{"id":1476,"date":"2010-02-26T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2012-02-04T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T05:40:33","slug":"columbia-drill-tower-park-street-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Drill Tower, Park Street: 1980s(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I'm pretty sure this Park Street structure, in the first block south of Gervais Street, was a rescue practice tower for the Columbia Fire Department.<\/p>\n

The original signage has been stripped from the stone, but after trying a few random things in gimp, I got this transform where you can almost<\/i> read the letters:<\/p>\n

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I'm pretty sure it says \"Columbia Drill Tower\", but the first 'L' looks different from the second 'L' for some reason.<\/p>\n

At any rate, if it's not a Fire Department burning building rescue mock up, I can't think what it possibly could<\/i> be.<\/p>\n

The structure is obviously not used now. I wonder if it just got too out of date? There are not a whole lot of buildings with fire escapes around anymore to rescue people from.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 4 February 2012<\/b>: Apparently the plan to repurpose the old firestation to which this tower belonged is not going well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[256,18,5,9,787,195],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congaree-vista","tag-government","tag-historic","tag-landmark","tag-park-street","tag-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","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=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}