{"id":10823,"date":"2015-11-20T01:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10823"},"modified":"2017-04-06T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:18:24","slug":"whites-auto-services-1614-alta-vista-drive-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10823","title":{"rendered":"White's Auto Services, 1614 Alta Vista Drive: 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280097.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280097_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1280097_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1280097_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280099.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280099_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1280099_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1280099_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280100.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280100_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1280100_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1280100_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280101_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1280101_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1280101_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280102.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280102_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1280102_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1280102_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280106_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1280106_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1280106_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I'm not sure when this garage on Alta Vista closed as I can't find it in any of my recent phonebooks under the name on the sign, but I think I would have noticed it before if it were too long ago, so I'm going to say 2015 until someone says different.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I never knew the name of this little uphill street which connects Fontaine Road to Shakespeare Road.  <i>Alta Vista<\/i> was the first really useful Internet search engine, put together by the now defunct <i>Digital Equipment Corporation<\/i> (DEC) to showcase their 64 bit <i>Alpha<\/i> chip.  It was very successful, but DEC got into trouble by never fully realizing that the mini-computer was dead and that the PC was a commodity item and went belly up.  For some reason, nobody bought the <i>Alta Vista<\/i> technology (that I am aware of) and the crown passed to <i>Google<\/i> where it still remains..<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 6 April 2017<\/b> -- Now <i>Royal Automotive<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/04\/p1410042.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/04\/p1410042_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410042_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410042_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/04\/p1410043.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/04\/p1410043_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410043_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410043_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm not sure when this garage on Alta Vista closed as I can't find it in any of my recent phonebooks under the name on the sign, but I think I would have noticed it before if it were too long ago, so I'm going to say 2015 until someone says different. As a side [&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":[1795,1796,13,104,912],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1614-alta-vista-drive","tag-alta-vista-drive","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-garage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","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=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}