{"id":10678,"date":"2015-02-18T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10678"},"modified":"2016-08-20T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:25:12","slug":"gilligans-938-north-lake-drive-mid-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10678","title":{"rendered":"Gilligan's, 938 North Lake Drive: Mid-June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220918.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220918_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220918_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220918_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220919.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220919_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220919_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220919_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220921.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220921_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220921_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220921_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220922.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220922_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220922_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220922_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220923.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220923_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220923_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220923_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220924.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220924_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220924_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220924_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220925.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220925_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220925_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220925_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220927.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220927_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220927_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220927_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220928.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220928_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220928_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220928_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220929.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220929_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220929_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220929_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220930.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220930_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220930_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220930_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220932.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220932_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220932_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220932_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220933.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/02\/p1220933_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1220933_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1220933_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Three Hour Cruise..<\/p>\n<p>I'm not too familiar with <i>Gilligan's<\/i>, but I know there was at least one other in Litchfield Beach which closed last year and is now an ABC store.  This one was in Lexingtion on North Lake Drive just east of the <i>Books-A-Million<\/i> strip mall.<\/p>\n<p>I think that clearly this building and the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=183\">Zorba's On Two Notch<\/a> shared the same design.  Whether that means this was originally a <i>Zorba's<\/i> or that they were both originally something else I'm not sure.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter John Barrs)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 24 February 2015<\/b>:  Updated the closing date in the post title based on the comments.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 19 August 2016<\/b> -- This is now <i>Mr. D's Steakhouse<\/i>, now owned by the mayor of Lexington, Steve MacDougall.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/article59154548.html\">Here<\/a> is <i>The State<\/i> story of the restaurant's opening, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/biz-columns-blogs\/shop-around\/article93902162.html\">here<\/a> is <i>The State<\/i> story on MacDougall going from manager to owner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340715.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340715_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1340715_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1340715_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340716.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340716_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1340716_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1340716_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Three Hour Cruise.. I'm not too familiar with Gilligan's, but I know there was at least one other in Litchfield Beach which closed last year and is now an ABC store. This one was in Lexingtion on North Lake Drive just east of the Books-A-Million strip mall. I think that clearly this building and [&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":[1756,389,792,3,94],"class_list":["post-10678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-938-north-lake-drive","tag-lexington","tag-north-lake-drive","tag-restaurants","tag-seafood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678","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=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}