Archive for the ‘parking’ tag
Carolina Coliseum Northside Parking Lot, 701 Assembly Street: 2012 4 comments
Commenter Midnight Rambler sent these photos (some time ago) from 18 November 2011 saying:
For those who camped out for concert tickets, these pictures bring back
memories. I took them in Nov. 2011 knowing the new business building would be going there.
This parking lot faced the North side of the Coliseum, fronting on Greene Street and was built over by the new Darla Moore School Of Business around 2012.
(Hat tip to commenter Midnight Rambler)
NBSC / Synovus, 1311 Pendleton Street: 29 May 2020 5 comments
This old Synovus branch at the corner of Sumter & Pendleton Streets really never made an impression on me. I'm sure I couldn't have told you it was there had you asked, and the building dates to 1972, so I would have walked by there many times while I was on campus.
My phonebooks aren't really helping me to say when it closed, but obviously long enough ago that it's already looking a bit dingy, and the lot has already been rented out for parking.
You can see it with the NBSC branding still up in this LoopNet listing.
UPDATE 25 August 2020: I forgot to put a date on the post title. Since the NBSC ==> Synovus reflagging happened in 2018, I'm going with that.
(Hat tip to commenter Dan R.)
UPDATE 4 February 2021 -- I went by the drive-through window, and a definite closing date was posted there, so I have updated the post title date from "2018" to "29 May 2020":
Also adding the map icon.
Dirt Parking at the State Fair, Fairgrounds: 2008 2 comments
I suppose it's a silly thing to get pre-nostalgic about, but to me as a child, a big part of the adventure of going to the State Fair was the getting there. The first years I can remember, my father decided that he didn't want to face the hassle of fair traffic and parking fees, so we would catch the SCE&G Fairgrounds bus at, I believe, the corner of Main & Blossom. These were the only times we rode the bus as kids, and it was very exciting!
Later, I think my mother was less than thrilled at riding the bus and we started to drive, but it was still an adventure -- sort of an imperfectly organized chaos where you followed a bunch of cars, hoped you were in the right lane, and then tried to figure out which guy waving a flashlight you were supposed to follow as they invented a parking lot on the fly. Of course if it were dry, the dust would be flying everywhere, and if it had been wet, it was a long slog through the mud, but it never really occurred to me that the Fair should have anything other than a dirt/grass lot.
As you can tell from the pictures though, that's about to end. It appears that next year, we will have a "real" parking lot at the Fairgrounds. Oh well, as long as they still have the rocket and the handwriting analysis computer, my childhood won't be totally gone!
