Beauty Salon

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

700-702 Ninth Street was among the earliest commercial masonry structures built in West Durham, located at the corner of Hillsboro (later Perry) and Ninth, where the streetcar turned from Ninth Street towards Broad. It was built between 1907 and 1913. In 1926, it housed Brewers Drug Store in 700 and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (the A...

1983 1959 Aerial of 15th Street and Hillsborough Road. The four-bay commercial structure at the intersection of 15th St. and Hillsborough Rd. appears to have been built in 1958-59, replacing an earlier frame structure - a converted dwelling that had housed several businesses. John Schelp was able to provide me pictures of one of the interior...

2603 Hillsborough, 1950s. (Courtesy Old West Durham) The three-bay commercial structure once located at the corner of 16th St. and Hillsborough Road appears to have been built in the early to mid 1920s, and was first home to the Hillsborough Road Drug Co. Midgett's Barber Shop was added by the late 1920s.

801 Fayetteville (not on a corner - the change from 700 to 800 occurred where St. Joseph St. intersected but did not cross Fayetteville) was built in the late 1920s, and initially housed Malone's Cafe. By the 1940s, it housed Elvira's Blue Tavern, before that establishment moved to its Pettigrew St. location in the late 1940s.

713, 715, 717 Fayetteville St., 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The multi-bay commercial structure at 713-717 Fayetteville St. appears to have been built circa 1930. By the mid 1930s, 713 housed Max Zuckerman's meat market, 715 William Boykin's tailor shop, and 717 the Carolina Barber Shop.

Looking southwest at the 700 block of Fayetteville St., 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald Sun)

618 Fayetteville, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

612-614 Fayetteville St. appears to have been built in the late 1920s; 612 housed Loftin's Bakery during the 1930s. By 1941, 612 had become Rose's Beauty Salon and 614 the Home Modernization and Supply Company. The Home Modernization and Supply Company remaned in business at this location for the next 25 years. 612 became the Service Tailor Shop and Eagle Sport Shop before it was occupied by the Bull City Barber College in 1957. 612 Fayetteville, 1962.

(Courtesy State of North Carolina Archives) 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. 544 East Pettigrew is the two-story structure to the right of Cozart Street.