Nightclub

308 West Main Street - Friedman's/ Ringside

308 West Main was built circa 1906 by John Sprunt Hill. According to city directories, the first tenants were a physician, C. E. King and Sons druggists, and the Durham Art Shop. In the picture below, the last 3-story building moving right to left is 308 West Main - one of the last buildings surviving in this block - the Temple Building and its...

827 Morgan St.

02.66 I feel almost as if it were some sort of failing that, after a cumulative 20 years in Durham (as of 2012,) I've never once ventured into Shooters (II). It's always surprisingly difficult to find out the history of a place like this without going to interview someone - or if a post like this inspires a comment from the institutional memory out...

Broadway And Ward Grocery Store - 2013 Chapel Hill Rd.

04.26.08 (Below in italics is from the 2003 Lakewood Park National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Broadway and Ward Grocery Store. One-story brick, flat-roofed commercial building with a parapet roof with terra cotta coping, walls of running bond veneer, and a glass storefront with metal door and window trim. Small...

600 Foster St.

600 Foster St. was built circa 1958-1959 as a branch of the Home Savings and Loan. By the late 1960s, the building had been re-purposed as an appliance store known as Miller-Hurst. Miller-Hurst, late 1960s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) By 1970, the building was definitely no longer selling dishwashers. Paradise...