{"id":16892,"date":"2020-02-26T23:38:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T04:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16892"},"modified":"2020-02-26T23:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T04:38:34","slug":"freebird-lounge-us-17-georgetown-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16892","title":{"rendered":"Freebird Lounge, US-17 Georgetown: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510123.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510123_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1510123_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1510123_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510124.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510124_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1510124_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1510124_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510125.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510125_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1510125_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1510125_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510126.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510126_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1510126_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1510126_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510127.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1510127_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1510127_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1510127_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don't know much about the <i>Freebird Lounge<\/i> other than it occupied a very distinctive building on the east side of US-17 south of the Sampit river bridge in Georgetown.  I would often note it as I drove to Charleston.  In the years when the signage was still up, there always seemed to be a table lamp visible through an upstairs window at night.<\/p>\n<p>The lounge has been closed for some years -- I'm going to say since sometime in the 90s, and I noticed last year that the building itself was for sale.  I haven't driven that way in a while, so I can't say what the current status is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don't know much about the Freebird Lounge other than it occupied a very distinctive building on the east side of US-17 south of the Sampit river bridge in Georgetown. I would often note it as I drove to Charleston. In the years when the signage was still up, there always seemed to be a [&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":[331,6,2133,16,58],"class_list":["post-16892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-georgetown","tag-grand-strand","tag-nightclubs","tag-out-of-area","tag-us-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16892","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=16892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}