{"id":11811,"date":"2016-08-17T23:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11811"},"modified":"2016-08-17T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T03:11:27","slug":"county-line-pottery-11045-two-notch-road-circa-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11811","title":{"rendered":"County Line Pottery, 11045 Two Notch Road: Circa 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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County Line Pottery<\/i> had been there forever<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Back in the 60s, before I-20 came through, we used to drive to visit my grandparents and other relatives in Hartsville, and the trip would take us down US-1, through, Elgin, Lugoff, & Camden, and there, past some open farmland at the border of Richland County would be County Line Pottery<\/i>.<\/p>\n

My memory is that we only stopped once, and that it was kind of an open-air building at the time, with window frames, but no actual windows. It's possible I may be misremembering that and perhaps the windows were just opened and unscreened given the lack of air conditioning. Anyway, it was an interesting place for a kid to check out, full of figurative cement statuary (I don't remember much actual 'pottery', come to think of it) and knicknacks, something like Taylor's Garden Center<\/a> without all the plants.<\/p>\n

Thereafter, our parents would always note the place for us as we drove by.<\/p>\n

After I-20 came through, we seldom drove that route anymore, and it had been many years since I had seen it when I made it a point to take US-1 to Fayetteville sometimes during the years in the 80s that I lived there (remember, the Interstates were locked in doubke-nickle mode at the time, so it wasn't *that<\/i>* much longer), and the place still looked much as it had in the 60s. In much more recent years, I had made a point to drive to Hartsville the \"old way\" a few times, and was surprised to see the place still largely unchanged (though enclosed).<\/p>\n

I drove out last Sunday because I had a hunch it wouldn't in fact be there forever, and I wanted to get some file pictures, and in the event, I found the place already closed, hopefully through a well deserved retirement though there was no sign on the door. Checking my phonebooks, I see that they must have closed around 2007, which is earlier than I thought, but still a pretty good run.<\/p>\n

I note the address is now given as 11045 Two Notch Road. Back in the day, nobody would have said that; it would just have been \"Out on Highway 1\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2031,279,112,1738,54,286],"class_list":["post-11811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-11045-two-notch-road","tag-elgin","tag-pottery","tag-store","tag-two-notch-road","tag-us-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811","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=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}