#Faulkner county booked pouncey registration#

Brown at the same address and he was a hairdresser with his own business at that location. lived at 147 West 143rd Street, Apartment 1 his contact was Mrs.

#Faulkner county booked pouncey registration#

Per his registration card, he was born 29 June 1888 in Kittrell Springs, N.C.

In 1942, Oscar Caroline Gordon registered for the World War II draft in New York City. An ad placed in 1933 in the New York Age shows Gordon weathered the early years of the Great Depression. He was still in business in 1930, advertising face bleach and black hair dye in addition to creams and combs. “Use Gordon’s Glory Hair Grower for that bald spot and be convinced.” Wilson Daily Times, 21 January 1926. Soon after, Oscar Gordon took his talents to New York City, where he set up shop in Harlem at 267 West 144th Street. The site is now a parking lot.ġ922 Sanborn fire insurance map, Wilson, N.C. The 1922 Sanborn map of Wilson shows a hairdresser at 513, and at 511 a presser, which generally meant a clothes presser. In the 1922 directory, Gordon is listed as a hairdresser at 511 East Nash. He has restored hair on thousands of bald heads. Walker, Gordon occasionally intensified his branding to include a photograph of himself in a tie and high detachable collar - and a magnificent head of flowing hair. Gordon, its proprietor, lived at 521 East Nash.īy late 1920, Gordon had expanded his product line to include face powders (in “good brown,” pink and white) and hair pullers (“unnecessary to wrap rags around the handle” - something like a flat iron?)Īs first seen in 1917 in Winston-Salem advertising, a la Madam C.J. Gordon Manufacturing Company, a maker of toilet preparations, at 512 East Nash Street. The 1920 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory lists O.C. Gordon also placed an ad for a “lady bookkeeper”: Gordon placed this testimonial ad close to home: The illustration shows the “Hair Dressers’ Oil Stoves for heating two combs.” Birmingham Reporter, 17 August 1918. Gordon’s Laboratory” and for order from his manufacturing company at 512 East Nash Street. Later that year, he placed this modest ad for for his Glory Hair grower.īy 1918, Gordon had relocated to Wilson and was placing ads in newspapers across the country touting his “course in hair dressing” (which included a certificate of qualification and a “hair dresser’s outfit” of tools and creams) and various products developed by “O.C. lived at 209 Fogle was single and worked as a self-employed laborer. His card notes that he was born 29 June 1888 in Kittrell Springs, N.C. Gordon registered for the World War I draft in Winston-Salem in 1917. Twin-City Daily Sentinel, 12 September 1916. It’s not clear when he developed his hair care formula or when he opened his laboratory, but in September 1916, there was this: Yes, for a while, Wilson had its own entrant in the early 20th-century battle for Black hair care supremacy.īefore Wilson, Oscar Gordon was in Winston-Salem, N.C. Just when I thought I could not be further surprised about Black Wilson came this glorious ad for Gordon’s Glory Hair Dressing Parlor.