{"id":20327,"date":"2022-03-19T00:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T04:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=20327"},"modified":"2022-03-28T23:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:11:39","slug":"the-free-times-1534-main-street-2018ish-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=20327","title":{"rendered":"The Free Times, 1534 Main Street: 2018ish (Moved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/03\/p1160456.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/03\/p1160456_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160456_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160456_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/03\/p1160457.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/03\/p1160457_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160457_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160457_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way back in the dark ages when I first started this blog (working by candlelight on a steam-powered computer), I wondered why I wasn't getting any hits or comments.  I figured I would eventually get traffic from <i>Google<\/i> but it wasn't happening, and I felt like I was posting into a black hole.  I finally decided I could either give it up, or take a shot at doing a little advertising.<\/p>\n<p>After poking around on their website for a while, I figured that I could afford a month or so online advertising with <i>The Free Times<\/i>, and looking at their requirements, I came up with this ad:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/03\/closings_new.gif\" title=\"ad\" alt=\"Original ad for Columbiaclosings\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Although I was really dragging (it later turned out I had pneumonia..) I burned it to CDROM, made an appointment and took it down to this office (which was pretty nice).  Things went very smoothly (which was good because I could barely sit up straight), and the ad rep was helpful, looked at the files and got right on it.  The next day, as I recall, the ad went up, and almost immediately I started getting comments (I suspect some were from <i>Free Times<\/i> staff the guy had told about my odd little project).<\/p>\n<p>(It also later developed that I wasn't getting any Google traffic because the default WordPress setting is \"do not allow this blog to be searched\".  Who knew..)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that was the only time I went in this office.  I know that before this location, they were at <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2803\">Sunset Boulevard<\/a> near the Chicken Plant, and that after the <i>Post & Courier<\/i> bought them, they moved to a building on the corner of Gervais & Harden where they are now.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 28 March 2022<\/b> -- Here is their current office at 2101 Gervais Street:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/03\/p1780454.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/03\/p1780454_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1780454_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1780454_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1534+Main+St,+Columbia,+SC+29201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the dark ages when I first started this blog (working by candlelight on a steam-powered computer), I wondered why I wasn't getting any hits or comments. I figured I would eventually get traffic from Google but it wasn't happening, and I felt like I was posting into a black hole. I finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3488,20,730,2455],"class_list":["post-20327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1534-main-street","tag-main-street","tag-media","tag-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327","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=20327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}