{"id":2126,"date":"2010-06-03T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2011-10-19T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:05:49","slug":"rust-business-social-club-918-gervais-street-early-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"Rust Business Social Club, 918 Gervais Street: May 2010 (Open Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/rust01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/rust01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/rust02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/rust02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This place is tucked about a building's length off of Gervais Street, and I was completely unaware of it until commenter Mike D mentioned that it might be closed (and commenter Jeff suggested that the building was for sale).<\/p>\n<p>I haven't verified that with 100% certainty as there was no sign on the door, or other indication of defunct-itude.  However, when I took these pictures, the place was locked tight and it was a Saturday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rustbusinessclub.com\/\">after their posted opening hours<\/a>, so I'm pretty sure it's gone.  (Also, the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.rustbusinessclub.com\/events.asp\">last events mentioned on the \"upcoming\" page<\/a> seem to be Christmas themed).<\/p>\n<p>The web site pitches it as sort of a networking hub for Columbia's upcoming movers & shakers, with a whiskey & cigars subtheme.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Mike D).<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 4 June 2010<\/b>:  Updated closing date in post title to \"May\" based on comments.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 19 Nov 2010<\/b> -- Looks like the place is open again.  They have events scheduled during <i>Vista Lights<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180397.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180397_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 28 March 2011<\/b>:  Apparently it's not actually open to the general public again yet.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 19 October 2011<\/b>:  Ok, now they definitely are open again.  The new web site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RustColumbia.com\">www.RustColumbia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This place is tucked about a building's length off of Gervais Street, and I was completely unaware of it until commenter Mike D mentioned that it might be closed (and commenter Jeff suggested that the building was for sale). I haven't verified that with 100% certainty as there was no sign on the door, or [&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":[193,15,67,194,12,3,195],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cigars","tag-entertainment","tag-gervais-street","tag-networking","tag-nightclub","tag-restaurants","tag-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","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=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}