We are the children of those who chose to survive.

                                                                                                  Nana Poussaint in Daughters of the Dust

 

 

 

Entrepreneurs
 

Riversider's were more than capable of creating their own opportunities as well as a successful infrastructure.

 

Business 

Owner

Location

Adams Kart Track

Adams Family

West Riverside

Allen Furniture Store

John Allen

8th St.

Bartee's Beauty Shop

W.F. Bartee

11th St.

Bowens Restaurant  

Ivarine Bowens

13th & Park Ave.

Boyd Barber Shop  

Robert Boyd

10th & Park Ave.

Boyd Real Estate Office 

Emma Boyd

10th & Park Ave.

Coleman & Davis Beauty Shop

Leona Coleman & Mylie Davis

14th St.

Danny's Place 

Danny Culpepper

14th & Grove

De la Houssaye Medical

Dr. De la Houssaye

8th & Park Ave.

Decatur Grocery Store 

The Decatur Family

14th & Park Ave.

Gordon Beauty Shop

Frances Gordon-Green

Park Ave.

Harris Sanitation Business

Oscar Harris

West Riverside

Jackson Beauty Shop

Laura Jackson

11th St.

Jones Auto Garage

Buster Jones

Park Ave.

Master Glaze Auto Wash

John Allen

14th & Main

Montgomery Café

Rev. Montgomery

Park Ave.

Norris Television Shop  

John Norris

Park Ave.

Palmer's Chicken Shack

Palmer Family

Park Ave.

Palmer's Dry Cleaners 

Palmer Family

Park Ave.

Peg's Party Shop 

Peggy Streeter

14th St.

Pitts Restaurant & Pool Hall 

The Pitts Family

Park Ave.

Ponder's Barber Shop  

James Ponder

8th St.

Reynolds Brothers Gas Station 

Al & Harold Reynolds

14th & Park Ave.

Reynolds Shoe Shine Stand

Sanders Reynolds

10th St. Downtown

Riverside Carriage Exchange

Frank Johnson

10th St. 

Stowers & Webb Auto Garage

James Stowers & Walter Webb

10th St.

Streeter Real Estate Office 

Eddie Streeter

14th & Park Ave.

Sweet Shop 

John Allen

Lincoln Park

The Place

L. B. Walker

Vine St.

Tillie's Mortuary

Frank Tillie

10th & Park Ave.

Wiley & Stokes Grocery Store 

Wiley & Stokes Family

12th & Park Ave. 

Winston Grocery Store 

Joe Winston

Sedgewick & 12th St.

Yates Restaurant 

Ida Yates

Park Ave.


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

-Booker T. Washington

 

 

 

 

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