This pic is taken at the wrong intersection. This is national and macon. too far west. sweden kream was at national and homer. the grocery store next to it was a big star ( i think) which is now a car repair garage. I grew up a few blocks from the old ice cream place and used to walk down and get a cone during the summer.
Best soft ice cream in town!!!!

There was a Woolco on Jackson Avenue near Plough, Zayre was on Summer Avenue near Graham.

The building in the picture at the corner of National and Macon was "Dipper Dan the Ice Cream Man" during the 1960's.

As for the Sweden Kreme, it's at the corner of National and Bayliss. The auto repair business door was originally the National Tea Company grocery store. The manager was Mr. Maurice Cooper, a very nice gentlemman indeed. It later became a Delfarm's Big "D" grocery. I remember a half gallon of milk selling for 37¢ and individual bags of Frito's for a nickel. Diagonally across from (on the southwest corner of National and Bayliss, (1457 National) was the original commercial location of John Frye's Ardent Recording Studio (circa 1966).

I could bike up to Sweden Kreme in the 1960s/early 70s. On the corner of Townes and National, and Jackson--they all came together at the base of the viaduct, was the bus turn-around, and the J. T. Hill Tile Co.

Across the street at the base of the viaduct was a veterinarian's office that opened in the early sixties. It was in an old red brick house that predated the viaduct, but was later replaced in the 70's with a more "normal" looking clinic. One of the veterinarians there was named Duncan.

I went to church with the owners of Sweden Kreme - my cousins worked there. The Gospel Advocate bookstore was right across the street.

I remember going to Dipper Dan's as a child. They had the little ice cream parlor chairs and tables. For many years the "Dipper Dan" name was still in the tile at the front door. Diagonally across from that was Sisco's grocery store.

Anyone remember a few stores from my childhood in Frayser? J.B. Hunter and Zayer's, Skaggs Drugstore. There was another store like Target that I can't remember the name of. Wnet out of business very late 70's or early 80's. Help me remember?

Zayre was on summer. JB Hunter was on Frayser Boulevard..a great place to buy Halloween costumes if I remember correctly! I lived in Raleigh, but we went regularly to Frayser to JB Hunter. I remember back-to-school shopping at both Zayre and JB Hunter, before the Raleigh Mall was built in the early 70's.

I grew up in the National Cemetery area and went to Gragg School during the 60s and 70s. The neighborhood was called Nutbush then as it is now. We used to go to Sweden Cream for the foot long chili dogs, they were great! I went back to the old neighborhood a few months ago and went to Sweden Cream for a chili dog, just wasn't the same. The area was starting to decline when I left to join the Air Force, and it just got worse.

My dad and his sister grew up in this area and also went to Gragg. Their mother moved to the area in 1910. The street where they lived and built their home on was Kruger. The house that my grandparents built is still there, a cousin lives in it now and has for years. From what she told me, there were very few houses there and the area would flood from the waters of the Wolf River.

I remember hearing the mooing of cows that were kept in a field next to my house on Meyers. This was during the early 60s, before the Sears Warehouse was built.

My family was the Pickens family. We lived on Kendrick off Jackson in the 60's and 70s.We moved about 77'.Does anyone remember Quickie's on Jackson, I seem to remember the man who ran the store was named Johnny and also the drugstore next to it, I think it is now a mexican eatery. I only have good memories of growing up in the old neighborhood, but last time I went over that way it sure had changed.We also attended Gragg elementary and went to Orchi Baptist Church,takes you back .

Does anyone remember the horse stables that was on jackson near where I240 was built. It was close to Jackson and they had some really cute boys over there sadding horses, most of them were from Treadwell, one being a guy named Jimmy, maybe Lawson, really cute, way back in the early 60s.

I remember the stables. I went there once...but my 2 older sisters went all the time Diane and Jean Welch. We lived on waring road across Macon. Yeah the boys is why they went there too...lol

The supermarket was Big Star (if that wasn't already mentioned).

Jill and Janet - that was the horse stables that you could ride all the way back behind the old drive in movie theater on Summer Avenue on the east side of town wasn't it? I spent a LOT of time out there . . . a LOT.

Jimmy

It was a Big Star. It was Lands Big Star. Mr. Land owned it. Big Stars generally had the owners name attached to it.