Richland Office Equipment [ aka Richland Office Supply], 619 Beltline Boulevard: early 2000s 13 comments
This distinctive building is on Beltline between Rosewood and Devine Street. I don't know if they were the original tenant, but for many years it was an office supply store. I never went there myself, as I was living out of town for most of the time between when I started using "office equipment" (essentially printers in my case) and when I started buying supplies online. I'm pretty sure my sister did find a ribbon for the antique Brother "Diablo 630 compatible!" daisy-wheel printer I set her up with. Those things had a really unique machine-gun type staccato sound they made as the wheel spun and the solenoid hammerd the letters onto the page. I found the fan-fold paper feed almost impossible to adjust correctly such that it wouldn't gradually mangle the paper..
Anyway, the place was in the 1998 phonebook, but I believe Dollar General has been there pretty much for most of this century.
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jamie
29 Jun 10 at 6:34 am
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It was built as a Red & White back in the 1960s.
Tom
29 Jun 10 at 8:37 am
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Was that building ever a steak house? Seems like I remember that.
Dennis
29 Jun 10 at 8:45 am
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In one of the other threads there was some speculation that it might have been Ponderosa.
badger
29 Jun 10 at 9:26 am
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There was a Ponderosa at Trenholm Plaza and one of Two Notch, if I recall correctly. I do not recall this being a steak house. There was a Burger Chef next to it in the 60s.
Tom
29 Jun 10 at 12:47 pm
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There was Ponderosa at Trenholm plaza, and one on Knox Abbott Drive, but I don't recall one on Two Notch.
ted
29 Jun 10 at 3:01 pm
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I thought at one point (maybe originally) a smaller incarnation of the building was a Burger Chef like this:
Mike
29 Jun 10 at 4:13 pm
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Was this maybe a motorcycle shop at one time???
badger
29 Jun 10 at 4:24 pm
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@Mike -- it's possible. My 1970 phonebook says there was a Burger Chef at 511 Beltline Boulevard. That's the current address of the Doctor's Care, but I have found from time to time that street numbers can change.
ted
29 Jun 10 at 4:28 pm
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You're probably right--I just remember there being a Burger Chef around that area. I wouldn't think the street numbers would change since there is a side-street separating the two buildings and the Dollar General's street number is 619.
Mike
29 Jun 10 at 5:37 pm
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That Doctor's Care was originally a Roy Rogers -- the only one in Columbia, I believe.
It didn't last long and was obviously heavily remodeled.
I think that for a very brief time after Roy Rogers closed it was a Kenny Rogers Roasters.
Dennis
29 Jun 10 at 6:13 pm
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The Arby's at 1222 Charleston Hy. West Columbia, was originally a "Roy Rodgers" restaurant A long time ago.
I was there when a ceiling light crashed down! NO it did not hit any one!
"Bo""Bo"
30 Jun 10 at 4:45 pm
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The Arby's at that location goes back to at least the early '70s so a Roy Rogers would have had to have been before that.
I still have coupon books from there and remember when the only seating was on some patio furniture tables in front of the building.
Mike
30 Jun 10 at 9:50 pm
That was a Red and White grocery store back in the early seventies and at one point it was a Speed Shop (was it Po Boy's Speed Shop?), I think in the late seventies.