{"id":2021,"date":"2010-05-16T23:11:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T04:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2012-02-15T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:20:14","slug":"the-whales-tail-i-26-exit-97-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"The Whale's Tail \/ Rubino&#39;s Italian Restaurant, 11210 Broad River Road (I-26 exit 97): 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/05\/whales_tail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/05\/whales_tail_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/05\/p1120328.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/05\/p1120328_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/05\/p1120329.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/05\/p1120329_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We never ate at <i>The Whale's Tail<\/i> growing up.  I wasn't a big seafood fan (which is to say I refused to eat the stuff), and my parents didn't push the issue too often (in fact we used to go to <i>Oliver's Lodge<\/i> before 5pm because I could get spaghetti before 5 but not after.  (Which really sounds odd to me at this remove, but I'm pretty sure thats right..).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while I never went there, I used to see the billboards from time to time, and I decided to go looking for it today.  The old phonebooks (the above ad is from the 1977 one) never give a real street address for it (it was pretty far out in the boonies back in the day) but I took exit 97 both ways and didn't see anything that looked probable.  There's certainly a lot of new construction in the area, and I suspect the building must have been torn down long ago.  Can anyone confirm or refute that?  The only possible place I saw was <i>Little Pigs<\/i> barbecue which looked to be the right vintage, but I always imagined <i>The Whale's Tail<\/i> as a bigger building.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 27 May 2010<\/b>:  Added shots of <i>Little Pigs<\/i> which turns out to be the old <i>Whale's Tail<\/i> building.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 15 February 2012<\/b>:  The Italian restaurant was <i>Rubino's Italian Restaurant<\/i> and I have added it to the post title along with the full Broad River Road street address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We never ate at The Whale's Tail growing up. I wasn't a big seafood fan (which is to say I refused to eat the stuff), and my parents didn't push the issue too often (in fact we used to go to Oliver's Lodge before 5pm because I could get spaghetti before 5 but not after. [&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":[172,45,5,174,101,3,94,173],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ballantine","tag-broad-river-road","tag-historic","tag-i-26","tag-italian","tag-restaurants","tag-seafood","tag-white-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}