Motor Service, Inc. (Yanceyville, NC)

In our discussion of the businesses that operated on the same side of Main Street in Yanceyville, NC, as Joe's Charcoal Burger I posted the following:

"There was a building with a bar upstairs. It may have sold food. I remember going there with my Uncle Arthur Moorefield, Jr., and his son Bill Moorefield. Bill and I were just lads, so it would have been in the mid-1950s or so. I vividly recall walking up stairs and my uncle having a beer."

Thanks to JC Winstead for providing the photograph. That is the building, which apparently was the old/original Motor Service, Inc. business. Click image to see a larger version.

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Gordon Satterfield: Bill brown from Danville ran parts store next to it NAPA parts I believe farm bureau is where red pig was

Mike Davis: Gordon G Satterfield that's right brown did in the place the hunting store is now

Carroll Aldridge: I think the NAPA store opened in the old ABC store after the ABC store moved to the intersection of Old Hwy 86 and New Hwy 86 (often referred to as the bypass).

Ken Darnell: The building beside Bill Browns "Motor Service" was once a convenience store called "Jiffy Mart". I worked there for Brown back in the day. Beside the Jiffy Mart, in the same building was a laundromat. The upstairs portion was apartments...later the first location of Caswell Family Medical Center.

Yep. That was the building that Bill Brown made into "Jiffy Mart"...on the right...and a coin operated laundry on the left. The upstairs were apartments for a time and then the first (as I know of) location of the Caswell Family Medical Center.

Luther Fowler: He was one of the best parts man in the business. Bill's computer was in his head.

Rick Frederick: I also recall the old building being directly across the street from Johnny Harwood's house. Johnny's father, of the same name, built a baseball diamond/field beside his house (east of). At one time Johnny Harwood, Sr., was Yanceyville VFD Fire Chief. He would take a group of boys to Danville to see minor league baseball.

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New Motor Service, Inc., building with old building to left.

Newspaper advertisement showing both old and new buildings.