{"id":15489,"date":"2019-03-19T23:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2020-04-06T00:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T04:19:53","slug":"portfolio-art-gallery-512-saluda-avenue-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15489","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio Art Gallery, 512 Saluda Avenue: February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1080954.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1080954_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080954_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080954_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1080955.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1080955_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080955_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080955_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1570748.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1570748_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1570748_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1570748_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1570751.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/03\/p1570751_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1570751_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1570751_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did not realize until I googled <i>Portfolio<\/i> that these pictures are of the back side of the gallery: 2007 Devine Street.  I'll have to get some pictures of the main entrance next time I am in the area.<\/p>\n<p>I am always nervous to go into commercial art galleries because I know that although I like art a good bit, there is approximately a zero percent chance that I will buy another painting I have no place to hang.  I am particularly afraid of being the only potential customer in the store and having to dissapoint the owner.  Of course there are a lot of topics like this that I'm neurotic about.  So anyway, I never went into <i>Portfolio<\/i> but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article224519525.html\">The State<\/a> story on the closing makes it sound quite an interesting place which had been there since 1980.  The owner is going on to a well deserved retirement.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Summer)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 6 April 2020<\/b> -- Here's one more picture, from 1 February 2015:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tednolan.net\/pix\/15-02-01-five-points\/15-02-01-five-points.hi\/p1220680.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tednolan.net\/pix\/15-02-01-five-points\/15-02-01-five-points.low\/p1220680.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2007+Devine+St,+Columbia,+SC+29205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not realize until I googled Portfolio that these pictures are of the back side of the gallery: 2007 Devine Street. I'll have to get some pictures of the main entrance next time I am in the area. I am always nervous to go into commercial art galleries because I know that although I [&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":[2743,2742,340,111,123,367,619,4],"class_list":["post-15489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2007-devine-street","tag-512-saluda-avenue","tag-art","tag-devine-street","tag-five-points","tag-gallery","tag-saluda-avenue","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489","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=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}