Wednesday, July 23, 2008

NE CORNER - NORTH MANGUM AND WEST GEER

I have no picture of the frame house that stood on the northeast corner of North Mangum and West Geer Streets prior to the 1930s - by 1937, it had been replaced with a simple 'filling station' in the common style of the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1950s, this station had been expanded to include garage bays to the rear.


Looking northeast, 1952
(Courtesy Wayne Henderson)

I'm not sure of when this was last a gas station - it's currently the "Good Works Bargain Store."


Looking northeast, 06.23.08


36.003918,-78.894337

4 comments:

Humus said...

Interesting. Good Works as in John of Good Works? It just seems to me that John and you ought to be on the same side.

Dessert destination said...

There is some awesome Masonic art for sale in that store, check it out.

Geer Mangum said...

I just assumed it was another Ronnie "Bring Oprah to Durham" Sturdivant project. It's not?

Anonymous said...

its an actual hones to god thrift store...open to all people...walk on in sometime

TSQ75