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The following pictures & descriptions were sent to me by former Bristolian JOHN WILSON. I deemed them interesting
enough to place on the site. Thanks, John.
(Read more about John Wilson in this page's site footer).
**All images are thumbnails, Click
to view larger image.
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@1900...Alvin Vaught in buggy on Holston River bridge, Bluff City, TN. Note leaf spring on buggy. This
was a socializing buggy & not a work configuration.
@1912...Leona Vaught in the black dress, with friend.
@1912...Leona Vaught, on left, with friend, probably at Holston river at Bluff City,TN.
@1915...Construction of side street next
to Alvin & Leona Vaught’s house on corner of 1260 Virginia Av.,Bristol,TN.
@1925...1925 Star automobile owned by Alvin Vaught out for a Sunday drive near Bristol, TN.
@1925...Alvin Vaught in his Star automobile at home garage, 1260 Virginia Ave., Bristol, TN.
@1925...Woman fourth from left believed to be Mollie Wilson
at her home in Bristol, TN., with unknown folks.
@1928...Alvin & Leona Vaught in their Star automobile on a Sunday drive near Bristol, Tn. Over rear
tire is the name of Bristol's Star dealer.
@1928...Leona Vaught, third from left, with unknown folks & unknown residence near Bristol,
TN.
@1935...Alvin & Leona Vaught’s home, 1260 Virginia Ave., Bristol, TN.
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@1900...Leona Vaught, on left ,with friends.
@1912...Alvin Vaught & unknown friend in possibly a Flanders Model 10 or 12. The
automobile maker only built cars for 2 years & failed due to poor quality control & excessive repair
problems.
@1912...Leona Vaught,on left, at a social outing with friends.
@1912...Gay Wilson (Campbell & later Whitlock), standing second from left & J.W.
Wilson, sitting on the tricycle.
@1915...Side street construction next to Alvin & Leona Vaught’s house, 1260 Virginia Ave.,
Bristol, TN., looking from leftside front of their house to rear.
@1925...Unknown people in Alvin Vaught’s Star automobile at the Bluff City, TN., bridge.
@1925...Woman fourth from left believed to be Mollie Wilson
at her home in Bristol, TN., with unknown folks. Note gas pump in rear.
@1928...Alvin & Leona Vaught in their Star automobile in front of unknown residence in Bristol, TN.
@1928...Alvin & Leona Vaught with their Star automobile near Bristol, TN.
@1935...Alvin & Leona Vaught, on a bridge near Bristol, TN.
@1942...John Wilson on Fairmont Ave., Bristol,Va.
clutching a bottle of chocolate milk, delivered by Southern Maid Dairy's horsedrawn milk wagon.
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@1900...Leona Vaught in Alvin Vaught’s buggy
on the Holston River bridge, Bluff City, TN.
@1912...J. W. Wilson on tricycle at rear of family home in Bristol, TN.
@1915...Side street construction next to Alvin & Leona Vaught’s house at 1260 Virginia
Ave., Bristol, TN., looking from left side center of their house.
@1925...Horse drawn mechanical grain reaper.
@1925...Alvin Vaught (center),with unknown people at the bridge at Bluff City, TN.
@1925...Woman third from left believed to be Mollie Wilson at
her home in Bristol, TN., with unknown folks. Note ad on store building for “Music Masters” radio.
@1928...Alvin Vaught standing next to his Star automobile at his home, 1260 Virginia Ave., Bristol, TN.
@1928...Alvin and Leona Vaught with their Star automobile on a Sunday drive near Bristol, TN.
@1935...Alvin & Leona Vaught at unknown location near Bristol, TN.
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John Wilson: in his own words........
My father was Basil Wilson. He used to own half of Haun and Wilson Jewelers on State Street.
In the 30s and 40s he worked at Ryland's Jewelers and the Jewel Box. He died in Februrary, 1986. My mother worked
at the Fashion Shop on State Street. From 1954 to 1956 I worked at the Paramount Theatre as first an usher and then
a doorman. I made $.45 an hour and later as a doorman $.55 an hour. In 1957 I briefly worked as a doorman at the
Cameo Theatre. Movie prices for kids were $.10 and $.50 for adults. My haircuts were at a black barber shop for
$.25 and later for $.50. But I bought and paid for a 1952 Nash Rambler station wagon and still had some spending money.
From 1957 to 1958 I worked on the weekends during church service broadcasts for WOPI-AM. Tennessee Ernie Ford
worked at the station after WWII and they had one of his first paychecks framed. In June of 2007, while driving
in downtown Bristol I almost got lost as some of the street patterns had changed.
I am attaching a few other pictures you might find interesting. Some are building
a side street next to 1260 Virginia Ave., Bristol, TN., where a great aunt of my father lived and baby sitted me for many
years. She was Leona Vaught and her husband was Alvin Vaught, a carpenter. Attached are also pictures of the
house he built there probably around 1915. One picture shows him literally where Virginia Ave. now is. I was in
Bristol in June 2007, for a few days and looked up the people living there now. When Leona Vaught died she left
the property to me. I was in college and my father eventually sold it. The house now is white bricked and I took
prints of some of the pictures and the guy who lives there is about 80 years old but as a kid remembers Alvin Vaught who knew
his father. Alvin Vaught died in 1944 and Leona Vaught died around 1959. I remember her having
chickens and grapevines at the house.
Sources - Bibliography
i) Library of King College, Bristol,Tenn.
- Newspaper Microfilms
ii) Bristol,TN-VA Public Library - Newspaper
Microfilms & City Directories
iii) 1904 Bristol Herald Industrial
Supplement
iv) Bristol-Goodson Industry &
Resources in 1885 -W.F.Henry/Reporter
v) Witness To An Epoch -
Chas.J. Harkrader
vi) Double Destiny
- Robert Loving
vii) Historic Sites of Sullivan County
- Muriel Spoden
viii) Bristol Tennessee-Virginia : A History
- V.N. "Bud" Phillips
ix) Spirits & Medicinal Bottles
of Bristol, Tenn.-Va. - Charlie Barnette
x) The Passing Years
- Bristol Historical Association
xi) City of Bristol @ 1915
xii) A Pictorial History -
Bristol Historical Association
xiii) Whiskey, An American Pictorial History
- Oscar Getz
xiv) Prohibition, 13 Years That Changed
America - Edward Behr
xv) The Shadow Of The Bottle -
Review & Herald Publishing Co.
xvi) Historic Sullivan - Oliver Taylor
xvii) One Year At A Time - Bristol - 1907
- Lonnie & Kim Blevins
xviii) Honoring Our Heritage: Faces & Places
From The Past -
Lonnie
& Kim Blevins and Roy & Carolyn Williams
xvix) Between the States: Bristol Tennessee -
Virginia During the Civil War - V.N. "Bud" Phillips
xx) Pioneers in Paradise - Bristol,
Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips
xxi) A Good Place to Live - Bristol,
Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips |
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