Grocery Store

1970s view of the Neighborhood Grocery. (Courtesy Old West Durham) A store appears on Sanborn Maps of the corner of Knox (once "C Street") and Alabama Ave by the 1930s. By the mid 20th century, the store was run by Jesse Morrow, who had a kind heart for neighborhood children; per Holly Hall's account on the Old West Durham website:

1974 The triangular building at the corner of Hillsborough and Lawndale appears to have housed a neighborhood store from the 1930s. Per the son of the owner, his father, Jack Cottingham, began his business in the building around 1940, with a specialization in making sausages. To quote Charlie Carden from one of several wonderful personal histories...

Garden Street Grocery, 1950s. (Courtesy Bob Blake) (Courtesy Old West Durham Neighborhood Association)

Prominent, architecturally significant 2-story brick commercial building located at the comer of Angier Ave., with a diagonal entrance facing the intersection. The building has housed many businesses, including the Boone Drug Store, CM Headache Powders, Dr. Shuler's office, and the Seagroves grocery.

The one-time LD Belvin Grocery, looking southeast, late 1950s. (Courtesy Bob Blake) LD Belvin's grocery appears to have been established in Bragtown between 1907 and 1911. I have very little information about the store, although it appears to have been no longer run by Belvin - and potentially no longer a grocery store - by sometime between 1920 and 1923. Looking east, late 1950s.

J.L. Page Grocery, late 1970s

904 and part of 902 Fayetteville St., 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The above picture most clearly shows 904 Fayetteville St., a commercial structure built in the late 1940s or early 1950s as a grocery store; it originally housed the Cut Rate Super Market, and, by the 1960s, Quality Foods Super Market.

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

618 Fayetteville, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)