COOKE'S CAFE
200 South Gregson, looking east, 1948. Cooke's is on the far left.
The few blocks of Gregson Street south of the tracks were mostly residential well into the 1950s - however, immediately adjacent to the tracks - and the businesses just to the north - was Cooke's cafe. I don't know a thing about the menu at Cooke's, but I do know that they managed to explode themselves in 1957.
Looking east, 12.05.57.
(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper
Looking northwest, 12.05.57
(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper
Today it's a parking lot for the tired-looking Tobacco Workers Union building (is there a tobacco workers union here anymore?)
Looking northeast, 12.09.07
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Wow, that blowed up real good. :)
From Google:
Tobacco Workers International Union
205 S. Gregson St.
Durham, NC 27701
(919) 682-5989
So apparantly they are still around, though I don't know how active they are.
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