Produce Market

402 Morgan Street

1940s (William Franklin Warren Collection, Durham County Library) The north side of the 400 block of Morgan (between Morris and Roney) and the north side of the 300 block of Morgan (between Roney and Foster) contained primarily small, commercial structures. Morgan St., even more so than Chapel Hill St., contained fewer retail establishments and...

517 Bacon Street

This commercial structure was once a neighborhood grocery and produce stand.

312 Poplar Street

Murdock Building

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)

740-742 Ninth

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.

420 South Street

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

534-536 East Pettigrew

(Courtesy State Archives) Looking south towards the block of East Pettigrew between Henry Alley (intersecting street on the right) and Cozart St. (intersecting street next to Speight's service station, on the left) - ~1940s.

415 North Mangum St.

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.