Service Station

A Tilley store and Gulf Station, this building has been a barber shop, TV service, and a church since that time.

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Reeves Gulf Service, 1956 (Duke Chanticleer)

224 East Parrish Street, 01.66 There's not a lot of info about the 200 block of East Parrish St., and a lack of early pictures. The only pictures I have are from the mid-late 1960s, in the waning days of these buildings. Looking east from Church and E. Parrish. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A view from the eastern end of the block, looking...

A row of 2-story commercial structures were built at the northern peak of the 'triangle' formed by the acute angle of the intersection of Fayetteville and Whitted Sts. These seem to have housed barber shops at 701 and 703 Fayetteville; 705 Fayetteville was the Electric Theater, a vaudeville and movie theater opened in 1913 by FK Watkins, the 'Movie...

Bailey's - an Esso Station with a drive up / curb service area on its west side. A popular hangout for Duke students, shown in this 1956 shot Bailey's Esso, 1966 - with Scott Coal and the Smith Warehouse in the background. (Courtesy Jim Urquhart, Jr.) 10.15.11

The 'wide end' of the western Five Points was residential property until the early-mid 1920s 1913 Sanborn map showing the western triangle of Five Points and the large residential structure at its western end. By 1925, the large house had been torn down, and the land was set for auction. Looking southeast from Great Jones St. and West Main St., 09...

The 900 block of Fayetteville St., by the 1940s, began the southern transition to the more residential portion of the Hayti neighborhood. The southeast corner of Glenn St. and Fayetteville St. had become Star Taxi by 1938, and Parham's Gulf Service Station by the 1940s. (Carolina Gulf by the early 1950s, Southside Service Station (a Shell Station) by the mid 1950s. 901 Fayetteville, 1962.

North Roxboro Road, 1970s (Courtesy Durham County Library)

Looking southeast from Cleveland St., just north of the Church/Liberty/Cleveland intersection - 1966. Looking east, 1938. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The intersection of Liberty/Cleveland/Church Sts. formed an interesting intersection - sort of an 'inverted Y'. This area was a mix of neighborhood commercial, apartment buildings, and single family...