These photographs are of Pee Wee's Shoe Shop, that was located at 618 Fayetteville St. Durham, NC. This shop was opened in 1959.
Photographed February of 1971 by Alex Harris, @ourstrangenewland

Pee Wee's Shoe Shop was located up the hill from St. Joseph's church on Fayetteville St. in Durham, NC.

618 Fayetteville Street was built in the early 1920's as the Hayti Drug Store.
By 1941 it had become the Hayti Grocery Store.

A series of uses followed:
Edith's Beauty Salon in the late 1940's.
Trixie's Sport Shop and the Square Club in the 1950's.
Pee Wee's Shoe Shop in 1959.
Simply Short Shop/Shoe Shinner in 1961.
Johnnie's in the mid-1960's.
And the John E. Payne Real Estate Cp. in 1968.

Photograph credit: Alex Harris -

Narrative credit: Open durham nc