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Interview no. | R-0763 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.42. Special Research Projects: West Southern Pines, N.C. |
Project description | This is a collection of interviews conducted in 1982 by Nancy O. Mason of Southern Pines, North Carolina with residents of part of Southern Pines which used to be its own, predominantly Black township in the 1920s, called West Southern Pines. West Southern Pines was annexed back into Southern Pines in the 1930s, but the twenty-six interviews attest to the longevity of the West Southern Pines community. Both black and white residents of West Southern Pines tell their recollections of the incorporation of West Southern Pines and the daily lives of its inhabitants. |
Date | 26 April 1982 |
Interviewee | Quick, Ed. |
Interviewee occupation |
Automobile drivers Construction workers |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Ed Quick was originally from Gibson, N.C., in Scotland County. Quick moved to Southern Pines, but points out that he never actually lived in West Southern Pines, then the all-black town. He can’t remember whether he moved in 1922 or 1923, but he does remember that it was summertime. When he arrived, the roads were dirt and the biggest things he could remember in Southern Pines was the Patches’ Store and Mr. Lewis’ Market. He put himself to work building streets and golf courses at the country club. Quick recalls that other than attending church he rarely made it to West Southern Pines because it was not easy to get over on the bad wagon road. He once drove a T-Model up the hill to get to West Southern Pines by car, which in 1924-25 was an impressive feat. Quick set up a taxi business with his new car, a 1926 Chevrolet, driving tourists around Pinehurst or even back and forth from New York. He claimed that this was cheaper for the commuters than the train if five people packed into the car. Over the years Quick supplemented his income in many ways, including, like many young men, caddying on the golf courses. Quick met his wife at a dance at Adam’s Theater in Pinehurst. As noted, Quick did not live in West Southern Pines and didn’t have many ideas about the political reasons for the charter or annex, but he was very informative about cultural and commercial aspects of life in West Southern Pines. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on April 26, 1982. It is part of a series of interviews with people who lived in or around West Southern Pines as it had existed as a separate and entirely African American municipality from 1923 to 1931. |
Subject Geographic | Southern Pines (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Ed Quick by Nancy Mason, 26 April 1982, R-0763, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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