{"id":129,"date":"2008-07-10T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=129"},"modified":"2018-08-10T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T03:53:09","slug":"putt-putt-fun-center-clemson-road-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Putt-Putt Fun Center, 105 Sparkleberry Lane (near Clemson Road): 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well it seems I always get around to taking pictures of Putt-Putt<\/i> locations too late<\/a>. This location on Clemson Road only lasted a few years, and was completely torn up before I got around to going out there.<\/p>\n

If I recall correctly, they had a go-kart track which was out in the area with the fire-extinguishers on the light poles. I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the actual \"building\" part of the \"fun center\" might still be standing. There is a building in the back of the area which now seems to be a welding school, but the shape of the back of it makes me think it might have been designed for a lot of in-and-out traffic to the golf course and race track.<\/p>\n

It looks like we are to get another Interstate hotel here, which is kind of a shame, as Columbia has lots of hotels, but at this point, no minature golf courses. Or am I wrong about that? Come to think about it, the only actual working \"Putt Putt\" brand course I can think of is this one at the base of Atlantic Avenue in Fernandina Beach:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 25 June 2010<\/b>: Added full street address to post title. The place was actualy officially on Sparkleberry Lane, not Clemson Road as I had thought.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 19 March 2013<\/b>: Well, for whatever reason, the Wingate Inn<\/i> never happened, and now, 5 years later, the parcel is still for sale:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 9 August 2017<\/b> -- It looks like this parcel has finally, for real this time, been sold to be the new home for nearby Frank's Carwash<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 10 August 2018<\/b> -- Now the site of the new location for Frank's Car Wash<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Well it seems I always get around to taking pictures of Putt-Putt locations too late. This location on Clemson Road only lasted a few years, and was completely torn up before I got around to going out there. If I recall correctly, they had a go-kart track which was out in the area with the […]<\/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":[2312,218,8,136,100,5,229,1052,134,349],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-105-sparkleberry-lane","tag-amusement-park","tag-attraction","tag-clemson-road","tag-golf","tag-historic","tag-i-20","tag-minature-golf","tag-sparkleberry-crossing","tag-sparkleberry-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}