Ninth Street

772-774 Ninth, 02.20.51 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Looking southeast, 02.20.51 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The Dennis Service Station was built in the late 1920s. By the late 1940s, it had become the West Russell Amoco Service Station. At some point between the 1940s and 1970s, the building was replaced by a more modern service station building, sans awning.

756-760 Ninth St. was built in the early 1930s. 756 housed Southern Dry Cleaners as its original tenant, and 758-760 housed Pender’s Stores and Parragon 5¢ to $1 Store, respectively. 756 Ninth would house the Southern Dry Cleaners until 1980, while 758-760 had a variety of other tenants: 1940s: 758 Colonial Stores gros 760 Royal Sandwich Co 1950s: 758-760: Red & White Super Mkt gros (later Eaubanks Red and White)

(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Built in the late 1920s, 754 initially housed Pender's Stores, which moved from next door (752 Ninth St.) By the late 1930s, Columbia Billard Parlor was located there. This became Pop's Billiard Parlor by the 1940s, and part of Southern Dry Cleaners, which expanded from next door at 756 Ninth, by the late 1940s...

744-752 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Built in the early 1920s, 748-752 Ninth St. housed Bowen’s Barber Shop at 748, Universal Stores Inc at 750, and Pender Stores Co at 752 in 1926. 1930: 748 West Durham Market meats 750 Moser’s Barber Shop 752 Universal Stores Co Inc (br) bros 1930s-1940s

744-752 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 746 Ninth St. housed "Overton and Riley" in 1926 - it isn't noted what type of business this was. By 1930, this was the "Little Gift Shop." By the 1940s, 744 Ninth housed Parragon's 5 and 10 cent store, and 746 housed the Quality Clothing Co. (men's wear.) This became Gordon's clothes store by the 1950s.

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.

734-738 Ninth, early 1920s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Looking northeast, early 1920s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Ninth St., looking northeast from near Stack St., ~1920s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)