Central Dist. Co.- - Memphis TX
N 35° 08.027 W 090° 03.544
15S E 767967 N 3891839
A ghost sign on Main St for the Central Distribution Company -- a big business in the 18th and early 19th centuries in Memphis.
Waymark Code: WMNM2T
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 04/01/2015
Views: 1
The Central Distribution Company was a large warehousing firm that operated in Memphis from the city's founding in the early 1830s through the 1950s.
The Central Distribution Company served as a logistics and transportation hub for various consumer products including whiskey. The main building was located on front Street, but the this advertisement for the company is located at the 500 block of South Main Street.
Blasterz think there are several ghost signs here.
The top banner sign is for the "Central Dist. Co." Fragmentary info with some old advertising glassware for this company can be found here:
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. Other sides are scattered along the southerly brick side of this building. New windows make these signs difficult to read sometimes.
Other signs here read as follows:
"JOHNSON & JOHNSTON CO.
Wholesale Bicycles Supplies, Tire, Automobile Supplies"
[Blasterz could not find out anything about this business in the 1913 Memphis City Directory]
"CENTRAL"
"Automobile [illegible]"