Billiards

Labor Temple, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) In April 1941, the heirs of Mary A. Green - longtime resident of a home at this address who had bought the land from A. M. Rigsbee in the 1880s - sold this parcel to trustees of the Plumbers & Steamfitters Union, Local 585. By the next year, along with more than two dozen other 'locals' affiliated through...

05.13.07 Angle view, 05.13.07 1925: Excelsior Barber Shop (1st), Science Seekers Club (!) (2nd) 1935: Lucky Strike Billard Parlor (1st), Odell Green, watchmaker (2nd.) 1947: Adcock's Cafe 09.10.11

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...

(Courtesy Duke Archives) The 400 block of East Chapel Hill Street was primarily transformed from a residential into a commercial street in the 1920s. The above picture shows 401, 405, 407, and 415 had been built by 1924. Looking east down East Chapel Hill, 1927 (Courtesy Durham County Library) By the 1940s, the block was built out.

Above, the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., looking southeast, 1924. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

04.26.08 Constructed by Fred Roll around 1920, the building served as a grocery store and pool hall - primarily catering to customers of Lakewood Park. Per the Historic Inventory, the last grocery operator was Marvin Mangum. The upstairs was an apartment - one of Fred Roll's daughters lived in the apartment for several years.