SENOIA HARDWARE COMPANY
Senoia Hardware Company
Senoia Hardware Company was owned by L.L. Hutchinson and Walt Arnall and located on the north side of Main Street in downtown Senoia. Standing inside the store in this scene are Walt Arnall, left, and Elbert Caldwell, right. The building is still standing and is across from Hollberg's Furniture.
Newnan Times-Herald
Jimmy Hutchinson
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CCR 1987.08.11
ARNALL GROCERY OPENING, 1929
Arnall Grocery Opening, 1929
This crowd was gathered for the opening of a new self-service grocery started by the H.C. Arnall Merchandise Company on April 17, 1929. The photo, a companion to another published in this feature April 21, 1987, is provided y Dorsey Beavers, present owner of Arnall Grocery Company on East Broad. The company had moved from what is now the Kessler's building to the former Burdett warehouse building on the northeast corner of Perry and East Washington Street. Arnall Merchandise, founded in 1869, was celebrating 60 years of business in Newnan with a grand opening sale. The retail store where customers served themselves rather than having orders filled by clerks was a new concept, and the was the first such self-service super store in Georgia, according to Beavers. The company continued to operate a wholesale grocery business in part of the building. In later years the store was known as the Krazy Kat. Shortly after World War II, the company name was shortened to Arnall Grocery Company. The building that covered half a city block burned February 18 and 19, 1978, in a fire so intense that it cracked windows of Craft Cleaners across the street. At that time, Beavers noted that the location was once a slave market, that during the Civil War it was a hospital for soldiers, and after the Battle of Brown's Mill was a prison for federal soldiers. Used as warehouse and full of cotton, a building at the spot burned at one point and was built again, Beavers said. At the time of the 1978 fire, Millians and Thompson grocery had been operating in the East Broad Street end of the building for 13 months and Arnall Grocery was using the back for storage. Arnall Grocery Company had been purchased by Beavers in 1976 from Joe Arnall, father of former Gov. Ellis Arnall, and moved to a larger building down East Broad. After the debris was cleared, Gov. Arnall later agreed for the land to be used as a city parking lot.
Newnan Times-Herald
April 17, 1929
Dorsey Beavers
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CCR 1987.05.26
First Self-Service Grocery
Newnan's First Self-service grocery store
Dorsey Bowers provided this interior view of the new self-service grocery store opened by the H.C. Arnall Merchandise Company April 17, 1929. The company had moved from what is now the Kessler's building to the former Burdett warehouse building on the northeast corner of Perry and Washington Streets. Arnall Merchandise, founded in 1869, was celebrating 60 years of business in Newnan with a grand opening sale. The retail store where customers served themselves rather than having orders filled by clerks was a new concept, and this was the first such self-service super store in Georgia, according to Beavers. The company continued to operate a wholesale grocery business in part of the building. In later years, the grocery store was known as the Krazy Kat. Shortly after World War II, the company name was shortened to Arnall Grocery Company, which still operates in a building on East Washington Street. The building at Perry and East Washington is no longer standing - it burned in the late 1970s and the site is now a city parking lot.
Newnan Times-Herald
April 17, 1929
Dorsey Beavers
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CCR 1987.04.21
A BIRTHDAY GATHERING
A birthday gathering
This group of youngsters attended the third birthday party of young Katie Glenn Arnall at the home of her uncle, Alton W. Arnall, on Jackson Street in the 1920s. In the the photograph are, from left, front, John Holmes McCalla, Jett Fisher, Bobby Mann, Donald Banks, Katire Arnall Hollis, David Stripling, Rebecca Gray Powell, Jimmy Weddington, Fannie Arnold Hudson, Billy Murphey, Ethel Cook Ragsdale; second row, Polly Cook Crowley, Martha Mooney Hines, Bessie Mann Sewell, Bobo B. Mann, Jack Powell, Jr., Joe Hollis, Jr., Mary Davis Bryant, W.B. Davis, Jr., Minerva Cole Woodruff, Zoe Glover Drake Dickson, Sarah Spradlin Johnson, William Banks; third row, Harrold Barron, Marrion "Brer" Barron, James McCalla, Jr., Sara Gray Hollis Cole, James "Buddy" Owens, Lucia Peniston, Mary King Keith, Frances King ann, Georgia Wynn Carter, Margaret Penistons "Skees" Powell; and in back, Jean Loffin-Cobb and Lucy Arnall Colvin.
Newnan Times-Herald
1920s
Katie Arnall Hollis
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CCR 1985.10.08
Centennial Parade Float
Centennial Parade Float
The float in this photograph was in the parade commemorating Coweta County and Newnan's 100th anniversary on September 28, 1927. The float was sponsored by Arnall Mills, which is now owned by Bibb Manufacturing Company of Macon. Shown on the float are Henry C. Arnall, Governor Arnall's grandfather; Joe G. Arnall, his father; and uncles Alton W. Arnall, H.C. Arnall Jr., and Frank M. Arnall.
Newnan Times-Herald
September 28, 1927
former Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall
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CCR 1985.06.06