Restaurant

Josh Turnage's barbecue restaurant on Morrene Road was a touchstone restaurant for an entire generation of folks growning up in Durham in the 1940s-1960s.

2103 N. Roxboro St., 1974 09.30.12

Reed Building ------------- The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties...

Looking south on Fayetteville St. from the middle of the 600 block, 1922. (S.) Elm St. is the intersection ahead and the transition to the 700 block. The east side of the 600 block would include the building on the left. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham.) The east side of the 600 block of Fayetteville St...

Stallion Club, 1968 The Stallion Club was a music / dance club which attracted a primarily African-American clientele, although it appears to have had somewhat of a cult following among predominantly white Duke students. Duke medical students and faculty at a party at the Stallion Club, 1971 (Courtesy Duke Medical Center) I'm not sure when the...

Looking northeast from Church St. and East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Commercial development of the north side of the 200 block of East Main St. proceeded eastward from the commercial core. The western half of the block was developed by commercial structures by the 1890s, two of which are visible above. By the early 20th century, the...

205-207 E. Main Looking northeast from Church St. and East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Commercial development of the north side of the 200 block of East Main St. proceeded eastward from the commercial core. The western half of the block was developed by commercial structures by the 1890s, two of which are visible above. This photo...

816 Ninth St., 09.12.09 Looking west from ~Iredell, ~1950. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The east side of the 800 block of Ninth St. was residential through much of the 20th century. A frame structure at the north end of the block housed the West Durham Wet Wash Laundry, which became the White Star Laundry, during the 1920s - before that...

From Durham and Her People, 1951 THE LAMP POST at 509 W. Chapel Hill St. is owned by Mrs. Robert W. Hays, daughter of the late J.A. and Mrs. Laura T. Duncan. The Lamp Post is unique in the field of catering in Durham. They are well and favorably known for the good food served.