Archive for April, 2012
Plaza, Percival Road: 1980s(?) 4 comments
Well, here's another property of indeterminate address. I know that it's at the north-west corner of Percival Road and Jamaica Street, but I didn't see an address on the property, and google is not helpful here. It's certainly in-between John Boy's Auto Repair & Service at 2921 and Stone's Wholesale at 3001.
Just looking at the place, I suspect this was a failed retail strip-mall, but it could also have been a service plaza. Either way, I have no memory of having seen it in operation, though I must have. It appears that all the windows were broken out at some point, or perhaps there was a fire inside. At any rate the place is in poor shape at this point.
Cache' Hair Designs / Deliverence Cathedral, 6624 Shakespeare Road: 2010 no comments
This building on the South side of Shakespeare Road near Columbia Mall has been a number of things over the years, none of which really made an impression on me.
Judging from google, the last two seem to have been a hair salon, which closed sometime before 2009, and a church, which seems to have moved last year.
As far as I can tell, at least going by the lack of signage, the building is currently vacant, but also as far as I can tell, it does not seem to be for sale.
Richland County Industrial Park, Clemson Road: never opened 4 comments
Awesome Mattress, 7201 Parklane Road: 2011 2 comments
I don't know if this was the same Awesome Mattress business that was on on Two Notch in the old Zesto building that is now Hola Mexico, or a different one. If it was the same one, it didn't last too long in its new location, wihch is not one that catches my eye often. In fact, I don't ever recall going to this little Columbia Mall outparcel strip-mall for anything, and would be hard pressed to name any store that has ever been there..
UPDATE 1 June 2012 -- It's now a Richland County Sherriff's station:
Mr B's Railroad Tavern / etc, 8444 Parklane Road (Old Legrand Road) / 6531 Two Notch Road: 1991 / 2000 35 comments
This distressed building, on Old Legrand Road just off of Parklane near the Farrow intersection, was obviously a store of some sort, judging from the marquee space above doors in front. It also appears to have had a really nice ceiling at one time, though no more. I considered taking a closer look at the back rooms which are visible here, but decided that was the kind of place where people who don't want company might stay. There's what appears to be a pump shed on the right side of the building, so I'm guessing this place was never on city water.
Google has a pretty good satellite view of the place:
Looking at that, it appears there is another decrepit building on the same lot further back from the road.
UPDATE 14 April 2012: Commenter sugarbear1 provides one of the names for this place: Mr. B's Railroad Tavern. I have put that in the post title and have taken out the generic "Building". Also changed the "1970s" closing date to "1990s".
UPDATE 15 April 2012: Changed the closing date again to "late 2000s" based on the fantastic photos commenter Dennis dug up (check his link in the comments).
UPDATE 24 April 2012: OK, I did some research at the library. Interestingly, this location apparently never had a telephone listing, and I had to get the infromation from on "city" directories.
The first such listing is in the 1983 city directory, and gives the address (which is clearly *now* on Old Legrand Road) as 8444 Parklane Road. The listing is for
Mr. B's Railroad Tavern (Thos Hammonds)
I assume Thomas Hammonds was either the business owner or the property owner..
The last listing was in the 1991 city directory, and the 1992 directory lists the address as "vacant".
The Febuary 1993 Bellsouth directory is the first to list Mr. B's Railroad Tavern as being at 6531 Two Notch Road. The last listing was in the February 2000 directory. Here is a shot of what's currently at that location:
I'll note also, that it turns out "Mr. B's" is a pretty popular name for various places, and there were a number of other places with that prefix during the same time period. In fact, there is currently a Mr. B's at 3128 Two Notch Road just east of Beltline which appears to be a bar and venue.
Eddie's / The Vista Grill, 1301 Assembly Street: March 2012 7 comments
Little Folks Place, Inc. / Kiddie Kollege Pre-School, 1540 Bush River Road: 2000s 8 comments
Amoco Food Mart, 6001 Monticello Road: mid 2000s 7 comments
Hope Your Easter Is More Supial Than Not! no comments
Maryland Fried Chicken / Rockingham's / Triangle City Diner, 1237 D Avenue: 1970s 8 comments
There are still some Maryland Fried Chicken restaurants on the Grand Strand, but they seem to have abandoned the Midlands sometime between the February 1976 phonebook (above) and the February 1985 one. This building, in Triangle City, is still standing, and still a restaurant, but now it's True BBQ. You have to love the pigs, and the sauce names.
UPDATE 5 April 2012: Added Rockingham's and Triangle City Diner to the post title based on the comments, and google.