Archive for the ‘Cash-O-Matic’ tag
Cash-O-Matic, 407 Charleston Highway: 2015 no comments
For some reason I thought I had done this Cash-O-Matic just down from the Triangle City Zesto some time ago. In the event it appears not, though I did get to the ones on Broad River Road and Sunset Drive. As nearly as I can tell, this one closed down sometime around 2015.
I admit I still like the name.
Cash-O-Matic, 2739 Broad River Road: 2013 no comments
Here's another Cash-O-Matic, this one in a nice little brick building on Broad River Road next to the old George's Book Exchange.
Unlike a lot of small businesses on Broad, this building was not an old converted house, but I'm not able to guess what it in fact was (since clearly it predates Cash-O-Matic).
I have to say once again, that I really like the name which has a certain rat-pack snap to it.
UPDATE 21 June 2022: Updating tags and adding map icon.
Cash-O-Matic / Sunset Shopping Center, 321 Sunset Drive: 2010 17 comments
This little financial center was in the old A & P shopping center at the top of the hill on Sunset Drive. Most recently the complex was a church, but there remained a few commercial storefronts during that phase. In fact, as far as I can tell, the adjacent beauty parlor is still open for business.
Apart from the old "steeple" style A & P architecture, this part of the plaza is interesting for the skylights which you can see in the fifth picture. Somehow the name Cash-O-Matic invokes the same era as the buildings.
UPDATE 21 June 2022: Updating tags and adding map icon.
UPDATE 27 April 2025: I am adding "Shopping Center" to the post title after "Cash-O-Matic" because the whole place looks to be about to go. I stopped by a week or two ago, and noticed that the building on the right hand end (which I think was last some sort of Dollar General-ish store) has either undergone a partial demolition, or the roof just fell in. Does anyone know if this strip ever had a name? I can't ever recall seeing a roadside sign for the place as a whole.
To answer my own questions, this was Sunset Shopping Center, and the property was bought by a church to build apartments, but the job eventually turned out to be to big for them to handle, so they are now working with a third party developer on the project.
I have changed the "Shopping Center" in the post title to "Sunset Shopping Center"