602 NORTH MANGUM / UDI SUPERMARKET
600 block of North Mangum - 602 is the house in the lower right hand corner.
602 N. Mangum was built in the early 20th century; Mrs. MF Happer lived in the house in 1919. Sometime in the 1960s, the house was demolished.
As an early project of United Durham Incorporated (UDI,) a supermarket was built to serve a community that was no longer served by supermarkets.
(Courtesy DCL - NC Collection)
(Courtesy UNC - Billy Barnes Collection)
The supermarket was not a success - I don't know much about the story, but the building remains.
UDI later (much) worked to bring a Food Lion to an abandoned supermarket site on Fayetteville St.; I don't know how they are doing, but it's certainly still around.
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Hopefully the supermarket vibrations will be more favorable directly across the street from here at 607 N. Mangum, future home of the Durham Central Market. More info at http://durhamcentralmarket.org/
You missed a whole era. This place also used to be a night club. I won a rap contest but was too young to enter. This was the late '80s. I need to find that song.
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