{"id":21173,"date":"2022-11-17T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21173"},"modified":"2022-11-17T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T04:17:10","slug":"the-sandy-monkey-3034-us-17-business-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21173","title":{"rendered":"The Sandy Monkey, 3034 US 17 Business: 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/11\/p1410705.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/11\/p1410705_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410705_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410705_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/11\/p1410706.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/11\/p1410706_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410706_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410706_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/11\/p1410707.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/11\/p1410707_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410707_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410707_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Sandy Monkey<\/i> was in <a href=\"\">Murrells Inlet<\/a> (or possibly <i>Garden City<\/i> depending on what you go by) in a small plaza next to the now razed <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12911\">Jungle Lake Golf<\/a>.  At one time there were at least three businesses in this area, including a little walk-up hut-style operation which seemed to change names and cusines every few years.  I seem to remember a coin laundry in the strip as well at one time.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I ate in the building once when it was an Italian operation, and was not impressed enough to go back.  The pictures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/sandy-monkey-garden-city\">their Yelp page<\/a> suggest that <i>The Sandy Monkey<\/i> set up here in 1990, and the reviews, Yelp & otherwise, suggest that while it had its partisans, the non-regulars were not impressed.  The whole plaza has been razed now, which is a bit surprising as you would think that meant they had a plan going forward, but it's been a number of years now since this building and the golf operation were gone and the area is still vacant.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesandymonkey\/\">Facebook<\/a> is still up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3034+US-17+BUS,+Murrells+Inlet,+SC+29576\/\" 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>The Sandy Monkey was in Murrells Inlet (or possibly Garden City depending on what you go by) in a small plaza next to the now razed Jungle Lake Golf. At one time there were at least three businesses in this area, including a little walk-up hut-style operation which seemed to change names and cusines every [&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":[3633,2076,6,283,16,58],"class_list":["post-21173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-3034-us-17-business","tag-bars","tag-grand-strand","tag-murrells-inlet","tag-out-of-area","tag-us-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21173","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=21173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}