{"id":1833,"date":"2010-04-18T23:53:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2010-07-07T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T03:57:04","slug":"scorpio-massage-salon-2210-rosewood-drive-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Scorpio Massage Salon, 2210 Rosewood Drive: 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/scorpio_massage_salon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/scorpio_massage_salon_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cbx02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cbx02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a \"massage salon\" is open until 3AM, one suspects that the massages offered are very <i>thorough<\/i>.  Certainly the late 70s (this ad is from the 1977 Southern Bell phonebook) seem to have been sort of a peak for such.  Since then, this building on the south side or Rosewood just west of <i>Pizza Man<\/i> (and which was pretty clearly originally built as a home) has been a number of things.  In particular I recall a record store, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.sc.gov\/tasks\/sites\/coc\/assets\/File\/Dev_Services\/Minutes\/BoZA\/BOZA_1998_11_10_minutes.pdf\">a 1998 zoning board meeting<\/a> characterizes as selling mostly religious CDs, and at present (though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exitrec.com\/homes\/2015086\/SC\/Columbia\/2210-Rosewood-Drive-29205\/\">currently it is for sale at $325,000<\/a>) it houses a recording studio which seems to have a number of telephone sidelines,  so -- to reuse a bad joke, you can still reach out and touch someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a \"massage salon\" is open until 3AM, one suspects that the massages offered are very thorough. Certainly the late 70s (this ad is from the 1977 Southern Bell phonebook) seem to have been sort of a peak for such. Since then, this building on the south side or Rosewood just west of Pizza Man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,5,65,239,108],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-historic","tag-massage","tag-risque-columbia","tag-rosewood-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","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=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}