A Walk Down Memory Lane
in the History of
Albemarle Glass Company
We start our journey in  an old two bay service station building at a point
in time which, most appropriately, had to be labeled,
Our Humble Beginnings"
 
 

              This first set of photographs are of our first home, 1225 Pee Dee Avenue, Albemarle.            The first two show the building as it now appears since I can't seem to find any of the outside prior to it's having gotten a facelift.  The building was 1200 sq. ft. with about half of that being shop working area.  The second two show the disaster that was our shop working area.  At the time we had been very busy for what seemed to be forever....too busy apparently, to take time to haul off the trash.  Pat and I each said the other one should do it.  If I remember corectly, I was still leaving my dirty socks on the floor at home during that time of my life. Now I take the time necessary to lay them gently across the back of the couch, and it's my office which looks like the disaster that was our shop work area.  It must have been my fault all along.
 

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                         Street Side                                                                  Back Side
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             How does one move around          inside                       this place?
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          We acquired ownership of the business there from it's founder, Mr. James Harvey Emmons on December 28th, 1979, which also just happened to be our 5th wedding anniversary.  We rented the property from the Drye family of Dun  Rite Laundry just next door.  Gene and his family always treated us with kindness, as if we were members of his own family.  He will long be remembered with gratitude for all of his help.  We were to occupy this location until March, 1985 when we moved to 134 North First Street.  During this time we averaged between one and six employees, and really didn't yet know a lot about what we were doing.  Our sales, restricted by available finances, ignorance on my part, space available in which to work, and the limited availability of qualified employees  (there were NONE),  grew from an annual $89,000.00 to a whopping $164,000.00 at the ending of our first five years of doing business in September, 1984.  Better things lay ahead because God was taking an un(glass)educated wanna be country boy, and turning him into a (somewhat) knowledgable, down town business man.  No easy task I guarantee, "but with God, all things are possible". Mark 4:27
 
 
 

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