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Submitted by skvidal (not verified) on Tue, 6/16/2009 - 2:21am
It is interesting to me how this site has changed. When I first moved to durham there was no real reason for me to notice this set of buildings. Nothing I'd go to regularly, no reason to seek it out. Then locopops moves in and within 6 months I'm giving people directions to find my house using this building as a landmark ("You know where locopops is? Then take the next left ....."). Thanks for the history.
Submitted by Marsosudiro (not verified) on Tue, 6/16/2009 - 1:39pm
Vogue!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inBMxTa9qeQ
Madonna live -- and now I see why concert tix can cost so much.
BTW: when did Don Hill drop the gun store?
Submitted by John Schelp (not verified) on Tue, 6/16/2009 - 1:46pm
In the past, real estate ads for places in Old West Durham said, "near Duke and Ninth Street."
Now they say, "near Locopops, Duke and Ninth Street."
BTW, Hillsboro Road and Ninth Street were once part of the "Central Highway" -- the first route to cross North Carolina. Early road proponents dubbed it "the magnificent state route number 10" (stretching from Beaufort to Murphy).
Old NC 10 was renamed US 70 when the federal government started designating national highways in the mid-twenties.
http://www.owdna.org/snaps7.htm
Submitted by Carl (not verified) on Tue, 6/16/2009 - 8:51pm
No love for the old Judys Joke Shop?
Submitted by gazebo (not verified) on Wed, 6/17/2009 - 5:43pm
When I moved to Durham in the mid-90s, Don Hill's Lock & Safe was Don Hill's Lock & GUNS. My impression was that the store was bigger - and encompassed the storefront that is now locopops. But from your post, it sounds like I dreamed that up?
Too bad, because it makes a great swords-into-plowshares - or more accurately guns-into-popsicle-sticks story!
Submitted by Steven@Nevets on Sat, 9/28/2024 - 4:12am
In reply to When I moved to Durham in the by gazebo (not verified)
In the early to mid-1970s, it was Don Hills's Lock & Gun and they kept a civil-war era cannon on the sidewalk out front chained to the telephone pole. The store was not too wide across the front, but it was deep. Just inside the front door stood a grandfather clock and the floor was old tongue & groove wood that creaked when you walked on it. The outside brick wall faced a tire shop next door (heading toward Ninth Street) and that wall was pained with a giant American Flag with the store's name below it. There was no other store between the tire shop and Don Hill's place.
Submitted by Steven@Nevets on Sat, 9/28/2024 - 4:13am
In reply to When I moved to Durham in the by gazebo (not verified)
In the early to mid-1970s, it was Don Hills's Lock & Gun and they kept a civil-war era cannon on the sidewalk out front chained to the telephone pole. The store was not too wide across the front, but it was deep. Just inside the front door stood a grandfather clock and the floor was old tongue & groove wood that creaked when you walked on it. The outside brick wall faced a tire shop next door (heading toward Ninth Street) and that wall was pained with a giant American Flag with the store's name below it. There was no other store between the tire shop and Don Hill's place.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 7/5/2009 - 1:54pm
gazebo, you are not mistaken. The shop did use the area that is now locopops. We decided to rent that side when we dropped the guns in 2002. That locations was also Judy's Joke until about 1990. Judy is the daughter of Don Hill Sr.
We have looked into having the parking lot wall turned into a mural, but the city won't let us use any refernce to the businesses located in the building. Some kind of sign ordinace.
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