Sunday, May 29, 2011

CARDEN ALLEY


05.08.11

One of those great tucked-away, small town in the middle of Durham kind of spots, Carden Alley feels a bit like a place out of time to me.

Find this spot on a Google Map.

35.981962,-78.879413

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4 comments:

bmc said...

Reminds me of Bay St.

May 29, 2011 at 8:32 PM
Rob Gillespie said...

Also reminds me a lot of Rome Ave.

Who was it that originally paved alleys as driveways, instead of asphalt?

The 800 block of Exum is also paved with concrete. I always assumed that DCLT was involved, as they have done a lot to turn the street around. Was it the city, though?

May 30, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Ken said...

When I was child I use to go with my father on occasion to do chores for Miss Ila House and Miss Rosa Vickers. They lived at the end of this street. Miss House was a teacher at Y.E. Smith School and beat many a child for learning too slowly. Here meanness and cruelty was legendary.

June 3, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Vivian Taylor Briggs said...

I lived the first ten years of my life at 310 Carden Alley.I am 62 years old now. The house has been torn down. I used to help Miss House and Mrs. Vickers tend to their garden. My younger sister had Miss House as a first grade teacher. My sister was spanked quite a lot by Miss House. Mrs. Vickers was one of the sweetest ladies that I had ever known.-Vivian Taylor Briggs

June 13, 2011 at 8:49 PM

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