Restaurant

Rinaldi's - 1117 W. Main St.

09.11.59 (Courtesy Herald-Sun) 1117 West Main, 1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) I don't know a lot about Rinaldi's restaurant - except for a few lines I've found how Duke students and others used to go to Rinaldi's for the burgers in the 1950s. The yearbooks from the 1940s and 1950s are replete with references to Rinaldi's as a student hangout. I've...

Bartlett and Sarah Mangum House / Four Square

Exuberant Victorian country house to which the city came over time; converted to a restaurant in the 1970s.

1102 Gann Street

04.08.69 - looking south along Alston Avenue from East Pettigrew. 01.05.67 - looking west/northwest 01.05.67 - same picture as above, uncropped wider view of the intersection of Glenn Street and Alston Avenue, looking west. 02.12.12 Demolished in 2015, presumably for the widening of Alston Avenue. 07.28.15 (G. Kueber)

Sw Corner Church & E Main: 130 East Main

Looking west on East Main St. from Church St., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The building on the southwest corner of Church St. and East Main was Johnson's drugstore; the building immediately to its east was another commercial building, although I don't know what type of business was located there. Upstairs from Johnson's drugstore was the site of...

Leo's Seafood

2625 Hillsborough Road

06.06.09 Ad in Duke Chronicle, October 3, 1969. Ad in Duke Chronicle, November 14, 1968. 1969 keg contest for Duke students. 1974 1974 1974 1978 ad Jim's lives on. View from Trent, December 24, 2014. As of 2014, this building was under renovation to house a new (second) location of "Cocoa Cinnamon," a café that started on the northeast corner of W...

McDonald's - Avondale & Roxboro

1973 Durham High School Yearbook (thanks to Steve Bowen for calling my attention to this.) (Northern High School Yearbook)

3003 Guess Rd.

Oh Boy! Drive-In

1959 (DHS Messenger via DigitalNC) 1960 (DHS Messenger via DigitalNC)

2002 Hillsborough Rd.

1974 Likely built for Pizza Place when they moved from their location at 107-109 East Chapel Hill Street; was still Pizza Palace up until 2004, when the restaurant moved to Guess Road. At some point, the restaurant was expanded with the brick facade on the west and south faces. Georgio jumped into a venture here with Grasshopper Asian Kitchen. It...