Eubanks Drug Store (later Courts' Drugs)

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• Eubanks Drug Store, Chapel Hill, 1897–1964

1. 1901 Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own Eubanks left the Central Hotel and set up his drugstore in a new building he had put up on the west corner of the Tankersley property on Franklin Street. People: Clyde Eubanks Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 179
2. Summer 1913 Carl Durham begins work at Eubanks Drug Store in Chapel Hill Carl Durham, born in 1892 in the White Cross community of Orange County, went to work at Eubanks Drugstore in Chapel Hill in the summer of 1913. He qualified as a pharmacy apprentice by 1916, studied pharmacy at UNC, served in the Navy Hospital Corps in 1918 and came back to Eubanks as a pharmacist. NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Durham, Carl Thomas (Warner Wells, 1986) · Also: Open Orange: Carl Durham
3. 1914 Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own on Franklin Street Clyde Eubanks put up a new building on his own lot, about a hundred yards west of the Tankersley-owned store he had rented, and moved Eubanks Drug Store into it. Robert Foister's camera shop took the old space. People: Clyde Eubanks Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207
4. January 1964 Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs Clyde Eubanks, a Chapel Hill druggist since 1892, retired in January 1964 at 93, after selling the East Franklin store property to North Carolina National Bank, and druggist Ben Courts took over the store under a six-month lease. Bryant says Benjamin and Ellyn Courts renamed it Courts' Drugs, kept it where it was for about two years and moved it to University Square East in 1967 when the bank began expanding. The News of Orange reported in December 1964 that Courts would open the store in new quarters on East Franklin Street, next to Chez Kemp, on January 1, 1965, as the bank was taking over the old building. People: Clyde Eubanks Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 323 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 30, 1964, p. 6; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 10, 1964, p. 1
5. January 27, 1964 Chapel Hill merchants name 93-year-old druggist Clyde Eubanks Merchant of the Year At its installation banquet on Monday, January 27, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association named Clyde Eubanks, who had worked in the town since 1892, its Merchant of the Year for 1963 on the eve of his retirement. His store property had been sold to North Carolina National Bank, and druggist Ben Courts was to run the store under a six-month lease. People: Carl T. Durham The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 30, 1964, p. 6

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