Beauty Salon

111 S. Dillard St.

Exterior photo of 111 S. Dillard as Brandt's Personal Hair Design Studio. 11.17.06 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Likely built in the 1940s on the western edge of what had once been the Somerset Villa property, this building was the restaurant "Barfields" in the 1950s. [1955 City Directory.] Barfields interior, 1950s (Courtesy Dawn Bennett Elder) Pauline...

1303 East Main Street

This shotgun structure has been home to a grocer, numerous beauty salons and a furniture repair business through the years.

1000-1004 E. Main St.

Multi-tenant 1930s commercial structure on the southeast corner of East Main and South Elm; survived in decayed form until the 1980s; was added to the Golden Belt NRHD. Demolished and replaced with the back end of a cul-de-sac.

105-107 W. Parrish St.

Aside from the two ends of the block, the south side of the 100 block of W. Parrish St. seems to have been rarely photographed. No pictures of this block face seem to exist prior to the fire of 1914 that destroyed most of the block. The first image of the block face is immediately after the fire Looking west, 1914; the south side of the street is...

112-114 North Church Street

716 Fayetteville

700 block of Fayetteville St., 1950s. 714-8 Fayetteville is the last building in the block, at the corner of Fayetteville St. and then-St.Joseph St. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun) 716-718 Fayetteville appears to have been built in the early 1920s; in 1923, 714 housed the Norfolk Sport Shop. By 1941, 716 housed Community Shoe Repair, and 718 Medliin's Seafood. By 1947, 716 housed the Pearline Beauty Salon, 718 Smith's Grocery

2012 Angier Avenue

2012 Angier Avenue, 04.04.11 Gertrude Brogden - Dry Goods - 1944 Clayton's Beauty Shop - 1950 Find this spot on a Google Map. 35.982359,-78.879058

2110-2114 Angier Avenue

2110-2114 Angier Ave., 1980 2110-2114 Angier Avenue was built between 1945 and 1950. 2110 initially housed Patsy's Beauty Shop and 2112 the Tip Top Supermarket. Patsy's would close within a few years, replaced by the Linthicum Radio and TV Service. The grocery would also go by the name "Tip Top Royal Blue Grocery" By the 1980s, the building housed William's Jeweler at 2114 and Waters Barber Shop at 2110.

312-316 South Driver Street

312-316 South Driver, 1945 312-316 South Driver was built in the 1920s. By the early 1930s, it housed Ferguson Grocery at 312, DW Brown Dry Cleaners at 314, and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) at 316. (314 had a wing that extended from the rear of the building to the south, fronting on Angier Avenue - 2021 Angier.) By the mid-1940s, 312 had become the East Durham Beauty Shop. It was closed by 1950.

803-815 Ninth

The west side of the 800 block of Ninth St. remained undeveloped until the late 1940s. At that point, a multi-storefront structure was built, followed by two detached structures. From the 1950 city directory: 803 Walsh’s Drive In Restaurant 805 Sears Launderette Piedmont Coffee Service Inc Carolina School of Watch Making 807 Vendapak Co 809 Carolina Baseball League 811 Sears Wholesale Co Inc confrs 813-15 Royal Sandwich & Food Company