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1960s - (Durham County Library)

From the National Register in italics below: The 1959 Durham City Directory lists the “GMAC Insurance Corporation” at 711 Rigsbee Avenue. The one-story, flat-roof brick office building of modest mid-century modern design is likely this office. The building is now adaptively reused as a bar known as "the bar." Red brick laid in running bond covers...

This simple cinder block building housed a bar called Edna and Lucky's. The building used to extend further, but was lost in a fire. Edna and Lucky's was demolished in 2009 or 2010 to make way for the expansion around the new Wal-Mart.

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...

"Turner's Store, 8 miles out Guess Road."

06.07.08 (Photo by Gary Kueber) 03.15.2011 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Renovated in 2011 as a bar, named "Surf Club," with a large patio where the parking lot is in the above pictures. 10.1.13 - Parking lot converted into outdoor seating that is dog friendly. Many friendly free roaming dogs can be seen in this enclosed garden. Photo by Andrius...

09.18.11 Home of the "Down Under Pub" from 199? until 2010, the bar reopened in 2011 as "The Roxy."

(Courtesy John Martin) Obverse reads: BLAIR HOUSE on US 15 and 501 between Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A Restaurant of Traditional Williamsburg design. Six dining rooms of varying size ranging in decor from rustic to formal. Recommended by Mobil Travel Guide. H.S. Finley, Manager Box 8735, Durham, N.C. Phone 489-9128 Blair House likely...

347-351 West Main is part of a row of early 1920s-era row buildings along the south side of Five Points that replaced earlier industrial buildings and frame commercial structures. In 1923, National Dollar Store was the tenant at 347, Noell Brothers Hardware at 349, and Dixie Clothing Company at 351. The earliest view I could find of the whole row...