Wurlitzer Table Model 61 – 1938.

The Coca Cola clock in the right-hand window reminds us that he who has one clock always knows what time it is. He who has two is never quite sure.

Perhaps blusun meant the Coca-Cola clock to the right below the Atlantic Ale/Beer neon sign?

[Well duh. Thankyou! - Dave]

In the back of my mind I can still hear the chants of F.E.Boone and Speed Riggs selling that fine, that ripe, that mild tobacco. Did you know doctors prefer Luckies 2-1?!

I threw almost a full pack of luckies in the trash in 1974 after an endless coughing spell - a weak later the cough went away and never returned

Looking at auctions, the Coca-Cola clock is worth about $6K.

I tied many of those bundles of tobacco and knelt in those wooden baskets to pad them up. The baskets are becoming collectors items. I remember well standing in the warehouse to see the auctioneers and buyers pass through and make or break your year.

When I first moved to Durham in the early 1980s, the city still had a sweet, distinctive aroma of curing tobacco in its downtown district. Over the years that fragrance disappeared, and many of these warehouse/auction houses have been leveled to make way for high-dollar condominium complexes. Thank you for a reminder of a simpler time.