{"id":122,"date":"2008-07-01T18:48:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T23:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-07-01T18:51:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T23:51:04","slug":"grices-fruit-baskets-huger-street-spring-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Grices Fruit Baskets, Huger Street: Spring 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices07_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/grices08_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Grices<\/i> (their sign doesn't use an apostrophe, so I won't either) was a long established open-air market on Huger (that's \"You-Gee\" for you non-natives) Street downtown betwen Gervais & Blossom.  I visited so few times, and those all when I was a kid, that I confess I'm a little fuzzy on their whole concept, but I think they had produce, some plants and crafty things like grapevine wreaths.  I know my mother liked to stop there from time to time, but I can't really recall anything specific that she bought.<\/p>\n<p>The sign suggests that they thought their main business was \"Fruit Baskets\", but this <i>Columbia Star<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecolumbiastar.net\/news\/2006\/0414\/Business\/060.html\">story<\/a> suggests they were a \"produce, flower and accessory market\".  The story also establishes that they closed in 2006; I would have put the date lots earlier.  I guess it goes to show \"out of sight, out of mind\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grices (their sign doesn't use an apostrophe, so I won't either) was a long established open-air market on Huger (that's \"You-Gee\" for you non-natives) Street downtown betwen Gervais &#038; Blossom. I visited so few times, and those all when I was a kid, that I confess I'm a little fuzzy on their whole concept, but [&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-122","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\/122","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=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}