shop!
Adams Motor Company!
W.D. Campbell Insurance Co.
John Gannaway Co.
Electronic Service Co.
Gas station, no sign it was ever there now!
Marion Branch contractor!
Remember Stokes Beauty School!
Beer company still here, different location!
Most church furniture came from here!
Department stores back in the day!
36-Still the "seediest?"
I will always remember the unique sound of the Roadmaster!
Cement Company still here!
Traveling by Bus!
Hearing Aids were the size of a transistor radio at the time!
State Farm, still operating!
This company moved us to our Pierce St. home!
The only drug store at the time in Rivermont!
Radio not working?
Radio not working?
Get a Zenith "Transoceanic" here!
Get you a Crosley radio here!
Most funeral homes in the area featured an ambulance service too!
Believe it or not, Singer made a great portable battery operated record player here!
Need a watch battery? What do you mean what am I talking about!
Here is one of only two Nursing homes in the area! Someone could have made a great investment here!
Paint/Hardware Store!
Hardware store!
There was only one rent-a-car company in the area! Someone could have made a killing in this venue?
Need to put up an outdoor billboard?
Need driving lessions? Heck with the twin steering wheels, and the accelerators. I would like twin brakes!!
Got a broken lawnmower? They also fix bikes at Burnettes, went there when I bent my back rim showing off one day!
Wow...we have two radio stations to choose from!
Need something printed?
Take a picture here!
02-Want a Juke-box in your Joint?
A Black beauty shop downtown!
Parking today is 25 cents for the first hour! Not that much different from today as in 1951!
Keeping us warm!
Southern Parts and Bearing
Kastan's, I got one of my early Elgin radios here!
Ice Cream too??
Pick up a new Desoto up on the block!
Vaughn's became the Chevy dealer! Remember Esteppe Oldsmobile?
The Chevy dealer used to be across from the Holiday Inn Select downtown!
Black owned coal company! Cynthia's Dad! They soon moved to Campbell Ave, behind Va. College!
Wait a minute....where are the Benz's & the BMW's?
Beauty salon!
That first funeral Home...location sounds familiar!
Still in business, larger than ever! Rats, roaches and termites haven't gone anywhere!
Shave and a haircut....two bits!
Hair salon!
Remember the neighborhood stores on almost every corner?
Anybody sick?
Still selling eyewear in a different location!
Still in business, After all these years!
Soon to come, the Packardbaker.....no kidding?!
Lets dine at the Silver Slipper!
The Y before Jamerson
The Elks....still there!
Park Ave. Flower Shop! Owned by the Uncle of DJ J.J. Maxx!
The company that did the Dunbar Wall.....still there!
Lets go to the Harrison Theater! Zorro, Sci-fi pictures on a Saturday afternoon! Check out the latest Fats Domino and the Drifters before the show started!
Sears used to be downtown, now we don't know where it is??
