ANDERSON GARAGE

     Paul Anderson was drafted for service in World War I. He had been in uniform one week when the war ended November 1918. His father wanted him to go to college, but Paul chose to go to a machinist school in Kansas City. About a year later in 1919, he started Silverhill's first automobile shop.

Anderson Garage about 1920. Another print of the same photo as above.

     Will Hlobil, the barber, built a barbershop on the south side of the Anderson Garage in about 1921. In 1923, he built his own barbershop directly across from the Anderson Garage on County Road 55.

This is a recent satellite view of the town block 12, lot 7 bought in 1920 that contained the Anderson Garage, highlighted in magenta. - Click to enlarge.

This is a recent satellite view of the town block 12, lots 5 and 6 bought in 1921 that contained the Anderson Garage, highlighted in magenta. - Click to enlarge.

Location:

The garage was on the west side of County Road 55 at the corner of N Park Drive next to the NE Market Square (town block 12, lots 5, 6, and 7). This building no longer exists. In 2024, a building housing the Silverhill Church of Christ sits on this lot, while the Advantage Business Solutions is on the site of the barbershop.

Interesting fact:

1. In 1927, Paul Anderson bought a larger garage called the Silverhill Motor Co. from Clarence Anderson. Read more here about the Silverhill Motor Co. built by Clarence Anderson.


2. By 1940, Paul Anderson was living in Fairhope and working at Klumpp Motor Company as an automobile salesman.

Anderson Garage about 1920.