Nicely's Grocery Store

Nicely's Grocery Store. . The Nicely's Grocery Store building, built in 1939, stands as a proud reminder of the neighborhood grocery store where customers could purchase groceries on a credit account, and the store made home deliveries. When the building was new, the Masonic lodge located on the upper floor after previously meeting upstairs in the Johnson and Law Building on Lincoln Road, and before that in a Babcock Lumber and Land Company office building., Captions (clockwise from top right) , . Pictured inside the original Nicely's Grocery Store building are, L-R, Thad Compton, clerk and deliveryman; A. C. Nicely, owner; and Eugene Wells, a customer. , . During Alcoa High School's undefeated football streak in 1954, A. R. Carter told the football players and band members that he would give free haircuts as long as the Tornadoes won. L-R, Tommy Yates, A. R. Carter, Bobby Thacker, Richard Byrd, R. H. Jewell, Billy Householder, and Arnold Lane. In the barber chair is Hugh Phipps. , . Above: The first Carter's Barber Shop was located in the back of the Nicely building. Barber A. R. Carter stands outside the building. , . Right: Nicely butcher Otha “Junior” Reagan stands beside the delivery truck. Families' supper plans often depended on what cut of meat Reagan was carving on a given day. , . Imelda and Helmer Nicely stand alongside the Nicely Grocery Store delivery truck in the 1950s. , . The original Nicely Grocery store was located on Wright Road. , . A. C. Nicely, Alcoa grocer. , . Nicely's Grocery store in 1939.