{"id":115,"date":"2008-06-22T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-05-04T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T05:57:17","slug":"capitol-loan-main-street-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Loan Office, 1214 Main Street: 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan07_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan08_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/capitol_loan09_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At one time, downtown had a lot of pawn shops.  I seem to recall several on Assembly Street. There are fewer nowdays.  Some of them got re-developed, and I think some of them got out-competed by shops in more logical places like Decker Boulevard.  I never went into one until I was in my 40s.  Though I can't recall either of my parents ever saying anything against pawn shops, I just always had the feeling growing up that they were sort of places of ill-repute.  Perhaps that's because the classic n'er-do-well <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Capp\">Andy Capp<\/a> was the only character I associated with the shops.<\/p>\n<p>I believe this shop on Main closed at about the same time as the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=112\">Capitol Restaurant<\/a> and that <i>First Citizen's<\/i> is supposed to do something with the property someday.  Maybe they'll open it back up.  I should think pawn-shopery is a lot less risky than mortgage lending..<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 4 May 2010<\/b>:  Added full street address to post title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one time, downtown had a lot of pawn shops. I seem to recall several on Assembly Street. There are fewer nowdays. Some of them got re-developed, and I think some of them got out-competed by shops in more logical places like Decker Boulevard. I never went into one until I was in my 40s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","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=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}