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Washington Street
915 Washington St.
1981
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907 Washington St.
1981
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905 Washington St.
905 Washington, 1981
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901 Washington St.
901 Washington, to the right, 1930s. (Courtesy Duke Forest Archives) 901 Washington, 1981. 901 Washington St. from West Trinity, looking northwest, 06.07.08. In 2010, 901 Washington was radically altered in a strange modernizing.
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948 Washington Street
12.07.11
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732 Washington Street
04.19.09 From the NR listing, in italics below: Riley's Paint Warehouse, a small one-story concrete-block building at 732 Washington Street, was built about 1950 to the rear of Scott and Roberts Dry Cleaning Plant, Office and Store. It first appears in the 1950-1951 City Directory. The concrete-block building has a west façade veneer of red...
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808-812 Washington Street
808-812 Washington St., 1949 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) By 1949, 808-812 Washington was the home of branch of the Model Cleaners, which had its beginnings on West Main Street prior to a move to 209 Foster St. by the 1920s.
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Stone Brothers And Byrd
In 1919, it appears that the Byrd Brothers (Hubert R. h - 317 E Chapel Hill, and William E. - h 831 N. Mangum) were part of the Byrd and Bryan grocers, located at 119 West Parrish Street, along with Kenney U. Bryan (h 833 N. Mangum.) By 1940, the Byrd Brothers had gone out on their own and teamed up with a Pickett - becoming Byrd Bros. and Pickett...
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Erwin Oil Company
(Courtesy Bob Blake) An American Oil Company (AMOCO) Bulk Oil and gasoline wholesale plant / warehouse was established between the Norfolk and Western railroad spur and Washington St. prior to 1937. In 1945, operation of the plant was taken over by the Erwin Oil Company, which continues to operate it today. 06.06.08 04.01.10 From the National...
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Durham Athletic Park
El Toro Baseball Field, circa 1930. The Jack Tar/Washington Duke Hotel is in the left background. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) Despite the preeminence of basketball in North Carolina today, baseball seems to be far more tightly woven into Durham's DNA.
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