{"id":17520,"date":"2020-07-24T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17520"},"modified":"2020-10-08T23:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T03:51:25","slug":"uptown-1204-main-street-summer-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17520","title":{"rendered":"Uptown, 1204 Main Street: Summer 2020 (Open Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Uptown<\/i> gifts was the follow-on operation in this storefront to the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=91\">Capitol Newsstand<\/a> where I made many finds back in the pre-internet age.<\/p>\n<p>I had thought they set up shop in 2011, but based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/business\/columbias-uptown-on-main-gift-shop-closing-after-12-years\/article_858b65d8-a993-11ea-bf1f-3ba6e9091692.html\">this ColaDaily story<\/a>, they must have moved in very shortly after <i>Capitol<\/i> closed.  I never had the occasion to visit this store, but I did like the cityscape logo.<\/p>\n<p>According to the linked story, they first shut down due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> mess, and then decided to just move on.<\/p>\n<p>This makes two vacancies on the east side of this block, as there is still no action in the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14659\">Persona<\/a> location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190869.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190869_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1650627.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1650627_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1650627_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1650627_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1650628.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1650628_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1650628_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1650628_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1650630.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1650630_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1650630_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1650630_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Justin)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 8 October 2020<\/b> -- As reported in the comments and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/business\/uptown-gifts-on-main-to-reopen-under-new-ownership\/article_09f7412a-e6fc-11ea-9d3a-aff720f34683.html\">ColaDaily<\/a>, <i>Uptown<\/i> is open again under new ownership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670157.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670157_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670157_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670157_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670158.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670158_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670158_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670158_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1204+Main+St,+Columbia,+SC+29201\/\" 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>Uptown gifts was the follow-on operation in this storefront to the venerable Capitol Newsstand where I made many finds back in the pre-internet age. I had thought they set up shop in 2011, but based on this ColaDaily story, they must have moved in very shortly after Capitol closed. I never had the occasion to [&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":[3059,3005,510,20,4],"class_list":["post-17520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1204-main-street","tag-covid-19","tag-gifts","tag-main-street","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520","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=17520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}