{"id":10641,"date":"2015-03-05T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10641"},"modified":"2015-11-03T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T04:35:42","slug":"radio-shack-5496-forest-drive-suite-g-late-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10641","title":{"rendered":"Radio Shack, 5496 Forest Drive Suite G: Late February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230108.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230108_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1230108_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1230108_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230104.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230104_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1230104_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1230104_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230105.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230105_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1230105_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1230105_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230106_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1230106_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1230106_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230107.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/p1230107_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1230107_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1230107_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another day, another <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=radio-shack\"><b style=\"color:#000;background:#ffff66\">Radio<\/b> <b style=\"color:#000;background:#66ffff\">Shack<\/b><\/a>. <i>Sic transit gloria mundi<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This one is in the <i>Wal Mart<\/i> plaza at Forest &amp; I-77, and is I believe the same operating unit that was originally in a free-standing building near the current Forest Drive <i>Rite Aid<\/i> and then in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=trenholm-plaza\">Trenholm Plaza<\/a>.  If so, this is the <i><b style=\"color:#000;background:#ffff66\">Radio<\/b> <b style=\"color:#000;background:#66ffff\">Shack<\/b><\/i> that I historically cut my teeth at.  I used to take tubes to be tested at the freestanding location all the time, and bought (or talked my parents into buying) a number of hobby kits there.  Later, I was a member of the <i>Battery Of The Month<\/i> club at the Trenholm Plaza location, and got what I call my \"lucky\" screwdrivers as a free BOTM gift there.  ('Lucky' in that I've had them for over 30 years now, and have never lost or broken them -- yet).  I remember I used to manage my BOTM days so that I could get one battery on the last day of a month, and then the next day, get another on the first day of the next month.  [This was important since, a) it always took at least two batteries to do anything, and b) I never had any money]<\/p>\n<p>I don't believe I ever actually went into this store after it moved to the current location.  By that time, I was living out of town, had enough money to buy batteries, and had bid adieu to vacuum tubes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/lucky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/03\/lucky_tn.jpg\" title=\"lucky_tn.jpg\" alt=\"lucky_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Andrew)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Radio Shack. Sic transit gloria mundi. This one is in the Wal Mart plaza at Forest &amp; I-77, and is I believe the same operating unit that was originally in a free-standing building near the current Forest Drive Rite Aid and then in Trenholm Plaza. If so, this is the Radio Shack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1742,1743,81,269,96,1736,4,31],"class_list":["post-10641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-5496-forest-drive","tag-east-forest-plaza","tag-electronics","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-radio-shack","tag-stores","tag-trenholm-plaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}