Grocery Store

600 block of North Mangum - 602 is the house in the lower right hand corner. 602 N. Mangum was built in the early 20th century; Mrs. MF Happer lived in the house in 1919. In 1963, the house was demolished. As an early project of United Durham Incorporated (UDI,) a supermarket was built to serve a community that was no longer served by supermarkets...

Five Points looking west, 1905 Between 1898 and 1902, the Durham Marble Works was built on land at Five Points that would become 421-423 West Main St. Per the 1895 Handbook of Durham:

Former Watts Street Grocery, 1980.

Piggly Wiggly, looking northeast from North Roxboro, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Murdock Building, 1929, during a national tree-sitting contest, during which Arnold Taylor sat in the tree for 6-7 weeks. Note the trolley tracks in Broad Street. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

756-760 Ninth St. was built in the early 1930s. 756 housed Southern Dry Cleaners as its original tenant, and 758-760 housed Pender’s Stores and Parragon 5¢ to $1 Store, respectively. 756 Ninth would house the Southern Dry Cleaners until 1980, while 758-760 had a variety of other tenants: 1940s: 758 Colonial Stores gros 760 Royal Sandwich Co 1950s: 758-760: Red & White Super Mkt gros (later Eaubanks Red and White)

744-752 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Built in the early 1920s, 748-752 Ninth St. housed Bowen’s Barber Shop at 748, Universal Stores Inc at 750, and Pender Stores Co at 752 in 1926. 1930: 748 West Durham Market meats 750 Moser’s Barber Shop 752 Universal Stores Co Inc (br) bros 1930s-1940s

740 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 740 Ninth was the location of John Dailey's grocery store by 1926; by 1935 it is noted as Calvin Dailey's grocery store. By the early 1940s, Dailey had moved southward to 736-738 Ninth, and Louis Bonardi had moved his fruit and produce store to Dailey's former location at 740 Ninth.

---- (Courtesy Herald-Sun) Bird's Eye view looking west the Erwin Field at Broad and West Main Streets, ~1940. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) One of the early community assets created by the Erwin Cotton Mills and its principal, William Erwin, was the Erwin field, which hosted the Erwin Auditorium baseball team...

Looking southeast from Erwin Road at Forlines Grocery, 1980 Per the Durham Architectural Inventory, a store occupied the southwest corner of Erwin Road and Blacknall St. (later Alexander Ave.) It appears that the masonry structure above had been constructed by 1910. The store was run by AL Bowen during the 1910s, and by 1924, Forline's Grocery -...