Cafe

518-520 East Pettigrew

518 East Pettigrew, ~1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 518 1/2 East Pettigrew, ~1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 520 - 520 1/2 East Pettigrew ~ 1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Built in the late 1920s, 518-522 East Pettigrew housed a variety of...

933 East Main St.

11.13.10 933 East Main in 1919 housed Parker's Drug Store, run by Roland H. Parker. By 1923, it housed the Edgemont Candy Kitchen, run by either "GL Orthanos" or "Augustus L Orphanos", depending upon which page of the city directory you believe; he lived at 520 1/2 East Pettigrew St. 1933: Reeves Square Deal Cafe 1937: Lipscomb Bros. Barbers

111-113 W. Chapel Hill St.

(Via George Pyne photo of an older picture; origin unknown) - 1940s. 111-113 is to the left. Looking southwest. This may be the best picture available of 111-113 W. Chapel Hill St. - a double-bay one story structure that was evidently home to "Simp's Place." It was torn down along with the remaining structures in this picture in the late 1950s...

412 East Pettigrew

1920s view showing part of 408-412 on the right. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 408-412 East Pettigrew was a multi-tenant commercial building built in 1928 by G.P. Holloway. He established the Bull City Barber Shop in the 410 E. Pettigrew bay that same year. Bull City Cafe occupied the 412 E. Pettigrew bay. Early...

2102 Angier Avenue

2100-2104 Angier Avenue, 05.28.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun) In 1928, 2102 Angier is listed as "William Thomas, Billiards." By 1934, the building was vacant. By the mid-1940s, Andrews Market was located here, and remained here through the 1950s. In 1960, Linthicum Radio and TV repair moved to the building. 2102-2104 Angier, 1980

706 Ninth Street

706 Ninth Street, 12.21.69 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 706 Ninth Street was built in ~1936; it initially housed the Andrews Furniture Company, followed by the West Durham Furniture Company. By the early 1960s, the building appears to have been vacant, but was soon reoccupied by Custom Interiors and the Neil Upholstery Co. In 1971, Godwin Dance School became a tenant

801 Fayetteville St.

801 Fayetteville (not on a corner - the change from 700 to 800 occurred where St. Joseph St. intersected but did not cross Fayetteville) was built in the late 1920s, and initially housed Malone's Cafe. By the 1940s, it housed Elvira's Blue Tavern, before that establishment moved to its Pettigrew St. location in the late 1940s.

704 Fayetteville

Looking southwest at the 700 block of Fayetteville St., 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald Sun)

Cooke's Cafe

200 South Gregson, looking east, 1948. Cooke's is on the far left. The few blocks of Gregson Street south of the tracks were mostly residential well into the 1950s - however, immediately adjacent to the tracks - and the businesses just to the north - was Cooke's cafe. I don't know a thing about the menu at Cooke's, but I do know that they managed...