{"id":12586,"date":"2017-03-08T23:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2017-03-08T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:44:18","slug":"big-t-bar-b-que-1061-sparkleberry-lane-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12586","title":{"rendered":"Big T Bar-B-Que, 1061 Sparkleberry Lane: February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400351.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400351_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400351_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400351_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400352.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400352_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400352_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400352_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400354.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400354_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400354_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400354_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400355.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400355_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400355_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400355_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400356.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400356_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400356_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400356_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400357.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400357_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400357_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400357_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400358.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400358_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400358_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400358_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400359.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400359_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400359_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400359_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400360.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/03\/p1400360_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400360_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400360_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was unaware of this place, and indeed that Sparkleberry actually had a north-of-two-notch section until commenter JohnBom mentioned it.  It appears that at this point, the Sparkleberry <i>Big T<\/i> location is closed and well on the way to becoming <i>Spring Valley Convenience Store<\/i>.  Indeed, the non-perishables are already being moved in.<\/p>\n<p><i>Big T<\/i> has a second location on Garners Ferry, which is still in operation.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I note that sometime in the 80s, a really good sign salesman must have worked the Northeast: You see this style of sign up and down Two Notch from east of Rabon to Pontiac..<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter JohnBom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was unaware of this place, and indeed that Sparkleberry actually had a north-of-two-notch section until commenter JohnBom mentioned it. It appears that at this point, the Sparkleberry Big T location is closed and well on the way to becoming Spring Valley Convenience Store. Indeed, the non-perishables are already being moved in. Big T has [&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":[2192,38,3,349],"class_list":["post-12586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1061-sparkleberry-lane","tag-barbecue","tag-restaurants","tag-sparkleberry-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586","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=12586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}