Restaurant

The Chicken Hut, originally The Chicken Box, was founded in 1958 by Claiborne Tapp Jr. and his sister Julia Tapp. The restaurant was first located on Apex Highway, serving out of a concession stand. Julia was inspired by the shape of the stand and coined the name "The Chicken Box." The Tapps then relocated to 410 S Roxoboro Street in 1961 where the...

1102-1104 Broad (with Somethyme on the left,) 1974 1102-1104 Broad St., 06.27.09 1102-1104 Broad was built in the late 1940s, initially housing Sanders Florist at 1102 and the Hostess Restaurant at 1104. In ~1974, 1104 became the location of Somethyme, Mary Bacon's restaurant that was the forerunner for Pyewacket in Chapel Hill, and the very...

1102-1104 Holloway Street, 10.02.10 1102-1104 Holloway appears to have been built between 1923 and 1928. In 1928, "B's Home Cash Grocery" is a business located at this address. In 1934, it is referred to as "Beck's Cash Grocery." In 1941, 1102 had converted to a part of the Purity Stores grocery chain, and 1104 was Pop's Place, confectionery. These...

707-709 Fayetteville, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Scanned by Digital Durham)

806 Ninth St., 09.12.09 Looking west from ~Iredell, ~1950. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The east side of the 800 block of Ninth St. was residential through much of the 20th century. A frame structure at the north end of the block housed the West Durham Wet Wash Laundry, which became the White Star Laundry, during the 1920s - before that...

The residential portion of Mangum still extended south into the 400 block of Mangum when this picture was taken in the early 1920s. The houses are variably visible past the gas station, looking northwest from the intersection of North Mangum and East Chapel Hill St. With ~10 years, the commercial expansion of downtown had claimed these residences with a produce market and a (used) car dealership.