Southern Junk Company
Merchant
c.1927-c.1942
South Broughton Street
Orangeburg, SC
FAMILIES: Kline
Around 1927, Russian immigrant Harry Kline (1872-1942) founded the Southern Junk Company, a scrap metal and second-hand auto parts business located on South Broughton Street in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Around 1939, his sons, Charles (1918-2005) and Leonard (1920-2002), took over the business, which graduated to selling structural steel, belting, and wire rope for home builders, contractors, and manufacturers.
Main Image: Southern Junk Company advertisement. Reprinted from The Times and Democrat, August 25, 1939.