Wagons in vintage Street scenes

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    605 East Main, the Womble Pharmacy, looking northeast.
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    Welcome 50s shoppers!
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    Looking southeast, ~1957
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    The Farlee Drive Inn is behind this motel for those of you to make out in your car :evilsmile:
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    Durham Armory, 1963.
    It remains a civic center today, used for a variety of community functions.
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    Breaking ground for a shiny new set of office buildings (twin towers) proposed this site.
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    (Courtesy Durham County Library)
    Breaking ground was quite the celebratory affair.
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    The city, I believe, paid for a parking deck to be built below the building, and Frank Wittenberg built one out of two towers on the eastern part of the site.
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    a view of the other end of the block, looking northeast, shows Durham Sporting Goods, which was likely the same western-most building in the block, given a modernist makeover.

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