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Submitted by kris (not verified) on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 3:55pm
I think I found it. Lincoln Theatre, 311 N. Church St., Winston-Salem.
http://www.digitalforsyth.org/photos/8258
I will try to find out more about this place.
Submitted by Steve R (not verified) on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 3:59pm
Trying to read all the store names...
"Wade's Shoe Shop"
"Wade Cornish Cafe"
(A Wade Cornish, an RJR employee) lived in Winston Salem in the 1920s)
"Southern (?) Fidelity Insurance Co."
Can't read the physician's name in the upper center window...
Notes:
The movie "The Vigilantes Are Coming" is from 1936.
The "Southern Dairies" ad (for a free popsicle) on one of the movie signs: There was a Southern Dairies Ice Cream store in Durham.
Submitted by kris (not verified) on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 4:01pm
Information from two of the photos helps piece together the name of the shop on the right: Wade's Wine Shop. The store on the other side of the theatre is Wade Cornish Café. So I googled people named Wade Cornish who lived in the South (note: free "Southern Dairy" ice cream on sign) and found a Jessie Wade Cornish living in Forsyth County during that time. Notice that the "Wade Cornish" is not centered over the word "Café" so there was probably an omitted first initial, which I'm guessing is "J." So, probably Winston-Salem. So I looked up theatres in W-S that catered mainly to African-Americans and found this photo in DigitalForsyth's searchable database under "theatre." Gotta be Lincoln Theatre.
Submitted by kris (not verified) on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 4:15pm
Additional photos:
http://www.digitalforsyth.org/photos/browse/business-industry-businesse…
Submitted by Gary (not verified) on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 6:11pm
Again, nice job Kris. You should teach Advanced Googling.
GK
Submitted by David Jeffreys (not verified) on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 2:49am
Gary, I think Kris is a new volunteer Endangered Durham staff member!
Great work on these mystery photos, Kris!
Submitted by Marsosudiro (not verified) on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 3:19pm
Yeah, Kris!
Now if we could only get a name for the "Anonymous" person who often posts good stuff. (Gary - you probably know, but the rest of us/me don't and I want to know who to admire.)
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