{"id":1448,"date":"2010-02-20T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T06:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2010-03-03T02:34:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T07:34:47","slug":"the-great-train-store-columbiana-centre-july-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"The Great Train Store \/ All Wound Up, Columbiana Centre: July 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/great_train_store05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Except for the last one, which I took today, these pictures come from commenter Thomas who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWas going through my photos and I had a few more I wanted to send you.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Train Store: open 11\/1996-7\/2000.<\/p>\n<p>I worked there from the opening to the closing of the store. It was a great place to work.  Ten years later many of the employees still keep in regular touch with each other.<\/p>\n<p>As a store the Columbia store (Store 30) was very successful.  The store closed as a result of the failure of the company as a whole.  At its largest the Great Train Store had more than 56 stores including SC stores in Columbia, Myrtle Beach, and Greenville.  The store was located in Columbania Center where Build a Bear is now.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia store was the second to last store in the chain to close.  The Myrtle Beach store (at Broadway at the Beach) closed a week later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except for the last one, which I took today, these pictures come from commenter Thomas who writes: Was going through my photos and I had a few more I wanted to send you. The Great Train Store: open 11\/1996-7\/2000. I worked there from the opening to the closing of the store. It was a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}